Sahl
سهل
Say it SAHL
Easy and smooth
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-h-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Sahl, Sahel
Meaning & source
Easy and smooth: level, soft ground, the opposite of rough terrain.
Who carried this name
- Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3546 (vol. 3, p. 167)
- Sahl ibn Ḥunayf Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3540 (vol. 3, p. 165)
Ruling
What the scholars said about this name
The Prophet ﷺ offered this name in place of Ḥazn (“rough ground”). Ḥazn, the grandfather of Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, declined it, and Saʿīd said a roughness stayed in the family afterwards.
General guidance, not a fatwa. Ask your imam about your own family.