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Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم asked, ‘What is your name?’ He replied, ‘Ḥazn.’ To this, the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘You are Saĥl’ i.e. keep your name Saĥl as it means mild and Ḥazn means hard.’ Then that person said that he would not change the name given by his parents. Sa’īd Bin Musayyab رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ stated, ‘This resulted in the prolonging of harshness in us till now.’ (Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī, pp. 153, vol. 4, Ḥadīš 6193)
· Naming ‘Yāsīn’ or ‘Ṭāĥā’ is prohibited. (Fatāwā Razaviyyaĥ, pp. 680, vol. 24) Muhammad Yāsīn is also prohibited but it is permissible to give the name Ghulām Yāsīn or Ghulām Ṭāĥā.
· It is written in Baĥār-e-Sharī’at part 15 in the chapter about ‘Aqīqaĥ that although ‘Abdullāĥ and ‘Abdul Raḥmān are good names but recently it has been observed that instead of ‘Abdul Raḥmān, many people refer to this wrongly as ‘Raḥmān’ and it is unlawful to refer to anyone except Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ with the name ‘Raḥmān.’
Similarly, people call ‘Abdul Khāliq as Khāliq and ‘Abdul Ma’būd as Ma’būd. Such unlawful amendments in these holy names should never be allowed. It is also common tradition in shortening names that people distort the name in such a way that it presents some inferiority, such distortion in these names should never be done and where there is chance of distortion of such names, such names should not be used and instead other names should be adopted. (Baĥār-e-Sharī’at, pp. 356, vol. 3)
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