The Sunnah of your baby’s first days
From the adhān in the first hours to the seventh day, every ruling sourced in all four schools. And names you can trust.
سَكِينَة SakīnahTranquillity, calm and dignityFrom the first hours to forty days
- Before the birth The hospital checklist
What to pack, and what to tell your birth team.
- The first hours The adhān and taḥnīk
Words of faith in the ear, a taste of date, the first duʿāʾ.
- The first days Choosing a name
What makes a good name, and when to give it.
- The seventh day ʿAqīqah, hair and name
The sacrifice, the hair and its weight in silver.
- For your son Khitān
What each school says, and when it is done.
- Forty days For mothers
Nifās, prayer, fasting, and rest that is your right.
The Sunnah looks after the mother too.
The forty days after a birth are for healing. You do not pray while the bleeding lasts and you never make those prayers up; the fasts wait until you are well. Rest is your right, and the help of the people around you is their duty.
Tools for the first week
- Seventh-day datesThe 7th, 14th and 21st days in both calendars, counted the way your school counts.
- A welcome cardAnnounce your baby with a duʿāʾ, as a picture to send to 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, with meanings from the dictionaries
All 344 namesHow it is written
Every ruling links to its source. Where the four schools differ, each is given from its own books, with volume and page. Every ḥadīth outside Bukhārī and Muslim carries its grading and the scholar who graded it, and no weak report is used as proof. The Arabic is copied from its source, never retyped. No ads, no tracking.
- sources cited
- 181
- guides
- 7
- names
- 344
From the first adhān to the last ghusl.
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