A blessing has arrived
The Sunnah of your baby’s first days
What to do from the first adhān to the seventh day, with every ruling sourced in all four schools. And Muslim names you can trust.
Step by step
Your baby’s first days
- Before the birth The hospital checklist
What to pack, and what to tell your birth team.
- The first hours The first hours
The adhān, taḥnīk with a date, and the first duʿāʾ.
- The first days Choosing a name
A good name, and when to give it.
- The seventh day The seventh day
The ʿaqīqah, the hair and its silver, the name.
- For your son Khitān
Khitān: what each school says, and when.
- Forty days For mothers
Nifās, prayer, fasting, and rest for you.
For the mother
The Sunnah looks after you too
Your first forty days: rest, nifās, prayer and fasting, and the help you are owed, with each school’s view and its source.
Little helpers
Tools for the first week
Seventh-day datesThe 7th, 14th and 21st days in both calendars, school by school. A welcome cardShare the good news with a duʿāʾ, as a picture for family. Silver for the hairThe charity for the weight of the hair, at the price you enter. Hospital checklistPrint it, pack it, hand it to your birth team.
Names you can trust
Meanings from the dictionaries, not from guesses
All 344 names- Where the four schools differ, each is given from its own books, with volume and page. 181 sources cited across 7 guides so far.
- Every ḥadīth outside Bukhārī and Muslim is graded, and the grader named. No weak ḥadīth is used as proof.
- The Arabic is copied from its source, never retyped. 344 names so far, each meaning cited from the classical dictionaries.
- No ads, no tracking, no paid listings. Not a fatwa: ask your imam where the schools differ.
From the first adhān to the last ghusl.
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