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[1] See An-Nisā' 4:31.
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[2] Hakīm; scholars differ over whether this is a description or a name. If it were a description, then it means a wise man. In Al-Isābah Al-Hāfiz Ibn Hajar said: "Hakīm Al-Ash'arī: I do not know of any information about him, except what occurs in the Two Sahīh, in the Hadīth of Abū Mūsā Al-Ash'arī, who said: 'The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "I recognize the voices of a group of the Ash'arīs when they recite Qur'ān, when they enter at night," - meaning in the Masjid - "Among them is a Hakīm, who, when he meets the horsemen' - so he mentioned the Hadīth." And Al-Hāfiz also said there: "Ibn At-Tin, and others among those who explained Al-Bukhārī, said that his saying: 'Among them is a Hakīm' is a description of a man among them, not a name. And this was reported by 'Iyād from his Shaikh, Abū 'Alī Aṣ-Ṣadafī." An-Nawawī said similar to this. See also Fath Al-Bārī (no. 4232) where he said that: "when they enter at night" means when they enter their homes after going out to the Masjid or for some work and then return, and he cited that from an-Nawawī, while what is with us in the commentary of