The Book of Remembrances KITĀB AL-ADHKĀR
Names, Nicknames & Kunyahs
Chapter 234
What to say during childbirth and when a woman is in labour
Chapter 235
Saying the adhān in the ear of a newborn baby
Chapter 236
Supplicating and performing taḥnīk for a baby
Chapter 237
Naming a newborn baby
Chapter 238
Naming a stillborn baby
Chapter 239
The desirability of giving beautiful names
Chapter 240
The names dearest to Allah
Chapter 241
The desirability of congratulating and what to say when congratulated
Chapter 242
The prohibition of giving repulsive names
Chapter 243
A man calling a subordinate, such as a son, servant, or student, by an ugly name in order to retrain him from doing vile deeds and to train him
Chapter 244
Calling out to a person whose name one does not know
Chapter 245
The prohibition of a son, student or pupil calling his father, teacher or mentor by name
Chapter 246
The desirability of changing a name to a better one
Chapter 247
The permissibility of shortening a person’s name, as long as he is not offended by it
Chapter 248
The prohibition of giving a person a nickname that he dislikes
Chapter 249
The acceptability and desirability of giving a person a nickname that he likes
Chapter 250
The acceptability of kunyahs and the desirability of addressing people by them
Chapter 251
The kunyah of a man [normally] coming from his eldest son
Chapter 252
Giving a man who has sons a kunyah which does not come from his son
Chapter 253
Giving a kunyah to someone who has no children, and to a minor
Chapter 254
The prohibition of using the kunyah Abū al-Qāsim
Chapter 255
The permissibility of giving a kunyah to a disbeliever, innovator or sinner if he is not known by any other name, or there is a risk of trouble from calling him by his name
Chapter 256