99 Names of Allah in the Hadith While the Quran does not explicitly use the phrase “99 names of Allah”, Muhammad is reported to have said Allah has 99 names, There are ninety-nine names of Allah; he who commits them to memory would get into Paradise. Verily, Allah is Odd (He is one, and it is an odd number) and He loves odd number. A list of names in which the categories include 99 names of allah.

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The Quran talks about 'beautiful names of Allah' and the hadiths further specify that there is exactly 99 names. Muslims are supposed to learn these names of Allah, but Muhammad didn't offer the full list of these names. Islamic scholars had to rely on ijtihad (independent judgement) to find these names in the Quran and sunnah and different scholars came up with different lists. Out of the supposed 99 names of Allah, they altogether found at least 276 names.

The phrase 'beautiful names of Allah' mentioned in the Qur'an

The Quran says that Allah has beautiful names (الأسماء الحسنى, al-asmaa' ul-husnaa), but doesn't specify what these names are and how many.

Hadith

There are many hadith claiming Allah has 99 names, this is one of them from Sahih Bukhari:

Some apologetic sources (including Wikipedia) claim that according to the hadith, there are at least 99 names. But the hadith doesn't say 'at least'. It says simply ninety-nine (تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ) and adds that it's one hundred minus one, which seems to emphasize, that it is exactly 99 and not 100 or more. And the hadith also says that who memorizes all these names would go to paradise - though it is not know which these 99 are.

The popular list

Source

The most popular list of 99 names of Allah among Muslims (which is also used on the English Wikipedia) seems to be a list from a weak (da'if) hadith from the collection of Tirmidhi.

This hadith is weak. Tirmidhi wrote about it:

Ibn Taimiyya said:

The list

The list (which is based on a weak hadith) is attractive at first blush, because it contains references to the Quran, but the list loses it charm when one discovers that in some of these references the word is not actually present in the Arabic Quran. When there is more verses containing the name, only one exemplary verse is mentioned. But if there is more verses and none of them actually mentions the name, all of them are mentioned in the list with the addition '(it's not there)'.

Problems

It is based on a weak hadith

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Some names are not actually beautiful

Some of the names, like 'The Harmer', even with apologetic translation by Muslims, doesn't seem to be beautiful.

Some names are strange

Why is one of his names 'The Believer' (المؤمن)?

Duplicates

The verse 55:27 is considered as an instance of both 'ذو الجلال والإكرام' and 'الجليل'. It is not clear what the difference could be between الغفور and الغفار or between 'مالك' and 'مالك الملك'

Are they all really names?

Arabic doesn't use capital letters for names. So a noun could be understood both as a proper noun or as a regular noun. For example the Arabic name Abdullah (عبد الله) could be understood as the name 'Abdullah', but it could also be understood literally 'slave of god'. In the same way some of the 'names of Allah' could be simply his characteristics, not names. In the same way we can understand 'الله الرحيم' as both 'Allah, The Merciful' and 'merciful Allah'. That is also a reason why finding the names in the Quran by ijtihad cannot result in a conclusive answer.

Some names are not actually mentioned in the Quran

Many of the names in the column 'In Arabic' are not actually in the Arabic Quran. These names are marked with '(it's not there)' in the table.

Looking at, for example, the last name of Allah, الصبور (The Patient).

First, it's supposed to be in the verse 2:153:

O you who have believed, seek help through patience (بالصبر) and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with the patient.

The word الصبور doesn't exist in the verse. The word الصبر exists there, but it means 'patience', not 'the patient one'. And if based on this verse 'Patience' is a name of Allah, then why not 'The Prayer'? The verse talks about patience and prayer in the same context.

The next verse that supposedly includes the word الصبور is this one:

This was a verb and it was a command for the believers, not a name of Allah.

Next verse:

Again it's the word الصبر (the patience), not الصبور (the patient one) and it's not a name of Allah. It's just a command for believers to advise each other to be patient.

Nowhere in the Quran is الصبور mentioned as being the name of Allah, that means the 99th name in this list is wrong and therefore the whole list is unreliable. We could analyze many more of these supposed 'names' how they are not actually in the Quran. They are easier ones to debunk, for example The Preventer (المانع) doesn't exist in the verse 67:21, and is not a verb derived from the same root منع. Although the word 'Preventer' exists in the Quran (50:25 and 68:12), but it is written as مناع, not مانع and it says 'preventer of good' about disbelievers.

Other names not mentioned in the list

Analyzing the list, we see that some of the 'names of Allah' don't seem to be proper names, but just simply nouns like 'patience'. And also sometimes the 'name of Allah' is derived from a verb occurring in the Quran. Using the same tactics, we could find many more names of Allah in the Quran.For example, the verse 8:17 says Allah killed people, so why not take this verb and say that Allah's name is القاتل (al-qaatil, The Killer)?

And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, [O Muhammad], when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

The Qur'an also terms Allah as The Best of Deceivers (khayru al-makireena). For obvious reasons, this name is not there in the above list.

Arabic: ومكروا ومكر الله والله خير الماكرين

Transliteration: Wamakaroo wamakara Allahu waAllahu khayru almakireena

We could find many other names of Allah in the Quran. The list doesn't contain the word 'Allah' (الله).

Contradictions

God is just and forgiving at the same time. But absolute justice means punishment of all crimes no matter how small, while absolute forgiveness means to forgive everything and not to punish at all.

Contingency upon creation

Allah supposedly existed before he created the world. So his attributes must be indipendent on his creation. But many of the names are relational. God can't effectively be for example 'merciful' if there is no creation to be merciful upon. How was he 'hearing' when nothing existed except him?

Other lists

The Arabic Wikipedia article contains more than 10 different lists by various Islamic scholars. Some of those lists contain the name 'Best of deceivers' (خير الماكرين). The lists together contain 276 names of Allah and one can comfortably assume that there are other lists with more names.

Beautiful names of Muhammad

Beautiful names are not limited for Allah. Muhammad also has his portion:

Jubair b. Mut'im reported on the authority of his father that he heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

I am Muhammad and I am Ahmad, and I am al-Mahi (the obliterator) by whom unbelief would be obliterated, and I am Hashir (the gatherer) at whose feet mankind will be gathered, and I am 'Aqib (the last to come) after whom there will be no Prophet.

There are many more such names:

See also

External:

References

1. ↑https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83/
2. ↑http://quranx.com/59.23
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5. ↑http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=Amn
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17. ↑3. Ali-Imran - The Family Of 'Imran (سورة آل عمران) - Revealed in Madinah (English: Literal) - IslamicNature, accessed August 25, 2011

The first pillar of Imaan (faith) in Islam is the Belief in Allah. As Muslims, we believe in Allah in accordance with His beautiful names and attributes. Allah has revealed His names which are 99 Names of ALLAH repeatedly in the Holy Quran primarily for us to understand who He is.

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“And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them.”

(Surat Al-A’raf 7:180)

“He is Allah, the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner, to Him belong the best names.”

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(Quran 59:24)

Abu Huraira reported Prophet Muhammad SAW as saying: Verily, there are ninety-nine names for Allah, i.e. hundred excepting one. He who enumerates them would get into Paradise. And Hammam has made this addition on the authority of Abu Huraira who reported it from Prophet Muhammad SAW that he said: “He is Odd (one) and loves odd number.”

(Sahih Muslim – Book 35 Hadith 6476)

Narrated Abu Huraira: Prophet Muhammad SAW said, “Allah has ninety-nine names, i.e. one-hundred minus one, and whoever knows them will go to Paradise.”

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(Sahih Al-Bukhari – Book 50 Hadith 894)

99 names of Allah – Meaning and Explanation

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