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Fatwa CenterHadeeth forbidding beating or depriving a child carrying the name Muhammad
Question
How authentic is the Hadeeth which reads "If you name a child ‘Muhammad’, do not beat or deprive him"?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
The Hadeeth in question was narrated by Al-Bazzaar 
on the authority of Abu Raafi' 
. Al-Haythami in Majma' Az-Zawaa’id said, "Al-Bazzaar narrated this Hadeeth from his Shaykh Ghassaan ibn ‘Ubayd whom Ibn Hibbaan and other narrators judged as trustworthy, and the Hadeeth is weak." Shaykh Naasir Ad-Deen Al-Albaani classified the Hadeeth as weak.
Allaah Knows best.
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