What is the meaning of the hadith: (I ask You by every name that is Yours . . . or that You have taught any of Your creation)?

The questioner : The hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): up to the end of the hadith, until he said in it: ; does this mean that there is no . . . for this word? And does this mean that there are some among the creation who know the names by which Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has singled out one of the people?

The Shaykh : No, that is not the meaning of the hadith; because it came afterwards: , it does not mean that He has kept it to Himself and that someone knows it. But there is the hadith that came in "al-Sahihayn" in a concise form, and then came in a detailed form in "Sunan al-Tirmidhi" and others; the detailed version is not authentic, while the concise one is authentic; and it is His saying (peace and blessings be upon him): . So the names of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) upon which this true promise is contingent—that is, that whoever enumerates them will enter Paradise—are ninety-nine. But this does not mean that the names of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) are limited to ninety-nine names. We can say that the names of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) are divided into two categories: a category that He (Mighty and Majestic) has kept to Himself with His specific knowledge in which no one shares with Him, and a category that He has taught to the people, . So Allah (Mighty and Majestic), this category that pertains to the servants and the knowledge of the servants, is divided into two categories: a category in which the general Muslim public share with the select ones among them, their scholars; these are apparent in some texts of authentic hadiths, let alone in the Noble Qur'an. But there are other names in which not all people share in their knowledge, except for one who has breadth and expansiveness in knowledge. This is what is intended by , and it is not from what He (Blessed and Exalted is He) has kept to Himself. I think the intended meaning is now fully clarified.
For example, there is a hadith that says: ; so for this name, to affirm it, we must first know the hadith in which this name came, and then we must know whether this hadith is established and authentic or not. Do all people share in knowing this? The answer is: No. So whoever comes upon this hadith, and it becomes clear to him that this hadith is authentic, he knows that among His names (Blessed and Exalted is He) are al-Hannan al-Mannan. As for those who have no knowledge of it, they say that He is al-Sami' al-Basir, because these names are scattered in many verses, so all people share in knowing them. But some names that came in some texts of the Sunnah, and some of that may also be in the Qur'an, are known only by some of the select ones among the people of knowledge. This is what is meant in the hadith I mentioned earlier.
Please proceed.