Ammar Alshukry – The Five Names of the Prophet Muhammad

Number 1, we'll start with the names of

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. How many

names does the prophet have?

He has 5.

And there's a concept which the Arabs had,

which is that the more names something has,

it indicates the greatness of something.

The more name something has, it indicates its

greatness. It's just natural. If something is great,

people talk about it a lot. If people

talk about it a lot, they'll come up

with a lot of names for it. So

for example, Houston has

h town and space city

and

Clutch city. Clutch city.

Bayou City. Bayou City. Bayou City. What is

it? That's hallahu,

city.

That's hallahu's in.

Halafu we ended at 4.

And beyond the first two it got shaky

to be honest. Right out of the way.

But I'm sure Houston has more

nicknames than League City for example because Houston

is a major city. Right? You go to

LA, LA has a lot of names. New

York has a lot of names. London has

a lot of names. Like, this this

the Arabs

were no different.

You have a lot of names for the

lion because the lion was the king of

beasts. It's the greatest beast. And so you

have Alaith and Usam and Haydaran,

Qavamfar

and the names go on.

Then you have the Arabs used to have

a lot of names for the sword because

the sword was something that was, you know,

very important in their culture.

Had a lot of names for wine.

Same idea. Right? So if I'm looking at

a culture from the outside, I can kind

of guess what are things that were important

to them just by the amount of names

something has. You find out that for example,

the Eskimos have a lot of names for

snow,

something that dominates their culture.

In the US for example,

money has a lot of names. Give me

some names for money.

Bread.

Bread. Dinero.

Dough, moolah.

Cash.

Greenbacks.

Greenbacks.

Wax.

Lotion. Lotion? Lotion. Motion.

I've never heard some of these before.

Stacks,

Benjamins,

bread, dough, cheese,

cake.

Right? Cake?

No.

What else?

Racks. Yeah. Racks.

Capital.

So you see, like, there's so much

for

money. There's so much for money because it's

something that people are always talking about. They

come up with a lot of names.

Don't don't look at the Arabs funny because

they have a lot of names for swords.

I'm sure we have even more names for

guns in the US.

We have probably as many names for wine

and alcohol as the Arabs of old did.

Same idea. So it's very, very so it

indicates the greatness of something.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because he's the greatest

period, he has an unknown number of names.

Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam says in the

hadith that's in Bukhari Muslim.

Allah has 99 names, a 100 except for

1, but there are other evidences that indicate

that Allah has even more than that. Allah

has even more than that.

Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam has 5 names.

The day of judgement being that it's the

greatest day has many names.

Like many many many names. Over 50 names

in the Quran for the day of judgement

because it's the greatest day. So I just

wanna I just wanna establish this concept that

having a lot of names indicates greatness. And

so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam mentions,

authentically reported, he says I have 5 names.

He says I have 5 names. Number 1,

the first is my I am Hammed and

I am Hammed.

And both of these come from the concept

of hamt, praise.

Because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is

the praiseworthy,

and he's the one who praises Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala the most.

Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, if he experienced

something that was good, he would say alhamdulillah.

And if he experienced something bad,

unpleasant, disliked, he would say alhamdulillah.

All praise is due to Allah in all

circumstances.

And Rasulullah salallahu alaihi salam's ummah is the

one who praises Allah

the most. We're the ones who you know,

the world right now is looking at and

saying these people are amazing. How are how

are they saying praise be to God even

as they're going through hardship?

But it's the ummah of Muhammad that

does that. That we say when we experience

something great, we say alhamdulillah. When we say

experience something painful we say Alhamdulillah in all

circumstances. All praise is due to Allah always.

So Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam praises Allah

the most. That's his first and second. Muhammad

and Ahmed the third

is

Al Aqib.

He is Al Aqib.

There is no prophet after him. He's the

final prophet. Aqib is the end of something.

And so your ankles are called your

your

but it's it's the end of a place.

And so the prophet

is an

there is no prophet after him. And he

says I am Al Mahi.

Al Mahi means the one who effaces,

erases,

eviscerates.

And he says, I am the one through

whom Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala effaces disbelief,

wipes out disbelief.

Some considered some scholars considered that that speaking

specifically about the Arabian Peninsula,

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala erased

disbelief from the Arabian Peninsula

during the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam and after

him. Another position is that this is near

the

rasulullah sallahu alaihi wa sallahu alaihi wa sallam's

message is going to face kufr. Like, before

the end, the prophet

mentioned that this deen will enter everywhere that

the night and day enter, all over the

globe.

Number 5, the 5th name is Al Hashir

Al Hashir,

The one whom everyone will be resurrected at

his feet on the day of judgment.

And so these are the 5 names of

Rasulullah

There are other names, of course, that are

very popular

like Baha, Yaseen.

They're attributed to be names of Rasulullah

but there's no evidence to indicate that Paha

or Yaseen are actually names of Allah. There's

no evidence.

Yaseen and Paha. They're very very popular, probably

of the most popular. And

what's

authentic, however,

is that these are

they are what are called the broken letters

at the beginning of the chapters of the

Quran.

And the.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is

begins a number of chapters with broken letters

and that's a different subject of the science

of the Quran, what those broken letters are

considered to be. But they're broken letters

or interrupted letters or however you want to

call them. Maybe broken letters isn't the best

way to translate it, but they're interrupted letters

at the beginning of chapters.

Any questions on this so far?

Yeah. Mahmood and Mustafa. These are all praises.

These are all praises of the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam, but there's nothing authentically reported

to say that his name is Mustafa or

his name is Mahmood. Mustafa means he's the

one who's chosen. And there are lots of

names by the way that Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala uses to describe the prophet. But there

are descriptions of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa

sallam.

Like these are all, a witness or a

bashir or a nadeer. These are all descriptions

of the prophet

that come in the Quran, but there's nothing

that indicate that it is an actual name

of his.

Yes, Ashar. So is

not a name. It's what's called a a.

It's, a nickname.

So the Arabs had 3 types of names.

They had what's called a. They had a,

and they have a,

they had a.

So you have a name.

Your name is Ahmed, for example. And then

you have a nickname. The nickname is whatever

people call you.

And then you have a, and a is

attributed with Abu or ibn or

or

bint. So you have these types of

these types of names and these were generally

honorific titles.

So you don't call a person by their

first name, for example. Here in the US,

until recently, it used to be calling people

by their last name, mister so and so,

miss so and so, if you wanted to

be more respectful. Right? So they had that

kind of concept. Until today, amongst the Arabs,

it's awkward for you to call somebody by

their first name, especially if they're old or

something. And so using a is something that's

more honorable, something that's more respected

or more more respectable.