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Prophet of Allah,(PBUH)chose names with good meanings
Sahl ibn Sa’d (a Companion) reported that Al-Munthir ibn Abu Usayd
(a Companion) was brought to the Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alay- hi wa sallam, at the time of his birth. The Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, placed him on his thigh and Abu Usayd (a Companion) kept sitting there. The Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, had been occupied with something else before him. Abu Usayd commanded his child to be lifted from the lap of the Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and so he was lifted. When the Messenger of Allah, sal- lallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, finished the work (and noticed that they had taken the child away) he, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, asked: “Where is the child?” Abu Usayd said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, we took him away.’ He, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said: “What is his name?” He said; ‘O Mes- senger of Allah, it is so and so’, whereupon he (the Prophet of Allah, sallal- laahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “No, his name is Munthir”, and named him Munthir on that day.1
An-Nawawi (a scholar) said: “The reason he, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, gave him this name is because his father’s cousin’s name was Al-Munthir ibn ‘Amr, and was martyred during the battle of Bi’r Ma’oonah, and he was the lead- er of the Muslim forces then. So he, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, gave him this name in hope that he would follow in his footsteps.”2
المراجع
- Reported by Al-Bukhaari (6191) and Muslim (2149).
- The explanation of An-Nawawi on the book of Muslim (128/14).
