Sufyān
سفيان
Say it suf-YAAN
Name of the Companion Sufyān ibn ʿAbdillāh al-Thaqafī
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Sufyan, Sofian, Soufiane
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
Lisān al-ʿArab lists Sufyān as a man’s name (with kasr, fatḥ or ḍamm) under s-f-y but gives it no gloss.
Who carried this name
- Sufyān ibn ʿAbdillāh al-Thaqafī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3326 (vol. 3, p. 104)