Praise be to Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah.
The Names of Allah تعالى are tawqifiyyah, meaning that they must be established by revelation. Therefore, it is not permissible to affirm a name for Allah تعالى except on the basis of sound evidence from the Qur’an or Sunnah. It is not correct to name Allah تعالى with a name by which He did not name Himself or by which His Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم did not name Him.
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen رحمه الله said:
“It is not permissible to name Allah تعالى or describe Him with anything that has not been mentioned in the Qur’an and Sunnah, because that constitutes speaking about Allah تعالى without knowledge.”
It is also important to distinguish between Names, Attributes, and Actions. The category of Attributes is broader than that of Names, and the category of Actions is broader than that of Attributes.
Thus, an action may be established for Allah تعالى, or He may be described with an Attribute indicated by revelation, without the same word necessarily being one of His Beautiful Names.
Therefore, the establishment of actions such as coming, arriving, taking, holding, and seizing does not necessarily mean that expressions such as “the One Who comes,” “the One Who arrives,” “the One Who takes,” or “the One Who holds” are Names of Allah تعالى.
The word “Al-Munji” is not among the established Beautiful Names of Allah by an explicit religious text, and therefore it is not correct to make it a Name of Allah تعالى.
However, this does not prevent us from stating that Allah تعالى saves His servants, because the action of saving is established in the Qur’an.
Allah تعالى says:
﴿Then We save Our messengers and those who believe. Thus it is incumbent upon Us to save the believers.﴾ [Yunus: 103]
And He سبحانه says:
﴿And when Our command came, We saved Hud and those who believed with him by a mercy from Us, and We saved them from a severe punishment.﴾ [Hud: 58]
And He تعالى says:
﴿Then We will save those who feared Allah and leave the wrongdoers therein on their knees.﴾ [Maryam: 72]
And He سبحانه says:
﴿And We saved Moses and all those with him.﴾ [Ash-Shu‘ara’: 65]
And Allah تعالى says:
﴿Say: Who saves you from the darknesses of the land and sea, when you call upon Him humbly and secretly, saying, ‘If He saves us from this, we will surely be among the grateful’? Say: Allah saves you from it and from every distress, yet you associate others with Him.﴾ [Al-An‘am: 63–64]
These verses establish that Allah تعالى saves His believing servants from distress and from the punishment of this world and the Hereafter, and it is permissible to state this about Him.
If one says:
“Allah تعالى saves the believers from distress,”
or:
“Allah is the One who saved Moses and those with him,”
then this is a correct statement because it is based on what is mentioned in the Qur’an.
However, to say:
“Al-Munji is one of the Beautiful Names of Allah,”
requires religious evidence establishing that this expression was given as a Name of Allah تعالى. Merely establishing the action of saving for Allah سبحانه is not sufficient to establish the Name.
This is an important principle in this subject:
Not every action that is established for Allah تعالى may be used to derive a Name from it and apply that Name to Him as one of His Beautiful Names.
Based on the above, it is not preferable to initiate the naming of someone as “Abd al-Munji”, because “Al-Munji” has not been established as one of the Names of Allah تعالى by a religious text.
It is preferable to choose names attached to Names of Allah that are established in the Qur’an and Sunnah, such as:
Abdullah, Abd ar-Rahman, Abd al-Aziz, Abd al-Karim, Abd al-Hakim, and similar names.
As for someone who is already named “Abd al-Munji” and is known by this name among people, the ruling concerning continuing to use an existing name differs from the ruling concerning initiating such a name. The person’s circumstances and any hardship or harm resulting from changing the name should be taken into consideration.
And Allah تعالى knows best.