Abān
أبان
Say it a-BAAN
Name of the Companion Abān ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Aban, Abaan
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
Lisān al-ʿArab names Abān as a mountain but gives no gloss for the personal name, and Maqāyīs al-Lughah’s root ʾ-b-n (knots; praising the dead) does not settle it. We have left the meaning blank.
Who carried this name
- Abān ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 2 (vol. 1, p. 168)