Comparative Approach concerning the Islamic Countries

Proving the lineage of a child to each of his/her parents is one of the most important rights of the child, since it gives rise to possession of a personal identity, prevention of mixing of lineages, and damage to their rights.
Nowadays, one of the best ways to prove lineage is birth registration, getting an identity card, and personal status documents.
The main question of the article is whether it is possible to deduce the need to register a birth canonically based on jurisprudential principles.
From evidence drawn from canonical sources, such as Quranic verses, narrations of Ahl al-Bayt (AS) and the conduct and practice of the wise, the need to register a birth in registry offices can be deduced. However, in spite of the fact that they accept the principle of the need to register births, certain jurists have challenged the need to register a birth in registry offices on a canonical base.
According to Article 993 of the Civil Code and Articles 12, 13 and 16 of the Civil Registration Act, birth registration is a legal obligation and the legislator has provided a guarantee for it on the grounds of the necessity and importance of the issue.
In this article, we will examine the importance and reasons for the need to register births in Imami jurisprudence with a comparative approach to the law of some Islamic countries.