Amad (Name)

Amad (transliteration: Amad, Arabic: أمد) is an Arabic name for boys that means “extent”, “duration”, “scope”, “time frame”.¹². Amad can also mean “anger”.³⁴

There is one Companion of the Prophet Muhammad named Amad:

• Amad bin Abad al-Hadhrami أمد بن أبد الحضرمي

The word Amad is used in four places in the Quran. Below are two examples:

Then We awakened them to know which of the two groups could better calculate the length [of time] of their stay.⁵

Say, “I do not know whether what you are promised is near, or whether my Lord will extend it for a period.”⁶

Below is the name Amad written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Amad written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Mukhtaar al-Sihaah by al-Razi (d. 1266 CE), entry for أمد.
2. Taaj al-Aroos by Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1790 CE), entry for أَمد.
3. Ibid.
4. Taj al-Lughah wa Sihaah al-Arabiyyah by al-Jawhari (d. 1003 CE), entry for أمد.
5. The Quran, verse 18:12.
6. The Quran, verse 72:25.