the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, has been forgiven his past and future sins, whereas we remain in our juljubiyyah (1).” He continued to use the kunya Abū ‘Abd Allāh until he died.
He also gave ‘Ā’ishah the kunya Umm ‘Abd Allāh (2). His wives likewise had kunyas, such as Umm Habībah and Umm Salamah.
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The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade calling grapes karm, saying: “Karm is the believer’s heart” (3). This is because the word denotes abundant goodness and benefit in whatever bears that name. The believer’s heart deserves this designation, rather than the grapevine. But is the intention to prohibit reserving this name exclusively for grapevines, since the believer’s heart has a greater claim to it than the vine,
(1) This is how the word is vocalized in Qāf and in an old manuscript of Sunan Abī Dāwūd. In the manuscripts, it is written with four teeth after the jīm. Its vocalization varies considerably among manuscripts of the Sunan; see Sunan Abī Dāwūd, Dār al-Qibla edition (5/339) and Dār al-Ta’sīl edition (7/411). In the margin of al-Mundhirī’s Tahdhīb al-Sunan (7/259), Ibn Nāsir states: “The correct reading is fī jalajatinā (among our fellows).” It has been explained as meaning: we remain among other Muslims like ourselves, not knowing what will be done with us. Tahdhīb al-Lugha, al-Nihāya, and Lisān al-‘Arab, under the root jalaj, report from Ibn al-A‘rābī and Abū ‘Amr al-Shaybānī that jalaj means people’s heads, its singular being jalaja. Al-Azharī explains: “The meaning is that we remain among a large number of Muslims, counted by their heads.” In Jāmi‘ al-Usūl (1/362), the word was corrupted to jalhatinā, with hā’ rather than jīm. I have not found juljubiyya in the dictionaries.
(2) Narrated by Ahmad (25530) and Abū Dāwūd (4970), from ‘Ā’isha, may Allah be pleased with her. It was graded authentic by Ibn Hibbān (7117), al-Hākim (4/278), al-Nawawī in al-Adhkār (p. 295), and al-Albānī in al-Silsila al-Sahīha (132).
(3) Narrated by al-Bukhārī (6183) and Muslim (2247/7), from Abū Hurayra, may Allah be pleased with him.