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The Most Beautiful Names Belong To Allaah ­ Part 1
From theLessons on Explanation of Kitaab ut-Tawheed of Shaikh Muhammad Ibn `Abdul
Wahhaab1
By Dawood Burbank




Allaah the Most Exalted said:


"To Allaah belongs the Most Perfect and Beautiful Names, so worship Him in
accordance with them and call on Him by them, and abandon those who
deviate with regard to His Names." [Al-A'raaf (7:180)]


Aboo Hurairah (radiallaahu `anhu) reported that Allaah's Messenger (sallallaahu `alaihi
wasallam) said:

"Allaah has ninety-nine Names, one-hundred except for one. Whoever
correctly preserves them and acts in accordance with them will enter
Paradise." [Reported by al-Bukhaaree and Muslim]


The addition, that actually gives the list of Names after it, reported by at-Tirmidhee, Ibn
Majaah, Ibn Khuzaimah, Ibn Hibbaan and others, is not authentic from the Prophet
(sallallaahu `alaihi wasallam). Rather, it was from the ijtihaad of some of the scholars.

The scholars, from the early times right until this day, have striven to look through the
Book of Allaah and the authentic Sunnah to extract these ninety-nine Names. So each
scholar has come with a slightly different list of Names and no one scholar will be able to
say `This is definitely the list'. This is why the scholars have continued to strive in that
regard right until this time.

One of the scholars in current times was shaikh Muhammad Ibn Saaleh al-`Uthaimeen
(rahimahullaah) in his book, Al-Qawaa'id ul-Muthlaa. He produced a list, hoping to fall
into this hadeeth.

One of the parts of hifdh, correctly preserving these Names, is to look for these Names and
to compile them. Shaikh Ibn al-`Uthaimeen (rahimahullaah) compiled a list of ninety-nine
Names ­ not to say that Allaah's Names, as we have heard many times, are restricted to

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these ninety-nine, but hoping and striving to establish the ninety-nine Names which are
given that promise, that whoever preserves them correctly and acts upon them will enter
Paradise.


The shaikh brings a list of eighty-one Names extracted from the Book of Allaah, the
Qur'aan. The last eighteen, numbers eighty-two to ninety-nine are extracted from the
authentic Sunnah.

(Al-Qawaa'id ul-Muthlaa)

He (rahimahullaah) says, from the Book of Allaah, the Most High are:


1. - The first Name, Allaah

2. (Al-Ahad) - The Unique

3. (Al-A'laa) - The Most High

4. (Al-Akram) - The Most Generous

5. (Al-Ilah) - The One Who Alone Deserves to be Worshipped

6. (Al-Awwal) - The First

7. (Al-Aakhir) - The Last

8. (Adh-Dhaahir) - The Uppermost One

9. (Al-Baatin) - The Innermost One

10. (Al-Baari') - The Originator

11.

(Al-Barr) - The Most Benign and Kind

12. (Al-Baseer) - The All Seeing

13. (At-Tawwaab) - The One Who Guides His Servants to Repent and
Accepts Their Repentance

14. (Al-Jabbaar) - The Exalted and All Mighty Compeller

15.
(Al-Haafidh) - The Protector

16. (Al-Haseeb) - The Reckoner Who Suffices

17. (Al-Hafeedh) - The Guardian

18. (Al-Hafee) - The Benevolent

19. (Al-Haqq) - The True One

20. (Al-Mubeen) - The Clear and Manifest One

21. (Al-Hakeem) - The One Fully Wise or Al-Haakim, The All-Wise

22. (Al-Haleem) - The Forbearing

23. (Al-Hameed) - The One Who is Deservedly Praised

24. (Al-Hayy) - The Ever Living

25. (Al-Qayyoom) - The Self Subsisting One Upon Whom Everything
Depends

26. (Al-Khabeer) - The Fully Aware

27. (Al-Khaaliq) - The Creator and Maker of Everything

28. (Al-Khallaaq) - The Creator Who Creates Again and Again

29. (Ar-Ra'oof) - The Compassionate and Kind

30. (Ar-Rahmaan) - The Extremely Merciful

31. (Ar-Raheem) - The Bestower of Mercy

32. (Ar-Razzaaq) - The Great Provider

33. (Ar-Raqeeb) - The Ever Watchful Guardian

34. (As-Salaam) - The Impeccable One or the Flawless One

35. (As-Samee') - The All Hearing

36. (Ash-Shaakir) - The Appreciative

37. (Ash-Shakoor) - The One Most Ready to Appreciate and Reward
Abundantly

38. (Ash-Shaheed) - The Witness

39. (As-Samad) - The Perfect Lord and Master Upon Whom All of the
Creation Depends

40. (Al-`Aalim) - The All Knower of the Seen and the Unseen

41. (Al-`Azeez) - The All Mighty or the Invincible

42. (Al-Adheem) - The Tremendous One or the Magnificent

43. (Al-`Afuww) - The One Who Pardons Again and Again

44. (Al-`Aleem) - The All Knowing

45. (Al-`Alee) - The Exalted

46. (Al-Ghaffaar) - The Oft-Forgiving

47. (Al-Ghafoor) - The One Who Forgives Extensively

48. (Al-Ghanee) - The Independent One Who is Free of All Needs

49. (Al-Fattaah) - The Judge and Opener Who Distinguishes the
Truth from Falsehood

50. (Al-Qaadir) - The Fully Able One

51. (Al-Qaahir) - The Invincible Subduer

52. (Al-Quddoos) - The Pure and Perfect

53. (Al-Qadeer) - The All Powerful

54. (Al-Qareeb) - The One Who is Near

55. (Al-Qawee) - The One Perfect in Strength

56. (Al-Qahhaar) - The Overwhelming Subduer Who is Never
Overcome

57. (Al-Kabeer) - The Incomparably Great

58. (Al-Kareem) - The Bountiful, the Generous One Abundant in
Good

59. (Al-Lateef) - The Subtle and Kind

60. (Al-Mu'min) - The True and Trustworthy, the Granter of Security

61. (Al-Muta'aalee) - The Supreme and Exalted One

62. (Al-Mutakabbir) - The One Supreme in Glory, the Justly and
Rightfully Proud

63. (Al-Mateen) - The Strong

64. (Al-Mujeeb) - The Responsive

65. (Al-Majeed) - The One Perfect in Glory and Honour

66. (Al-Muheet) - The All Encompassing

67. (Al-Mussawwir) - The Bestower of Forms

68. (Al-Muqtadir) - The Omnipotent

69. (Al-Muqeet) - The All Powerful Maintainer

70. (Al-Malik) - The King

71. (Al-Maleek) - The Omnipotent Sovereign

72. (Al-Mawlaa) - The Patron Lord or the Master and Supporter

73. (Al-Muhaymin) - The Trustworthy and Ever Watchful Witness

74. (An-Naseer) - The Helper

75. (Al-Waahid) - The One and Only

76. (Al-Waarith) - The Inheritor

77. (Al-Waasi') - The Vast One

78. (Al-Wudood) - The Loving One and the Beloved One

79. (Al-Wakeel) - The Trustworthy Disposer of Affairs

80. (Al-Walee) - The Guardian Lord

81. (Al-Wahhaab) - The Bestower


From the Sunnah of Allaah's Messenger (sallallaahu `alaihi wasallam):


82. (Al-Jameel) - The Beautiful One

83. (Al-Jawaad) - The Munificent

84. (Al-Hakam) - The Judge

85. (Al-Hayyiyu) - the One who possesses honourable shame

86. (Ar-Rabb) - The Lord and Nurturer

87.
(Ar-Rafeeq) - The Gentle

88. (As-Sabbooh) - The Venerated and Perfect

89. (As-Sayyid) ­ The Lord and Master

90. (Ash-Shafee') - The One Who Cures

91. (At-Tayyib) - The Pure One

92. (Al-Qaabid) - The Withholder

93. (Al-Baasit) - The Granter of Ample Provision

94. (Al-Muqaddim) - The One Who Gives Precedence

95. (Al-Mu'akhkhir) - The One Who Puts Back

96. (Al-Muhsin) - The One Who Acts in a Good and Fine Manner

97. (Al-Mu'tee) - The Giver

98. (Al-Mannaan) - The Beneficent Bestower of Bounties

99. (Al-Witr) - The One


With regard to an explanation of these Names, a number of books have been written in
this present age depending upon earlier books. The following explanations are based upon
these references.

1. Jaami' ul-Bayaan - The tafseer of Ibn Jareer at-Tabari
2. The tafseer of Ibn Katheer
3. Tayseer ul-Kareem ir-Rahmaan - The Tafseer of as-Sa'dee
4. The Tafseer of Al-Baghawee
5. Majmoo' ul- Fataawa - Shaikh ul-Islaam, Ibn Taymiyyah
6. An-Nooniyah - the poem by Ibn Al-Qayyim
7. I'dat us-Saabireen - also of Ibn Al-Qayyim
8. Ar-rad `ala al-Jahmiyyah - of Imaam Ahmad
9. Bada'i ul-Fawaa'id - of Ibn ul-Qayyim
10. Sha'n ud-Du'aa - of Al-Khattabee
11. Tafseer Asmaa Illaahi il-Husnaa - of az-Zajjaj
12. Al-Hujjah fee Bayaan il-Mahajjah of Qiwam us-Sunnah of al -Asbahaani
13. At-Tawheed - of Ibn Mandah
14. An-Nihayah - of Ibn Al-Atheer
15. Tafseer Ghareeb il-Qur'aan - of Ibn Qutaybah
16. Al-Mufradaat - of ar-Raghib
17. Lisaan ul-`Arab - of Ibn Mandhur
18. Al-Haqq ul-Waadih ul-Mubeen - of as-Sa'dee (rahimahumullaah)



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