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Kheira

خيرةIn Arabic

Meaning
The best and choicest; a woman of goodness
About the name
Hasan al-Basri (642-728), the celebrated early preacher and ascetic, was the son of a woman named Khayra, said to have been a maidservant of the Prophet's wife Umm Salama.
For
A girl
Origin
Arabic
Other spellings
Khaira, Khayra, Khira

Islamic naming guidance

  • Permissible

Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.

Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources

Confidence: medium

Sources

No source is recorded for this ruling yet.

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