Yusaf claims that Little Scholars Nursery, in Broughty Ferry near Dundee, rejected three applications for children with Muslim names but those with "white Scottish-sounding names" were accepted.
The politician and his wife have called on the Care Inspectorate to carry out an investigation over the claims which the nursery “strenuously denies”.
Owners of the setting say they would “welcome” such an investigation.
The allegations were first reported by the Scottish Daily Record which was contacted by Yusaf after his daughter Amal had been rejected twice by the nursery.
Writing on Twitter, the Scottish Health Secretary said: “After our nursery application for our daughter was refused a second time, my wife asked her white Scottish friend to put in an application for a child the same age.
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