NAMING NEW BORN BABY ON THE SEVENTH DAY: A FORGETFUL SUNNAH AMONG THE ADHERENTS OF SUNNAH.
There is no disagreement between the scholars that a child naming ceremony is the seventh of his birth but differ whether the first day of his birth would be counted or not?
It was reported from the Prophet that a child is named, shaved and sacrifice an animal on the seventh day-no doubt about this.
And it was also reported that the Prophet named his son the day he was born. More so, Abdullah bn Az-Zubaayr was also named the day he was born.
Allah named Yahya before his birth.
Therefore, the above narrations and the verse indicate that we can name our child on the seventh day as well as before birth and the day he was born! That means, any of these could be practised! From experience, if a sunni Muslim gives birth to a child, his brethren will begin to ask him that what is his name? If respond by saying that we are yet to give him name. It sound strange in their hearing.
Or they even ask why as if it has propondrant over naming on the seventh day! Dear brethren! Even if we go by principles of jurisprudence, naming on the seventh day is stronger in evidence-bcos it's a statement- than naming on the day of birth-because it's a deed.
However, what we are just calling our attention to is put both in practice so that the next generation would not count it as innovation!
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