Chapter 69

Remembrance 1 from Chapter 69

The most beautiful names of Allah

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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.

Context

Abū Hurayrah Honorific symbol reported that the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol said: “Allah Honorific symbol 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].

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References
[2] Ibn Ḥajar states in Fatḥ al-Bārī (11/227) that what is meant by ‘odd-numbered’ here is the Oneness of Allah Honorific symbol, which is tawḥīd. This therefore means that He Honorific symbol is Single as regards His essence, perfection and actions and that He Honorific symbol 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).