Abu Hurairah reported the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: The vilest names in Allah’s sight on the Day of resurrection will be that of a man called Malik al-Amlak. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been transmitted by Shuaib bin Abi Hamzah from Abi al-Zinad through different chain of narrators. This version has the words akhna' ismin (most obscene name) instead of akhna ismin (the vilest name).
Read More..Narrated Abu Jubayrah ibn ad-Dahhak: This verse was revealed about us, the Banu Salimah: Nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness (to be used of one) after he has believed. He said: When the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم came to us, every one of us had two or three names. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم began to say: O so and so! But they would say: Keep silence, Messenger of Allah! He becomes angry by this name. So this verse was revealed: Nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames.
Read More..Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab: Zayd ibn Aslam quoted his father as saying: Umar ibn al-Khattab (Allah be pleased with him) struck one of his sons who was given the kunyah Abu Isa, and al-Mughirah ibn Shubah had the kunyah Abu Isa. Umar said to him: Is it not sufficient for you that you are called by the kunyah Abu Abdullah? He replied: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم gave me this kunyah. Thereupon he said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was forgiven all his sins, past and those followed. But we are among the people similar to us. Henceforth he was called by the kunyah Abu Abdullah until he died.
Read More..Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said to him: My sonny. Abu Dawud said: I heard Yahya bin Main praising the transmitter Muhammad bin Mahbub, and he said: He transmitted a large number of traditions.
Read More..Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Call yourselves by my name, but do not use my KUNYAH (surname). Abu Dawud said: Abu Salih has transmitted it in a similar way from Abu Hurairah, and similar are the traditions of Abu Sufyan from Jabir, of Salim bin Abl al-Ja’d from Jabir, of Sulaiman al-Yashkuri from Jabir, and of Ibn al-Munkadir from Jabir and similar others and Anas bin Malik.
Read More..Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: If anyone is called by my name, he must not be given my kunyah (surname), and if anyone uses my kunyah (surname), he must not be called by my name. Abu Dawud said: Ibn 'Ajlan transmitted it to the same effect from his father on the authority if Abu Hurairah. It has also been transmitted by Abu Zar'ah from Abu Hurairah in two different versions. And similar is the version of Abdur-Rahman bin Abi Amrah from Abu Hurairah. This version is disputed: Al-Thawri and Ibn Juraij transmitted it according to the version of Abu al-Zubair; and Maqil bin Ubaid Allah transmitted it according to the version of Ibn Sirin. It is again dispted on Musa bin Yasar from Abu Hurariah, transmitting it in two versions: Hammad bin Khalid and Ibn Abi Fudaik varied in their versions.
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