Hadeeth forbidding beating or depriving a child carrying the name Muhammad Fatwa No: 30790
- Fatwa Date:14-2-2012
How authentic is the Hadeeth which reads "If you name a child ‘Muhammad’, do not beat or deprive him"?
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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.
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