This research is an attempt to reveal the resources from which scholars took the prophetic names; the importance of the research lies in its relation to the prophetic names that are not taken without legal evidence, since they are within the general scope of the prophetic hadith, the research aims to identify the prophetic names, determine the valid criteria to be adopted, identify the suspicions in their error, to collect the nominal resources of the authors in the prophetic names , knowledge of these resources order in terms of validity, I have adopted the descriptive analytical approach explaining the resources and their ranks and their derivational methods, verifying the resources' validity, ways of evaluating. The result of research has concluded with four criteria to verify the prophetic names which are including validity of names’ resources, validity of derivation, confirmation of narration, and to not indicate inappropriate meanings. Also, It limited the nominal resources in eight resources including the explicit Qur’anic text, related to Qur’anic text, anomalous Qur’anic recitation, accepted hadith, rejected hadith, mauquf and maqthu traditions, Bible and Gospel and previous books, and the poems that praised or lamented Prophet ﷺ. Moreover, the research arranged the resources according to their strength and reliability into five ranks which are proper names of prophet ﷺ, names mentioned explicitly in Qur’an, names mentioned in valid and confirmed anomalous Qur’anic recitation and accepted hadith, names mentioned in poems that praised or lamented Prophet ﷺ by his companions, and then names and descriptions that mentioned in previous books and commonly accepted by scholars in this filed. The research recommended the careful investigation of the manuscript in the books of the prophetic names, and further research into the inference of the considered names.