Suwayd or Suwaidi may refer to: * Al Suwaidi an

Arabic given name Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from the Arabic-speaking and also Muslim countries have not had given name, given/middle name, middle/family names but rather a chain of names. This system re ...

meaning "dark-coloured, black" (from أسود "black") and the singular of the Emirati tribal name

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

. **one of the ''ansar'' (followers of Muhammad) mentioned by

Al-Waqidi Abu `Abdullah Muhammad Ibn ‘Omar Ibn Waqid al-Aslami (Arabic ) (c. 130 – 207 AH; c. 747 – 823 AD) was a historian commonly referred to as al-Waqidi (Arabic: ). His surname is derived from his grandfather's name Waqid and thus he became fa ...

**a follower of Muhammad whose name is reported as "Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd ibn Tariq" who received the injunction against alcohol in ''

Sunan Abu Dawood ''Sunan Abu Dawood'' ( ar-at, سنن أبي داود, Sunan Abī Dāwūd) is one of the ''Kutub al-Sittah'' (six major hadith collections), collected by Abu Dawud al-Sijistani (d.889). Introduction Abu Dawood compiled twenty-one books related to ...

'' (28.3864) **"Abu Suwayd and the Pretty Old Woman", a story in vol. 5 of ''1001 Nights'', see List of stories within ''One Thousand and One Nights'' *the Arabic name of

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

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