76 - Chapter on a man who adopts a kunyah when he has no child

4969 - Musa ibn Isma'il narrated to us, Hammad narrated to us, Thabit informed us, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, used to visit us. I had a young brother who was given the kunyah Abu 'Umayr. He had a small bird (nughar) that he played with, and it died. One day the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, came in and saw him sad, so he said: "What is the matter with him?" They said: "His little bird has died." He said: "O Abu 'Umayr, what happened to the little bird (nughayr)?"

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Al-Bukhari said in his "Tarikh" 1/155-156: Those hadiths are the most authentic: "Name yourselves with my name, but do not use my kunyah." We say: It has already preceded with the author under number (4965) from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, and see the hadith of Jabir (4966).

(1) Its chain is authentic. Hammad is Ibn Salamah, and Thabit is Ibn Aslam al-Bunani.
Al-Bukhari also narrated it in "Al-Adab al-Mufrad" (847) from Musa ibn Isma'il, with this chain.
Ahmad narrated it in his "Musnad" (14071) from 'Affan, and Ibn Hibban in his "Sahih" (109) via the route of Hawtharah ibn Ashras, both from Hammad, with it.
Ahmad also narrated it in his "Musnad" (13325), and al-Bukhari in "Al-Adab al-Mufrad" (384) via the route of Sulayman ibn al-Mughirah, from Thabit, with it.
See the complete takhrij of the route of Thabit from Anas in the two aforementioned places in Ahmad's Musnad, and in Ibn Hibban.
It was also narrated via the route of Abu al-Tayyah - Yazid ibn Humayd al-Duba'i - from Anas by al-Bukhari (6129) and (6203), Muslim (2150) (30), Ibn Majah (3720) and (3740), al-Tirmidhi (333) and (2106) and (2107), and al-Nasa'i in "Al-Kubra" (10093), (10094), and (10095). It is in "Al-Musnad" (12199) and "Sahih Ibn Hibban" (2308).
It was also narrated via the route of Humayd, from Anas, by al-Nasa'i in "Al-Kubra" (10092), and it is in "Al-Musnad" (12137). =