What is the correct wording of the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) narrated by Ibn Hibban concerning the emergence of a man from his Ummah, which begins with "yuwāṭiʾ" (meaning, 'he will agree with' or 'his name will conform to mine'); is it "his name is my name and his character is my character," or "his name is my name and his father's name is my father's name," or "his name is my name and his kunya is my kunya"?
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The in Ibn Hibban: "A man will emerge from my Ummah whose name matches my name and whose character matches my character; he will fill the earth with fairness and justice as it was filled with ظلم and جور (tyranny and oppression)." Al-Arna'ut deemed it weak, and Al-Albani described it in Silsilah Al-Da'ifah as denounced (munkar) due to the addition "and whose character matches my character," because Ibn Shabramah was alone in narrating it without the reliable narrators.
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