Aḥmad, al-Ḥāshir, al-Muqaffā, the Prophet of Repentance, and the Prophet of the Battle.’ This was narrated by Muslim.
Wakīʿ reported—through al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ—in a suspended chain from the Prophet ﷺ that he said: ‘O people, I am but a mercy that has been bestowed.’
Ziyād ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥassānī transmitted the same ḥadīth with a connected chain from Saʿīr ibn al-Khamis, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah.
Allah, Exalted is He, has said: ‘We have not sent you except as a mercy to all the worlds’ (al-Anbiyāʾ 21:107).
Wakīʿ also narrated—through Ismāʿīl al-Azraq, from Ibn ʿUmar, from Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah—that Yāsīn is a name of Muḥammad ﷺ.
Some scholars have said that in the Qur’an the Messenger of Allah ﷺ has five names: Muḥammad, Aḥmad, ʿAbd Allah, Yāsīn, and Ṭā-Hā.
It has likewise been asserted that Ṭā-Hā is the word for ‘O man’ in the dialect of the tribe of ʿUk: if you say to a man of that tribe ‘O man,’ he will not turn to you, but if you say ‘Ṭā-Hā,’ he will look your way. This was related by al-Kalbī from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās; however, al-Kalbī is considered unreliable. According to this view, therefore, Ṭā-Hā would not be one of the Prophet’s names.
In His Book, Allah has described the Prophet ﷺ with many designations: Messenger, unlettered Prophet, witness, bearer of glad tidings, warner, caller to Allah by His permission, illuminating lamp, kind and merciful, admonisher, the Cloaked One (al-Mudaththir), the Enwrapped One (al-Muzzammil), guide—among others.
Among his names are also al-Ḍaḥūk (the Smiling One) and al-Qattāl (the Warrior). In one report he said: ‘I am al-Ḍaḥūk; I am al-Qattāl.’
Ibn Masʿūd said: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ—who is the truthful and truly believed—told us…’