I named my child after her mother..is it accepted in Islam to b calling her junior
Praise
be to Allah
There is nothing wrong with naming the daughter after her
mother, if the mother’s name is a name that is mustahabb or permissible,
because the basic principle with regard to names is that they are
permissible, and no names are disallowed unless they are prohibited
according to Islamic teaching, such as names that are indicative of
servitude to anything other than Allah, or names that are reprehensible and
off-putting.
We do not know of any shar‘i reason to disallow naming a
daughter after her mother.
Shaykh Sulaymaan al-Maajid (may Allah preserve him) said:
I do not know of anything in Islamic teaching to disallow
naming a daughter after her mother. Based on that, there is nothing wrong
with doing that. End quote.
http://www.salmajed.com/fatwa/findnum.php?arno=17250
With regard to adding another name (such as as-sughra
(the younger) or junior) to differentiate between the girl and her mother,
there is nothing wrong with that.
‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib (may Allah be pleased with him) named one
of his daughters Faatimah, after his wife Faatima, the daughter of our
Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him).
She (Faatimah) was not her mother; rather she was his
daughter from another woman, one of the slave women of ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib
(may Allah be pleased with him). So one was called Faatimah as-Sughra (the
Younger) and the other was called Faatimah al-Kubra (the Elder), so as to
distinguish between them.
See Tahdheeb at-Tahdheeb (7/136)
For more information, please see the answer to question no.
217235
And Allah knows best.
