Hadith 7392

Allāh has one hundred Names less One (ninety-nine)(1).

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Darussalam · Volume 9

97 - THE BOOK OF TAUHĪD

Sahih al-Bukhari Darussalam English translation

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Shamela Arabic edition

الحديث: 7392 ¦ الجزء: 9 ¦ الصفحة: 118

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English translation

7392. Narrated Abū Hurairah رضي الله عنه: Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ said, “Allāh has ninety-nine Names, one-hundred less one; and he who memorized them all by heart will enter Paradise.”(2) To count something means to know it by heart. (1) (H.Ch.12) Imām Bukhārī knows very well the Aḥādīth mentioning in detail the ninety-nine Names of Allāh quoted by Tirmīdī but that Ḥadīth did not come up to the standard of his selection of Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī so he took Allāh’s Names from the Verses of the Qur’ān either as adjectives or from the verbs of the Verses or from the Prophet’s Sunna.

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7392 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو اليَمَانِ، أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «إِنَّ لِلَّهِ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ اسْمًا، مِائَةً إِلَّا وَاحِدًا، مَنْ أَحْصَاهَا دَخَلَ الجَنَّةَ» أَحْصَيْنَاهُ حَفِظْنَاهُ

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(2) (H.7392) Memorizing Allāh’s Names means to believe in those Qualities of Allāh derived from those Names and should be accompanied by good deeds which Allāh’s Names inspire us to do. Just knowing Allāh’s Names by heart, will not make a vicious man enter Paradise. Therefore, the word ‘memorized’ in the Ḥadīth means to behave in accordance with the implications of Allāh’s Names.