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Keeping the name "suwaidah"

· 29 Jumada I 1434 AH1 min readEnglish

Question

I am finding a good name for my baby girl due soon. I am thinking of Suwaidah. I know there is a Sahabah by the name of Suwaid bin Samit, and from the internet I saw that there is a narrator of hadith named Suwaidah. But I couldn't find the meaning of the name. I was told it could have come from the root word Saada, meaning 'Azim/Karim, from which the word Sayyid comes. Is this correct?

Answer

Keeping the name suwaidah is permissible. Suwaidah means black.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by
Mufti Zakaria Makada
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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