ثَابِت
Boy Arabic origin Thābit
CompanionIn the Quran“Firm, steadfast, unshakeable”
The word as it is recited in the Quran: Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, Ibrahim 14:24.
Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas was the orator of the Ansar. When the verse “Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet” (49:2) was revealed, he, who spoke loudly, thought himself lost and stayed at home; the Prophet ﷺ sent word to reassure him: “Rather, he is one of the people of Paradise” (Muslim 119). He died a martyr at the Battle of al-Yamama.
Thabit is the active participle of thabata, “to hold firm, to remain stable” (root th-b-t): it describes what is solidly established and a person who remains constant, whom nothing can shake. The Quran uses it twice, in the parable of the good word, like “a good tree whose root is firm” (14:24), and to say that Allah makes the believers firm “with the firm word” (14:27). In Turkey the name is pronounced Sabit.
Yes: the word Thabit appears in the Quran 2 times, in one surah.
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًا كَلِمَةً طَيِّبَةً كَشَجَرَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ أَصْلُهَا ثَابِتٌ وَفَرْعُهَا فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ ٢٤
Have you not considered how Allāh presents an example, [making] a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky?
يُثَبِّتُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ بِٱلْقَوْلِ ٱلثَّابِتِ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَفِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ وَيُضِلُّ ٱللَّهُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ وَيَفْعَلُ ٱللَّهُ مَا يَشَآءُ ٢٧
Allāh keeps firm those who believe, with the firm word, in worldly life and in the Hereafter. And Allāh sends astray the wrongdoers. And Allāh does what He wills.
All the words of the root ث ب ت in the Quran (18 occurrences)
بَلْ هُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ "
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) noticed the absence of Thābit ibn Qays. A man said: "O Messenger of Allah, I will bring you his news." So, he went to him and saw him sitting in his house, his head drooping (sadly). He said: "What is wrong with you?" Thābit said: "An evil…
مَا شَأْنُكَ فَقَالَ شَرٌّ، كَانَ يَرْفَعُ صَوْتَهُ فَوْقَ صَوْتِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَدْ حَبِطَ عَمَلُهُ، وَهْوَ مِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ. فَأَتَى الرَّجُلُ فَأَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ كَذَا وَكَذَا.…
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Thabit in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
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This page is an aid to reflection, not a fatwa. For a personal case, ask a person of knowledge.
