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Is it permissible to supplicate for someone by mentioning their name if the name is impermissible according to Islamic law, or if it is a foreign name of unknown meaning?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, uttered some names of individuals whose names included an act of worship to other than Allah, such as his statement regarding the Dajjal: "It is as if I liken him to 'Abd al-'Uzzā ibn Qaṭan." It is mentioned in "Tuhfat al-Mawdūd bi Ahkām al-Mawlūd" that his saying, peace and blessings be upon him, "Wretched is the worshipper of the dinar," did not refer to a name but rather intended a description and an imprecation. As for his saying, "I am the son of 'Abd al-Muttalib," it was not an act of creating a name, but rather an act of reporting the name by which the person was known. Therefore, there is no harm in mentioning the name of the person mentioned in the supplication, nor in mentioning a person whose name is foreign.

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