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Sahih al-Bukhari 3538

The Kunya of the Prophet ﷺ

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ سَالِمٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ ؓ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ

تَسَمَّوْا بِاسْمِي وَلاَ تَكْتَنُوا بِكُنْيَتِي

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Kathīr
  2. Shuʿbah
  3. Manṣūr
  4. Sālim
  5. Jābir
  6. al-Nabī ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Name yourselves after me, but do not call yourselves by my Kuniya."

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Narrators

  1. Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. Trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) frequentlyd. 99 AH, Muṭayyan said: 100 AH, also said: 101 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 97 AH or 98 AH, and Ibn Ḥibbān said likewise in al-Thiqāt
    سَالِمٍثقة وكان يرسل كثيرا
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
    مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    أخبرنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah); those who declared him weak were not correct.d. 223 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍثقة ، لم يصب من ضعفه
    حدثنا
  6. a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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