Muṭīʿ
مطيع
Say it mu-TEE
Obedient, willing
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ṭ-w-ʿ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Muti, Mutee, Mutie
Meaning & source
Obedient: ṭawʿ, willing compliance, is the opposite of compulsion (Lisān).
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طوع: الطَّوْعُ: نَقِيضُ الكَرْهِ.
Who carried this name
- Muṭīʿ ibn al-Aswad al-ʿAdawī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 8049 (vol. 6, p. 105)
Ruling
What the scholars said about this name
His name was al-ʿĀṣī (“the disobedient”), and the Messenger of God ﷺ renamed him Muṭīʿ (“obedient”) (Muslim 1782b).
General guidance, not a fatwa. Ask your imam about your own family.