Rahman
رحمنIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Most Merciful, a divine name used with no 'Abd before it
- For
- A boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- Other spellings
- Rahmaan, Rahmane, Rehman
Islamic naming guidance
- Discouraged
- Scholars differ about this name.
- In the Qur’an
Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.
A divine name used on its own: scholars differ
A Hanafi fatwa, a South African mufti and a US imams' Q&A site all say Rahman alone is not for people and should be Abd al-Rahman. None that allows it was found, yet Rahman is widely used as a name or surname in South Asia. The naming rules file it as disliked and disputed; a scholar should decide whether it is forbidden like al-Rahman.
Confidence: low
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