What is the Greatest Name of Allah mentioned in the hadith?
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The questioner : The Greatest Name of Allah?
The Shaykh : ... in the Verse of the Throne.
The questioner : The one mentioned in the hadith is not specified, if the Imam said...
Eid Abbasi : A combination of several names, meaning a formula composed of several names.
The Shaykh : Allah knows best, Allah is the Greatest Name.
Eid Abbasi : But the verse...
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Eid Abbasi : That a man supplicated: O Allah, I ask You by the fact that You are Allah, there is no god but You, the One, the Self-Sufficient, who begets not, nor was He begotten, and so on. He said:Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 18:55, so he did not say merely in his supplication: O Allah, but rather he mentioned that You are Allah, the One, and so on, meaning it seemed to him that the Greatest Name is composed of several names of Allah in a specific formula.
The Shaykh : Where did that feeling come from?
Eid Abbasi : From this hadith.
The Shaykh : What does he say?
Eid Abbasi : That a man came and supplicated, saying: O Allah, I ask You by the fact that You are Allah, there is no god but He, the One, the Self-Sufficient, who begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none comparable to Him. He said:Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 18:55; the Prophet's (peace be upon him) comment on the man's supplication is what explains it.
The Shaykh : Yes, how is this...?
Eid Abbasi : A practical matter, he supplicated with this formula.
The Shaykh : No, no... in reality, he did not ask him about the Greatest Name and he said so and so. There is a difference between answering a question, in which case your understanding is correct, and reporting a reality. So if he read Surat al-Baqarah and said: it contains the Greatest Name of Allah.
The questioner : Do we say all of al-Baqarah?
Eid Abbasi: No.
The Shaykh : But if he asked him: Where is the Greatest Name of Allah? and he read Surat al-Baqarah from beginning to end, and you read all of it except one verse at the end, you cannot be certain that you have hit upon the Greatest Name.
And, my brother?
Another questioner: Go ahead.
Eid Abbasi : Yes, I remember the hadith is reported like this...
Another questioner : ... .
Another questioner : ... he charged him ten thousand Syrian pounds for this shop and this building... ten thousand to sell it in the black market... for twenty thousand Syrian pounds, and the buyer likewise... the calculation is that these are worth this much in the market.
Another questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
Another questioner : If you allow me to say a word before that, the original ruling on loans was not known before, and its origin... is that people deviated from the Shari'ah contract in buying and selling, leasing and hiring, and the new reality in which people deviated from the Shari'ah contract is that they neglected the factor of time, so the contract has parties and... and time, so they made the...
The Shaykh : ... in the Verse of the Throne.
The questioner : The one mentioned in the hadith is not specified, if the Imam said...
Eid Abbasi : A combination of several names, meaning a formula composed of several names.
The Shaykh : Allah knows best, Allah is the Greatest Name.
Eid Abbasi : But the verse...
...
Eid Abbasi : That a man supplicated: O Allah, I ask You by the fact that You are Allah, there is no god but You, the One, the Self-Sufficient, who begets not, nor was He begotten, and so on. He said:
He supplicated to Allah with His Greatest Name
لقد دعا الله باسمه الأعظمThe Shaykh : Where did that feeling come from?
Eid Abbasi : From this hadith.
The Shaykh : What does he say?
Eid Abbasi : That a man came and supplicated, saying: O Allah, I ask You by the fact that You are Allah, there is no god but He, the One, the Self-Sufficient, who begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none comparable to Him. He said:
He supplicated to Allah with His Greatest Name
لقد دعا الله باسمه الأعظمThe Shaykh : Yes, how is this...?
Eid Abbasi : A practical matter, he supplicated with this formula.
The Shaykh : No, no... in reality, he did not ask him about the Greatest Name and he said so and so. There is a difference between answering a question, in which case your understanding is correct, and reporting a reality. So if he read Surat al-Baqarah and said: it contains the Greatest Name of Allah.
The questioner : Do we say all of al-Baqarah?
Eid Abbasi: No.
The Shaykh : But if he asked him: Where is the Greatest Name of Allah? and he read Surat al-Baqarah from beginning to end, and you read all of it except one verse at the end, you cannot be certain that you have hit upon the Greatest Name.
And, my brother?
Another questioner: Go ahead.
Eid Abbasi : Yes, I remember the hadith is reported like this...
Another questioner : ... .
Another questioner : ... he charged him ten thousand Syrian pounds for this shop and this building... ten thousand to sell it in the black market... for twenty thousand Syrian pounds, and the buyer likewise... the calculation is that these are worth this much in the market.
Another questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
Another questioner : If you allow me to say a word before that, the original ruling on loans was not known before, and its origin... is that people deviated from the Shari'ah contract in buying and selling, leasing and hiring, and the new reality in which people deviated from the Shari'ah contract is that they neglected the factor of time, so the contract has parties and... and time, so they made the...
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