ʿAbd al-Ghanī
عَبْدُ الغَنِيِّ
Say it ab-dul-gha-NEE
Servant of the Self-Sufficient
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- gh-n-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Abdulghani, Abdul Ghani, Abdelghani
Meaning & source
Servant of al-Ghanī, the Self-Sufficient: “the One who needs no one, while everyone needs Him” (Ibn al-Athīr, in Lisān).
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غنا: فِي أَسْماء اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: الغَنِيُّ
Who carried this name
- ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī, the ḥadīth master al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (Muʾassasat al-Risālah ed.), vol. 21, p. 443 (entry 235)
Ruling
What the scholars said about this name
Names that make a child the servant (ʿabd) of one of Allah’s names are among the best names. Ibn al-Qayyim quotes Ibn Ḥazm: the scholars agree that names joined to Allah, such as ʿAbdullāh and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, are commendable. The Prophet ﷺ said the names most beloved to Allah are ʿAbdullāh and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (Muslim 2132).
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اتَّفقُوا على اسْتِحْسَان الْأَسْمَاء المضافة إِلَى الله كَعبد الله وعب الرَّحْمَن وَمَا أشبه ذَلِك فقد اخْتلف الْفُقَهَاء فِي أحب الْأَسْمَاء إِلَى الله فَقَالَ الْجُمْهُور أحبها إِلَيْهِ عبد الله وَعبد الرَّحْم
General guidance, not a fatwa. Ask your imam about your own family.