Is it permissible to name a store that sells tools and books after a scholar, such as "Shaykh Muhammad Al-Uthaymeen, may Allah have mercy on him"?
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There is no harm in naming a library after Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen or other famous scholars of knowledge or jihad, as this revives their name and reminds people of their virtue, as long as the name does not promote a person from among the people of innovation (bid'ah) and deviance, and as long as no reprehensible matters are sold therein that would disgrace the Sheikh's name. The practice of people has been thus, and none of the people of knowledge have censured it.
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