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What is the meaning of the name Hanaan?

· 25 Safar 1439 AH1 min readFatwa 39369English

Question

Assalamu Alaykum W W,

I hope Mufti Saheb is in the best of health.

What is the meaning of the name Hanaan?

Is it permissible to keep a baby girls name Hanaan as I have heard it is a unisex name thus one should refrain from keeping it.

Wassalam

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, The Most Merciful.

As-salaamu `alaykum wa-ramatullahi wa-barakatuh.

The name Hanaan or Hannaan (spelt as حنان in Arabic) means sympathy, compassion, kindness and love.[1]

We advise Hanna (حنه) instead for a girl. Hanna has the same meaning as Hannaan.[2]

And Allah Ta`ala Knows Best.

Hussein Muhammad.

Student Darul Iftaa

Tanzania

Checked and Approved by:

Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

References (Arabic / Urdu sources)

[1]

المورد. دار , Pg 492.

{وَحَنَانًا مِنْ لَدُنَّا وَزَكَاةً وَكَانَ تَقِيًّا } [مريم: 13]

فتاوی دار العلوم زکريا، Vol 7, Pg 574.

[2] Ibid, Pg 588.

Answered by
Hussein Muhammad
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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