It also has another supporting report, from the hadith of Umm Ḥumayd, the wife of Abū Ḥumayd al-Sāʿidī, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, to a similar effect. It reaches us from her through two routes, each strengthening the other, as I have explained in Takhrīj al-Targhīb; thus, the hadith is authentic on this basis.

2143 — “If I live, Allah willing, I shall certainly forbid people from being named Rabāḥ, Najīḥ, Aflaḥ, Nāfiʿ, and Yasār.”

It was narrated by al-Tirmidhī (2/136), Ibn Mājah (3729), al-Ṭaḥāwī in Mushkil al-Āthār (2/302), and al-Ḥākim (4/274), through Abū Aḥmad, who said: Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated to us from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Al-Ṭaḥāwī did not mention ʿUmar in his chain of transmission. Al-Tirmidhī said: “A singular hadith. This is how Abū Aḥmad narrated it from Sufyān, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, from ʿUmar. Others narrated it from Sufyān, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Abū Aḥmad is a trustworthy memorizer, and the well-known narration among the people is from Jābir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, without ʿUmar.”

I say: This is al-Ṭaḥāwī’s narration, as we mentioned. He narrated it through Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-ʿAbdī, who said: Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated it to us likewise. Abū Ḥudhayfah also corroborated him, saying: Sufyān narrated it to us likewise. Al-Ḥākim narrated it and said: “It is authentic according to Muslim’s criteria, and I know of no one other than Abū Aḥmad who narrated it from al-Thawrī while mentioning ʿUmar in its chain of transmission.” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. It is as they said, were it not for Abū al-Zubayr’s ambiguous use of “from”; but he explicitly stated that he heard it in Ibn Jurayj’s narration: “Abū al-Zubayr informed me that he heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh say: ‘The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, intended to forbid people from being named Yaʿlā, Barakah, Aflaḥ, Yasār, Nāfiʿ, and names like…’