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Keeping the name "suwaidah"
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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