سنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Majah
كتاب الأدبChapters on Etiquette
بَابُ : مَا يُكْرَهُ مِنَ الأَسْمَاءِChapter: Names that are disliked
Hadith 3729
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ , حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ , حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ , عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ , عَنْ جَابِرٍ , عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ , قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " لَئِنْ عِشْتُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ , لَأَنْهَيَنَّ أَنْ يُسَمَّى رَبَاحٌ , وَنَجِيحٌ , وَأَفْلَحُ , وَنَافِعٌ , وَيَسَارٌ " .
´It was narrated from 'Umar ibn Al-Khattab that the Prophet(ﷺ) said:` "If I live- if Allah wills - I will forbid the names Rabah(profit), Najih(saved), Aflah (Successful), Nafi (beneficial) and Yasar(prosperity)."
Related hadith on this topic
Explanation & Benefits
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
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
