Although these three things are used to identify a person, they achieve this differently:
Name
The word that is used to identify you from birth and does not usually contain the word Ab or Umm or any form of praise or insult, like ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Ḥamzah, Yaḥyá, ʿĀʾishah, Laylá.
Laqab (Nickname)
Any word that usually succeeds your name in Arabic and contains some sort of praise or insult, like tall in the laqab tall Uways [i.e. Uways al-Ṭawīl], and blind in the laqab Blind Muḥammad or Muḥammad the Blind [i.e. Muḥammad al-Aʿmash]. Utilising the first type of laqab is allowed; however, utilisin…
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: the parable of the one who remembers Allāh and one who does not is like the living and the dead.
Narrated by al-Bukhārī and MuslimImām Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shawkānī [d. 1250 AH] said:1
This ḥadīth has been narrated by al-Bukhārī and Muslim from the aḥadīth of Abū Mūsá [al-Ashʿarī] (may Allāh be pleased with him). This is al-Bukhārī’s wording of the ḥadīth in the chapter entitled ‘Invocations’ and Muslim mentioned it in the chapter of ‘Ṣalāh’ from his [book] ‘Al-Ṣaḥīḥ’ with the wording:
‘The likeness of a house in which Allāh is remembered and a house devoid of Allāh…
‘Whomever innovates in our matter [of Islām] that which is not from it will have [that which he innovated] rejected [by Allāh]’ or ‘whomever executes an action [of worship] that is not from our matter [of Islām] will have that [innovated action] rejected [by Allāh],’
Prophet (ﷺ) in the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishahImām ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir al-Saʿdī [d. 1376 AH] said:1
it denotes both an explicit and implicit meaning.
As for its explicit meaning of the ḥadīth
It unequivocally proves that any act of innovation devised in this dīn, for which there exists no basis in the Book [of Allāh] or the Sunnah…
Narrated by Abū Hurayrah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr (may Allāh be pleased with him) who said:1
I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) say: ‘Whatever I have forbidden you from, refrain from it completely. Whatever I have ordered you with, carry out to the very best of your ability. For the nations, before you were only destroyed because of their copious amount of questions, and their disagreements with their prophets.’
Narrated by al-Bukhārī and MuslimAl-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Rajab [d. 795 AH] said:
The meaning of this is that everything that a Muslim could conceivably need relating to his dīn, without a d…
