يَوْمَ يَأْتِ لَا تَكَلَّمُ نَفْسٌ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِۦ فَمِنْهُمْ شَقِىٌّ وَسَعِيدٌ ١٠٥
The Day it comes no soul will speak except by His permission. And among them will be the wretched and the prosperous.
سَعِيد
Saeed: meaning of the name
Boy Arabic origin Saʿīd
CompanionIn the Quran“Happy, fortunate”, the blessed one
The word as it is recited in the Quran: Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, Hud 11:105.
Saeed in Islam
Saʿid ibn Zayd, one of the first Muslims, was married to ʿUmar’s sister; he used to tell how ʿUmar had tied him up because of his Islam before embracing Islam himself (al-Bukhari 3862). He is one of the ten Companions to whom the Prophet ﷺ gave the good news of Paradise (al-Tirmidhi 3748). The Quran uses the word saʿid only once: “Among them will be the wretched and the happy” (11:105).
Meaning of the name Saeed
Saʿid is an adjective from the root s-ʿ-d of happiness and good omen (saʿd, saʿada): it means a happy, fulfilled man and, in religious language, one who is blessed in the hereafter, as opposed to the shaqi, the wretched. It should not be confused with Saʿd, an older name from the same root, nor with Sayyid, “master”. The name was borne by great scholars of early Islam such as Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib and Saʿid ibn Jubayr.
- In Arabic
- سَعِيد سعيد
- Transliteration
- Saʿīd
- Root
- س ع د · 2 occurrences in the Quran
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Arabic
Is Saeed in the Quran?
Yes: the word Saeed appears in the Quran once, in one surah.
All the words of the root س ع د in the Quran (2 occurrences)
In the hadiths
Authentic
Sahih al-Bukhari 3862
I heard Sa`id bin Zaid bin `Amr bin Nufail saying in the mosque of Al-Kufa. "By Allah, I have seen myself tied and forced by `Umar to leave Islam before `Umar himself embraced Islam. And if the mountain of Uhud could move from its place for the evil which you people have done to `Uthman, then it…
وَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي وَإِنَّ عُمَرَ لَمُوثِقِي عَلَى الإِسْلاَمِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسْلِمَ عُمَرُ، وَلَوْ أَنَّ أُحُدًا ارْفَضَّ لِلَّذِي صَنَعْتُمْ بِعُثْمَانَ لَكَانَ مَحْقُوقًا أَنْ يَرْفَضَّ.
Authentic
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3748
from his father, that Sa'eed bin Zaid reported to him, while in a group of people, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Ten are in Paradise: Abu Bakr is in Paradise, 'Umar is in Paradise. 'Ali and 'Uthman are in Paradise. Az-Zubair and Talhah, 'Abdur-Rahman, Abu 'Ubaidah and Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas"…
" عَشَرَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَعُمَرُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَعُثْمَانُ وَعَلِيٌّ وَالزُّبَيْرُ وَطَلْحَةُ وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ وَأَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَسَعْدُ بْنُ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ " . قَالَ فَعَدَّ…
Is this name permissible?
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Saeed in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
Read the rules for choosing a name
This page is an aid to reflection, not a fatwa. For a personal case, ask a person of knowledge.
Writing Saeed in each language
- French
- Saïd, Said, Saeed
- English
- Saeed, Said
- Spanish
- Said, Saíd
- Turkish
- Said, Sait
- Arabic
- سَعِيد
