Ḥabīb
حبيب
Say it ha-BEEB
Beloved
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-b-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Habib, Habeeb
Meaning & source
Beloved; ḥubb, love, is the opposite of hatred.
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حبب: الحُبُّ: نَقِيضُ البُغْضِ.
Who carried this name
- Ḥabīb ibn Zayd al-Anṣārī, martyred by Musaylimah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1588 (vol. 2, p. 17)