Qāsim
قَاسِم
Say it QAA-sim
One who shares out
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- q-s-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Qasim, Kasim, Qassim
Meaning & source
One who divides and shares out: from qasm, dividing a thing into shares.
The Prophet ﷺ said, “I am only a qāsim (one who distributes), and Allah gives” (Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 71). His kunyah was Abū al-Qāsim.
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قسم: القَسْمُ: مَصْدَرُ قَسَمَ الشيءَ يَقْسِمُه قَسْماً فانْقَسَمَ، وَالْمَوْضِعُ مَقْسِم مِثَالُ مَجْلِسٍ
Who carried this name
- al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, one of the jurists of Madinah al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (Muʾassasat al-Risālah ed.), vol. 5, p. 53 (entry 18)
Ruling
What the scholars said about this name
A man among Jābir’s people named his son al-Qāsim, and people refused to call him Abū al-Qāsim, the Prophet’s own kunya. The Prophet ﷺ told him: “Name your son ʿAbd al-Raḥmān” (Bukhārī 6189). Al-Bukhārī places this under the chapter “Name yourselves with my name, but do not take my kunya”: the concern was the kunya Abū al-Qāsim.
General guidance, not a fatwa. Ask your imam about your own family.