S02 - Family - The messenger ﷺ: “Name your children after good people”

Yusuf Circle Sheffield

Family (S2) The messenger ﷺ: “Name your children after good people”. He (ﷺ) instructed a companion رضي الله عنه to name his son ‘Hamza’. Hamza رضي الله عنه was the messengers’s most beloved uncle. Talha رضي الله عنه named his sons after prophets (a.s) [Muhammad, Ibraaheem, Musa], Zubayr رضي الله عنه named his sons after martyrs: [Urwa, Abdullah, Hamza]. Your name has an effect on who you are! Saeed Ibn al-Musayib’s (r.h) [the most learned of the Tabi’een] grandfather had a negative name, meaning: “grief“. Saeed said due to this he himself had a flaw in his character! The messenger ﷺ instructed us to name foetuses in miscarriages; for they will be heavy on the scales on the Day of judgment! The messenger ﷺ: “Do not name your children after angels (a.s)”. If one has name with bad meaning, he or she must strive to change it immediately - as the messenger ﷺ did. He ﷺ once met an elderly woman whose name meant ‘Nightmare’. He ﷺ told her to change it immediately.