Wa `alaykum as-salamu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Thank you for your good question.

In fact, birthdays celebrations fall under the category of customs that are permissible in principle provided that there is nothing haram(unlawful) is associated with it. Therefore, it is OK for people to celebrate their or  their kids’ birthdays through permissible means.

Birthdays are not called “`Eids”; no prayers or rituals are connected to them. So, there is no conflict between celebrating birthdays in permissible ways and the hadith: “When the Prophet arrived in Madinah, he found people celebrating two specific days in which they used to entertain themselves with recreation and merriment. He asked them about the nature of these festivities at which they replied that these days were occasions of fun and recreation. At this, the Prophet remarked that the Almighty has fixed two days [of festivity] instead of these for you which are better than these: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.” (Abu Dawud and An-Nasa’i).

The above view is supported by some Fatwa councils and contemporary scholars including the Egyptian House of Fatwa and late Sh. Faysal Mawalwi.

May Allah accept your and our good deeds, ameen.

Allah Almighty knows best.