سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
كتاب الأدبGeneral Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
باب فِي تَغْيِيرِ الاِسْمِ الْقَبِيحِChapter: Changing bad names.
Hadith 4960
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ , حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ ، عَنْ الْأَعْمَشِ ، عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " إِنْ عِشْتُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْهَى أُمَّتِي أَنْ يُسَمُّوا نَافِعًا ، وَأَفْلَحَ ، وَبَرَكَةَ " , قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ : وَلَا أَدْرِي ذَكَرَ نَافِعًا أَمْ لَا ، فَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ يَقُولُ : إِذَا جَاءَ أَثَمَّ بَرَكَةُ ؟ , فَيَقُولُونَ : لَا , قَالَ أبو داود : رَوَى أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، نَحْوَهُ لَمْ يَذْكُرْ بَرَكَةَ .
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Prophet ﷺ said: If I survive (God willing), I shall forbid my people to give the names Nafi (beneficial), Aflah (successful) and Barakah (blessing). Al-Amash said: I do not know whether he mentioned Nafi or not. When a man comes and asks: Is there Barakah (blessing)? The people say: No. Abu Dawud said: A similar tradition has been transmitted by Abu al-Zubair on the authority of Jabir from the Prophet ﷺ through a different chain of narrators. This version has no mention of Barakah.
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Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
One should specifically avoid the aforementioned names.
And it is mentioned in Sahih Muslim that later the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) remained silent about this.
(Sahih Muslim, Al-Adab, Chapter: Dislike of Naming with Certain Names and with Nafi’ and the Like, Hadith: 2138)
One should specifically avoid the aforementioned names.
And it is mentioned in Sahih Muslim that later the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) remained silent about this.
(Sahih Muslim, Al-Adab, Chapter: Dislike of Naming with Certain Names and with Nafi’ and the Like, Hadith: 2138)
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 4960
Shaykh Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi
Hadith Commentary:
Benefits and Issues:
The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) forbade these names while observing etiquette and respect.
Then, from a legal and jurisprudential perspective, he intended to prohibit them.
However, this intention was not put into practice, nor was a definitive order issued to prohibit them,
until he departed from this transient world.
Benefits and Issues:
The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) forbade these names while observing etiquette and respect.
Then, from a legal and jurisprudential perspective, he intended to prohibit them.
However, this intention was not put into practice, nor was a definitive order issued to prohibit them,
until he departed from this transient world.
Source: Tuhfat al-Muslim: Commentary on Sahih Muslim, Page: 5603
