It is recommended that one should choose a good name, for it has been narrated from the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) that he said: "You will be called on the Day of Resurrection by your names and your fathers' names, so make your names good." (10) He (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) also said: "The most beloved names to Allah (11) are Abdullah and Abd al-Rahman." This is an authentic (sahih) hadith. (12) It was narrated from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib that he said: The most beloved names to Allah the Almighty are the names of the Prophets. The Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: "Name yourselves with my name, but do not take my kunyah (agnomen)." (14) In one version: "Do not combine my name with my kunyah." (15)
Section: It is disliked to smear the child's head with blood. This was considered disliked by Ahmad, al-Zuhri, Malik, al-Shafi'i, and Ibn al-Mundhir. It was narrated from al-Hasan and Qatadah that it is recommended, due to what was narrated in the hadith of Samurah, that the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: "The boy is held in pledge by his aqiqah; it is slaughtered on his behalf on the seventh day, and he is smeared with blood (yudma)." (16) Recorded by Hammam, from Qatadah, from al-Hasan, from Samurah. Ibn Abd al-Barr said: I do not know of anyone who said this except al-Hasan and Qatadah, and the rest of the scholars rejected it and considered it disliked because the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace)
(10) Recorded by Abu Dawud, in: Chapter on changing names, from the Book of Etiquette. Sunan Abi Dawud 2/584. And al-Darimi, in: Chapter on good names, from the Book of Asking Permission. Sunan al-Darimi 2/294. And Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 5/194. (11) Not in M. (12) Recorded by Muslim, in: Chapter on the prohibition of taking the kunyah of Abu al-Qasim..., from the Book of Etiquette. Sahih Muslim 3/1682. And al-Tirmidhi, in: Chapter on what has been narrated regarding recommended names, from the chapters on Etiquette. Aridat al-Ahwadhi 10/275. And Ibn Majah, in: Chapter on what is recommended of names, from the Book of Etiquette. Sunan Ibn Majah 2/1229. And al-Darimi, in: Chapter on what is recommended of names, from the Book of Asking Permission. Sunan al-Darimi 2/294. And Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 2/24, 128. (13) In the original and A: "Sammu" (Name yourselves). (14) Recorded by al-Bukhari, in: Chapter on the sin of one who lies against the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), from the Book of Knowledge, and in: Chapter on the kunyah of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), from the Book of Merits, and in: Chapter on the statement of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace): "Name yourselves with my name but do not take my kunyah", and Chapter on whoever is named with the names of the Prophets, from the Book of Etiquette. Sahih al-Bukhari 1/38, 4/226, 8/53, 54. And Muslim, in: Chapter on the prohibition of taking the kunyah of Abu al-Qasim..., from the Book of Etiquette. Sahih Muslim 3/1682, 1683. And Ibn Majah, in: Chapter on combining the name of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) and his kunyah, from the Book of Etiquette. Sunan Ibn Majah 2/1230, 1231. And al-Darimi, in: Chapter on "Name yourselves with my name and do not take my kunyah", from the Book of Asking Permission. Sunan al-Darimi 2/942. (15) In M: "and between my kunyah". This version was recorded by Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 5/364. (16) The exit path (takhrij) of the hadith of Samurah has preceded on page 394. (17) In B: "And because".
