Chapter 249
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 249
The acceptability and desirability of giving a person a nickname that he likes
Context
ONE EXAMPLE IS Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq 
, whose name was ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Uthmān and whose nickname was ‘Atīq. That is the correct opinion, held by the majority of ‘ulamā’ and historians. Others say that his given name was ‘Atīq. The former opinion is the correct one. The ‘ulamā’ agree that it is a good nickname, but they disagree as to why he was named ‘Atīq.