Musayyab
مسيب
Say it mu-SAY-yab
Set free
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-y-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Musayyab, Musayyib, Mussayab
Meaning & source
Let go freely: Ibn Fāris says sayyabtu al-dābbah is to leave an animal to go where it will.
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ويقال سيَّبت الدّابّة: تركتُه حيث شاء.
Who carried this name
- al-Musayyab ibn Ḥazn, father of Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 8014 (vol. 6, p. 96)