Miqdād
مقداد
Say it miq-DAAD
Name of the Companion al-Miqdād ibn ʿAmr
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Miqdad, Mikdad, Meqdad
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
Lisān al-ʿArab says only that al-Miqdād is the name of a man among the Companions; it gives no gloss.
Who carried this name
- al-Miqdād ibn ʿAmr, known as al-Miqdād ibn al-Aswad Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 8201 (vol. 6, p. 159)