Assalamu’alaikum Wa Rahmatullah e Wa Barakatuhu, While celebrate my muslim friend his Birthday and I told him that this will be not allowed in Islam, he was asked me that where it was mentioned in Quran and Hadith, kindly provide me if any in Quran and Hadith with regarding Birthday otherwise please explain in detail.
Answer
(Fatwa: 923/923=M/1429)
The custom of celebrating birthday has been invented by the Europeans. There is no room in Islam for such nonsense. The Hadith says: من تشبہ بقوم فھو منھم (One will be counted among those whose resemblance he adopts). Whose birthday is greater than that of the Prophet (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم)? but the Prophet (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم) did neither celebrate his birthday nor he ordered the same. Celebrating birthday is not proved by the Sahaba, their successors and pious people of Ummah.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband