Asbaq (Name)

Asbaq (transliteration: Asbaq, Arabic: أسبق) is an Arabic name for boy that means “advanced”, “ahead of the rest”, and figuratively “one who achieves something/reaches something before anyone else”. It is the comparative and superlative form of sābiq, whic means “first”, “foremost” (as in the first horse in a race).¹

There is one Companion of the Prophet Muhammad named Asbaq:

• Asbaq (freed slave of Umar ibn al-Khattab) أسبق مولى عمر ابن الخطاب

Below is the name Asbaq written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Asbaq written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Ghareeb al-Hadeeth by Abu Ubaid al-Qaasim bin Salam al-Harawi (d. 838 CE), entry for سبق.