Al-Adab Al-Mufrad — Hadith #47323

Ali bin Abdullah and Saeed bin Muhammad narrated to us, saying: Yaqoub bin Ibrahim narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to us, on the authority of Muhammad bin Ishaq. He said: Muhammad bin Amr bin Ata told me that he visited Zainab bint Abi Salamah, and she asked him about the name of a sister he had with him. He said: So I said: Her name is Barrah. She said: Change her name, for the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, married Zainab bint Jahsh and her name was Barrah, so he changed her name to Zainab, and he went to see Umm Salamah when he married her, and my name is Barra. He heard her calling me Barra, so he said: Do not pay zakat. Yourselves, for God knows best who is righteous among you and who is immoral. He named her Zainab, and she said: She is Zainab, so I said to her: Name her, She said: Change it to what the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, changed it to, so he named her Zainab.