the Names of Prophet Muhammad: Twenty-Eight Names, Qur'an and Sahih Hadith Behind Each, What Two Hundred One Really Are

Books of this kind give two hundred and one names. This one gives twenty-eight, and says where every one of them comes from. There is no list. The ninety-nine names of Allah rest on a hadith that supplies the number. Nothing equivalent exists for the Prophet, peace be upon him. What exists is this: he named himself on at least three occasions, to three different Companions, and the three lists do not match. Jubayr ibn Mut'im rode into Medina in 624 to ransom prisoners, was not a Muslim, and heard the Prophet recite. He carried five names into the record. Abu Musa al-Ash'ari has six. Hudhayfa has seven. This book takes each name in turn and states its evidence in the prose where a reader can see it: the Qur'an by sura and verse, Bukhari and Muslim by number, everything else with the name of whoever graded it. Some famous names are not where a reader expects them. Al-Amin does not appear in the hadith literature at all. Habib Allah rests on a report al-Tirmidhi himself called strange. Ta-Ha and Ya-Sin were disputed for a thousand years and are disputed still. None of them is thereby worthless, and the last part of the book argues why. For readers who want to know what can actually be established, and who would rather be told the truth about a weak chain than handed a longer list.