I say: This is a good chain of transmission. All of its narrators are trustworthy, except Saʿid ibn Hafs al-Nufayli, concerning whom there is some minor criticism. Ibn Hibban deemed him trustworthy (8/268) and included three of his hadiths in his Sahih; al-Dhahabi and al-Asqalani said: “Truthful, though his condition changed toward the end of his life.”
Abu Shihab was Musa ibn Nafiʿ al-Khayyat. The original mistakenly has “Ibn Shihab”; the correction is based on the manuscript (3/111/1) and the biographical works on narrators.
This hadith also has a supporting report with similar wording from Hudhayfah—may Allah be pleased with him—which has already appeared at the beginning of the first volume, no. 5. *
- “If I live—if Allah wills—I shall forbid people from being named Barakah, Nafiʿ, and Aflah. I do not know whether he mentioned Aflah or not. The Prophet died before he forbade this.”
Ibn Hibban recorded it in his Sahih (7/533–534) through Ismaʿil ibn ʿAbd al-Karim, who said: Ibrahim ibn ʿAqil ibn Maʿqil narrated to me from his father, from Wahb ibn Munabbih, who said: Jabir ibn ʿAbd Allah informed me that he heard the Prophet say ... and then cited it, adding at its end:
“ʿUmar intended to forbid this, but then abandoned the idea.”
I say: This is an authentic chain with a continuous chain of transmission. All of its narrators are trustworthy, and Wahb ibn Munabbih explicitly states that he heard it from Jabir. Al-Hafiz al-Mizzi also authenticated it in al-Tahdhib (3/140) in connection with another hadith. The hadith is also in Sahih Muslim through Ibn Jurayj, who said: Abu al-Zubayr informed me that he heard Jabir ibn ʿAbd Allah say ... and then cited it in similar wording. Its documentation has already appeared in the fifth volume, no. 2143.