Question:
As salaam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatahu...Can you please tell me on judgement day we will be called by our mothers / fathers name? Since hazrat Adam doesn’t have a mother or father how will he be called by Allah Ta’ala on Judgement day? I would appreciate if you could answer this question with hadith references and Qur’an Ayats.
JazakAllah Khayr
Answer:
Alaykum as-Salam,
“Son of” is known as a patronymic (kunya) but “Father of” is also a kunya, hence Adam (upon him peace) is known as “Father of Mankind” (Abu al-Bashar) on earth and “Father of Muhammad” (Abu Muhammad) in Paradise as narrated by Ibn `Asakir from Ghalib b. `Abd Allah al-`Uqayli as mentioned by al-Suyuti in al-Durr al-Manthur under verse 2:37.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
