Is the name "Rakan" Arabic or foreign, and is it disliked to name with a foreign name?
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We have not found anything to indicate that Arabs were named "Rakan." However, a name similar to it, "Rukanah," was found, as in the name of the Companion Rukanah ibn Abd Yazid.
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