ALLAH 
SAYS, “And Allah’s are the Most Beautiful Names.” [1].
SAYS, “And Allah’s are the Most Beautiful Names.” [1].
Abū Hurayrah 
reported that the Messenger of Allah 
said: “Allah has ninety-nine Names: one hundred minus one. Whoever memorises them will enter Paradise. He is Single [2].and He loves the odd-numbered.” [3].
reported that the Messenger of Allah said: “Allah has ninety-nine Names: one hundred minus one. Whoever memorises them will enter Paradise. He is Single [2].and He loves the odd-numbered.” [3].
Huwa-llāhu-lladhī lā ilāha illā Hū, ar-Raḥmān, ar-Raḥīm, al-Malik, al-Quddūs, as-Salām, al-Mu’min, al-Muhaymin, al-‘Azīz, al-Jabbār, al-Mutakabbir, al-Khāliq, al-Bāri’, al-Muṣawwir, al-Ghaffār, al-Qahhār, al-Wahhāb, ar-Razzāq, al-Fattāḥ, al-‘Alīm, al-Qābiḍ, al-Bāsiṭ, al-Khāfiḍ, ar-Rāfi‘, al-Mu‘izz, al-Mudhill, as-Samī‘, al-Baṣīr, al-Ḥakam, al-‘Adl, al-Laṭīf, al-Khabīr, al-Ḥalīm, al-‘Aẓīm, al-Ghafūr, ash-Shakūr, al-‘Alī, al-Kabīr, al-Ḥafīẓ, al-Muqīt, al-Ḥasīb, al-Jalīl, al-Karīm, ar-Raqīb, al-Mujīb, al-Wāsi‘, al-Ḥakīm, al-Wadūd, al-Majīd, al-Bā‘ith, ash-Shahīd, al-Ḥaqq, al-Wakīl, al-Qawī, al-Matīn, al-Walī, al-Ḥamīd, al-Muḥṣī, al-Mubdi’, al-Mu‘īd, al-Muḥyī, al-Mumīt, al-Ḥayy, al-Qayyūm, al-Wājid, al-Mājid, al-Wāḥid, al-Aḥad, aṣ-Ṣamad, al-Qādir, al-Muqtadir, al-Muqaddim, al-Mu’akhkhir, al-Awwal, al-Ākhir, aẓ-Ẓāhir, al-Bāṭin, al-Wālī, al-Muta‘āliy, al-Barr, at-Tawwāb, al-Muntaqim, al-‘Afuww, ar-Ra’ūf, Māliku-l-Mulk, Dhu-l-Jalāli wa-l-Ikrām, al-Muqsiṭ, al-Jāmi‘, al-Ghanī, al-Mughnī, al-Māni‘, aḍ-Ḍārr, an-Nāfi‘, an-Nūr, al-Hādī, al-Badī‘, al-Bāqī, al-Wārith, ar-Rashīd, aṣ-Ṣabūr.
Al-Muqīt, with the letters qāf and tā’, has been narrated instead of al-Mughīth. Al-Qarīb has been narrated instead of ar-Raqīb and al-Mubīn with a bā’ instead of al-Matīn with tā’; but the best known is with tā’.
The meaning of aḥsāhā is ‘memorised them’. That is the explanation that al-Bukhārī and the majority have given. This explanation is corroborated by a narration in the Ṣaḥīḥ that says, ‘Whoever memorises them (man ḥafiẓahā). . . will enter Paradise’. It is also said to apply to anyone who knows their meanings and believes in them, and to anyone who is able to pay due attention to them and to embody them as much as he can in his actions.
References
[1] Qur’ān 7:180.
[2] Ibn Ḥajar states in Fatḥ al-Bārī (11/227) that what is meant by ‘odd-numbered’ here is the Oneness of Allah , which is tawḥīd. This therefore means that He is Single as regards His essence, perfection and actions and that He loves tawḥīd.
, which is tawḥīd. This therefore means that He is Single as regards His essence, perfection and actions and that He loves tawḥīd.[3] Al-Bukhārī (6410) and Muslim (2677), up to the words “. . .loves odd numbers”. The rest of the hadith is reported by at-Tirmidhī (3502), who states that this hadith is gharīb. It was narrated by Ṣafwān, who is trustworthy, and who narrated it from more than one person. We only know of it from his transmission. There is another transmission via Abū Hurayrah, and we do not know of any mention of the names in the narration except in this transmission. It is reported via another chain from Abū Hurayrah containing the mention of the names, but it does not have a ṣaḥīḥ chain. It was also reported by Ibn Ḥibbān (2382 Mawārid az-zamān), al-Ḥākim (1/16), and Ibn Mājah (3861). Al-Būṣīrī states in az-Zawā ’ id that none of the six Imams report the number of Allah’s Beautiful Names in this way except for Ibn Mājah and at-Tirmidhī, with some differences in their order. At-Tirmidhī’s chain is the most authentic, as that of Ibn Mājah contains some weakness. See Jāmi‘ al-uṣūl (4/174).