English translation
3114. Narrated Jābir bin 'Abdullāh رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا: A boy was born to one of our men, the Anṣār, and he wanted to name him Muḥammad. The Anṣārī man said, "I took the boy to the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ said, "Name your child by my name, but do not name (them) by my Kunya, for I have been made Qāsim (i.e., a distributor) to distribute (the booty etc.) amongst you." The narrator, Ḥusain said that the Prophet ﷺ said, "I have been sent as a Qāsim (i.e., distributor) to distribute (things) amongst you." [The subnarrator Sālim said that he heard Jābir saying that the man wanted to name the boy Al-Qāsim, but the Prophet ﷺ said, "Call (your sons) by my name, but do not name (them) by my Kunya."]
