Ḥajjāj
حجاج
Say it haj-JAAJ
Setting out; pilgrimage
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-j-j
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hajjaj, Hajaj, Haccac
Meaning & source
From ḥajj: Ibn Fāris says every setting out towards a goal is ḥajj, and the word was then kept for the journey to the Sacred House.
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فالأوّل القصد، وكل قَصْدٍ حجُّ.
Who carried this name
- al-Ḥajjāj ibn ʿIlāṭ al-Sulamī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1627 (vol. 2, p. 29)