Is al-Shari' one of the names of Allah?

The questioner : The term "al-Shari'" is sometimes mentioned in your books, and Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah also mentions the word "al-Shari'"; is this one of the names of Allah?

The Shaykh : This is not one of the names of Allah, but it is a statement describing an attribute; , we say, for example, in the simplest way, without denial or rejection, "Allah exists." Is the name "Existing" one of the names of Allah (Mighty and Majestic)? Of course not. What the scholars deny is that it is not permissible to name Allah (Mighty and Majestic) or describe Him except with what He has named and described Himself with. They do not mean the declarative sentence that a person utters and then stops at, describing Allah (Mighty and Majestic) as if "Existing" were one of His names, or "Legislator" were one of His names. Rather, he is conveying a pure report. This is what Ibn Taymiyyah clarifies, stating:The questioner : that he uses the word "al-Shari'" because it is a report about a concept present in the mind that a person expresses. So if someone says about Allah (Mighty and Majestic) that He is not lost and not non-existent, he has not applied a name to Allah or an attribute of His attributes. But with the word "not non-existent," he is expressing the concept of "al-Baqi" (the Everlasting), or the name "al-Baqi," or "al-Hayy al-Qayyum" (the Living, the Self-Subsisting), and the like. For this reason, such usage is not denied if it is not used as a name that came from the Salaf, or as an attribute that was explicitly stated in the Shari'ah.