Muwatta Malik (Yahya) 1781 — What Names are Disliked

Yahya ibn Sa'id narrated that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked a man: "What is your name?" He replied: "Jamrah (ember)." He asked: "Your father's name?" He said: "Shihab (flame)." He asked: "Where do you live?" He said: "In Harrat al-Nar (the lava field of fire)." He asked: "In which area?" He said: "Dhat Laza (the place of blazing fire)." (All these names also mean flames and burning fire.) Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Go and check on your people; they have all been burned." The narrator said: When that man went, he found the situation exactly as Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) had said (i.e., they had all been burned).