What is the meaning of the name Hanaan?
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.
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- Hussein Muhammad
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- Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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