What is the religious status of the child of Magians (Zoroastrians) whose parents claim the child as Muslim, and the child dies in infancy?

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Al-Mughni

Book of Jizya

Book 55 · Issue 3 · Bab 1

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The child who dies at the age of five, despite the Magian parents' claim of Islam, must be buried in the Muslims' cemeteries. This is based on the Prophet's saying: "His parents either make him Jewish, Christian, or Magian," implying that since these parents did not establish the latter state upon the child, the child remains upon the innate disposition (*fitra*).