4951 - Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us, Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Thābit, from Anas, who said: I took ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥah to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, when he was born, and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was in a cloak, tarring his camel. He said: "Do you have any dates with you?" I said: Yes. He said: So I handed him some dates, and he threw them into his mouth, chewed them, then opened his mouth and fed them to him. The baby began to smack his lips, and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The Ansār love dates." And he named him ʿAbd Allāh.

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And bearing witness to his saying: "The most beloved names to Allah are ʿAbd Allāh and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān" is the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar that has preceded with the author before this.

And bearing witness to it, apart from his saying: "Name yourselves with the names of the prophets," is the ḥadīth of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir al-Yaḥṣubī, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The best of names are ʿAbd Allāh and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and the like of that, and the truest of names are al-Ḥārith and Hammām—al-Ḥārith for his worldly life and his religion, and Hammām for both of them—and the worst of names are Ḥarb and Murrah." It was narrated by Ibn Wahb in his Jāmiʿ (53). It is mursal and ṣaḥīḥ.

And bearing witness to it also is the mursal narration of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Bakht, which was also narrated by Ibn Wahb in his Jāmiʿ (46). Its narrators are trustworthy.

Al-Khaṭṭābī said: "Al-Ḥārith" is among the truest of names only because of the correspondence of the name to its meaning from which it is derived, and that is because the meaning of al-Ḥārith is the acquirer. It is said: ḥaratha, meaning: he acquired, and the acquisition of a man is his earning. Allah, Glorified be He, said: {Whoever desires the harvest of the Hereafter—We increase for him in his harvest. And whoever desires the harvest of this world—We give him thereof} [al-Shūrā: 20]. As for Hammām, it is from "I hammamtu bi-al-shayʾ": when I intended it, and there is no one who does not intend something, and that is the meaning of truthfulness by which these two names are described. And the ugliest of them is Ḥarb, because of the unpleasant things in war, and in Murrah, because of the repulsiveness and bitterness. And he, peace and blessings be upon him, loved good omens and good names.

(1) Its chain is ṣaḥīḥ. Thābit: he is Ibn Aslam al-Bunānī.
And it was narrated by Muslim (2144) from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, with this chain.
And it was narrated with its like, and in it is the story, by Muslim (2144) (23), via the path of Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, from Anas, with it. =