بَدْر
Boy Arabic origin Badr
In the Quran“The full moon”; the name of the place of Islam’s first great victory
The word as it is recited in the Quran: Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, Ali ’Imran 3:123.
The Quran names Badr once: “Allah gave you victory at Badr when you were weak” (3:123). The Prophet ﷺ said of the fighters of Badr: “Perhaps Allah looked at the people of Badr and said: Do what you will, I have forgiven you” (al-Bukhari 3983).
Badr means the full moon, when it “anticipates” (badara) the sun by rising as it sets (root b-d-r). The word is also the name of a well and a place between Mecca and Medina where, in the year 2 of the Hijra, the Battle of Badr took place. The name is given alone or in compounds: Badr al-Din, “full moon of the religion”.
Yes: Badr is named in the Quran once, in one surah.
وَلَقَدْ نَصَرَكُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِبَدْرٍ وَأَنتُمْ أَذِلَّةٌ فَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ ١٢٣
And already had Allāh given you victory at [the battle of] Badr while you were weak [i.e., few in number]. Then fear Allāh; perhaps you will be grateful.
" انْطَلِقُوا حَتَّى تَأْتُوا رَوْضَةَ خَاخٍ، فَإِنَّ بِهَا امْرَأَةً مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، مَعَهَا كِتَابٌ مِنْ حَاطِبِ بْنِ أَبِي بَلْتَعَةَ إِلَى الْمُشْرِكِينَ ". فَأَدْرَكْنَاهَا تَسِيرُ عَلَى بَعِيرٍ لَهَا…
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Badr in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
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