ADIB has multiple UAE card products across cashback, Smiles, travel, student/youth, and Islamic covered-card positioning. The useful comparison starts with the exact card family.
What this means for you
Searches for ADIB credit card often mix many products together. Separating Smiles, cashback, Skywards, Etihad Guest, and covered cards makes the comparison clearer.
A simple way to decide
- 1 ADIB card family
- 2 Fees
- 3 Benefits
Before you apply
- Use card name, annual fee, minimum salary, and rewards type as the first filters.
- If you want Smiles points, compare Smiles cards separately from cashback or airline cards.
- If a bank page or key facts document does not clearly show a value, UAEBanks.org leaves that field blank instead of guessing.
Words you may see
- Covered card
- A card arranged under an Islamic banking structure.
- Profit rate
- The bank's published charge under the card's Sharia-compliant financing structure.
- KFS
- The Key Facts Statement: a bank document listing important fees, rates, and risks.
Cards worth checking for this need
These are useful starting points from the cards in the comparison table. They are not paid placements or promises of approval.
The bank publishes cashback categories or rates
- Salary
- AED 5,000
- Annual fee
- AED 999
- Cashback
- 12% back in SHARE points for first 3 months
- Published reward
- 6% back in SHARE Points at Carrefour in-store and online
The published annual fee is zero or has a stated waiver
- Salary
- AED 5,000
- Annual fee
- Free for life
- Cashback
- The ADIB Smiles Classic Card is a Sharia-compliant Visa credit card providing 4% cashback, miles rewards, airport lounge access, and a welcome offer of AED 1,000.
- Published reward
- Miles
The published salary requirement is lower than many alternatives here
- Salary
- AED 5,000
- Annual fee
- AED 299
- Cashback
- com Visa Signature Card from ADIB provides 4% cashback, airport lounge access, and miles rewards.
- Published reward
- Cashback
The bank publishes several rewards or benefits
- Salary
- AED 5,000
- Annual fee
- AED 99
- Cashback
- 4% cashback on supermarket and grocery spends, maximum AED 300 per month
- Published reward
- 4% cashback on fuel and automobile spends, maximum AED 300 per month
Official sources used
These bank pages, Key Facts Statements, fee schedules and terms support the product details in this guide. Open the latest version before applying.
- ADIB Covered Cards KFSAbu Dhabi Islamic Bank · Key-facts-statement
- ADIB Covered Cards Schedule of ChargesAbu Dhabi Islamic Bank · Schedule-of-charges