Chapter: Indeed, Allah has a hundred names, except for one. Ibn 'Abbas said: "Dhu al-Jalal" means greatness. "Al-Barr" means the Subtle One.

The Reciter: Chapter: Indeed, Allah has a hundred names, except for one. Ibn 'Abbas said: .

The Shaykh : His statement, may Allah have mercy on him: "Indeed, Allah has a hundred names, except for one". The apparent meaning of his words is that he restricted the names of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to these ninety-nine. This is one of the two positions in this great issue: that the names of Allah are limited to ninety-nine. However, we have previously established that the stronger position is that they are not limited, and we provided evidence for this from the hadith of 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud regarding the supplication for distress and sadness, which includes: . This indicates that Allah has not revealed all of His names to us, and what Allah has not revealed cannot be fully encompassed. This is the correct view. Therefore, if you examine the names of Allah in the Book and the Sunnah, you will find that they exceed ninety-nine. Consequently, what is implied by the apparent wording of al-Bukhari, may Allah have mercy on him, is the weaker position. And Ibn 'Abbas said: . This is correct. Al-Jalal is the perfection of greatness, pointing to the statement of Allah, the Exalted: . But how do we reconcile the statement of Allah, the Exalted: with His statement: ? Because His statement: is an attribute of the Face, whereas is an attribute of the Lord, not an attribute of a name. Thus, in the first verse, it is an attribute of the thing to which the name is added, and in the second verse, it is an attribute of the thing to which the name is added. And regarding his statement: , the correct view is that al-Barr means the vastness of good and the abundance of giving, because it agrees in derivation with al-barr, which is the opposite of the sea. Al-barr, which is the opposite of the sea, is vast. From this comes birr al-walidayn (dutifulness to parents), meaning the abundance of their giving and their benefit, and the like. It appears that the interpretation of al-Barr as "the Subtle One" is not from the interpretation of Ibn 'Abbas in your copy.
The Reciter: And this is also the interpretation of Ibn 'Abbas, and the discussion of it and the explanation of its chain of narration from him has already been mentioned in the tafsir of Surat al-Tur.

The Shaykh : Refer to the tafsir; we will bring it tomorrow, if Allah wills.