Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrated that the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), Zaid bin Harithah (may Allah be pleased with him), used to be called by us as Zaid bin Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), until the verse was revealed in the Noble Qur'an: "Call them by (the names of) their fathers; that is more just in the sight of Allah."