Yasār
يسار
Say it ya-SAAR
Ease, not hardship
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- y-s-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Yasar, Yassar
Meaning & source
Ease: from yusr, ease, the opposite of hardship (Ibn Fāris).
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فالأول: اليُسْر: ضِدُّ العُسْر.
Who carried this name
- Abū Hind Yasār, the cupper Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 9362 (vol. 6, p. 536)
Ruling
What the scholars said about this name
The Prophet ﷺ said: “Do not name your servant boy Yasār, Rabāḥ, Najīḥ or Aflaḥ, for you will ask, ‘Is he there?’, and when he is not, the answer will be ‘No’” (Muslim 2137; also 2136). Jābir reports that the Prophet ﷺ meant to forbid names such as Yaʿlā, Barakah, Aflaḥ, Yasār and Nāfiʿ, then said nothing more about it and had not forbidden them when he died; ʿUmar later thought of forbidding them, then left it (Muslim 2138).
General guidance, not a fatwa. Ask your imam about your own family.