Mīkāʾīl
مِيكَائِيل
Say it mee-kaa-EEL
Like ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (reported)
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- j-b-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Mikail, Mikaeel, Mikael
Meaning & source
The name of the angel Mīkāʾīl (Michael). Lisān reports from Ibn ʿAbbās that Jibrīl and Mīkāʾīl are like saying ʿAbdullāh and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
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وَرُوِيَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ فِي جِبْرِيلَ وَمِيكَائِيلَ: كَقَوْلِكَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.
Ruling
What the scholars said about this name
Ibn al-Qayyim counts the names of angels, such as Jibrīl, Mīkāʾīl and Isrāfīl, among names it is disliked to give people, and reports that Mālik disliked naming a child Jibrīl. He also quotes Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ: some scholars allowed angels’ names, among them al-Ḥārith ibn Miskīn. Ask your imam.
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class="nass margin-top-10" data-page-id="117" data-page-num="119"> فصل وَمِنْهَا كأسماء الْمَلَائِكَة كجبرائيل وَمِيكَائِيل وإسرافيل فَإِنَّهُ يكره تَسْمِيَة الْآدَمِيّين بهَا قَالَ أَشهب سُئِلَ مَالك عَن التسمي بِجِبْرِيل فكره ذَلِك وَلم يُعجبهُ وَقَالَ القَاضِي عِيَاض قد استظهر بع
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قد استظهر بعض الْعلمَاء التسمي بأسماء الْمَلَائِكَة وَهُوَ قَول الْحَارِث بن مِسْكين قَالَ وَكره مَالك التسمي بِجِبْرِيل وَيَاسِين وأباح ذَلِك غَيره قَالَ عبد الرَّزَّاق فِي الْجَامِع عَن معمر قَالَ قلت لح
General guidance, not a fatwa. Ask your imam about your own family.