Editing Names of God in Islam (section)

== Attributes ==
Islamic tenets has detailed descriptions about to differentiate names with attributes ({{langx|ar|صِفَة|ṣifāh}} plural of [[:wikt:صفات#Noun|sˤi.faːt]]), which has literal abilities of their owns. Examples of the attributes are the name of "ar-Rahman" contains the attributes "mercifulness in general",<ref name="names and attributes difference; Risala" /> or "fundamental mercy".<ref>{{cite book |author1=John Andrew Morrow |title=Islamic Images and Ideas: Essays on Sacred Symbolism |date=2013 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0786458486 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ufLaAQAAQBAJ |access-date=20 August 2024 |language=En}}</ref> According to Sahih Bukhari and Muslim, God has 100 kinds of ''rahmah'' (grace/godsend), whereas only one of them already revealed to this world, while the other 99 still withheld for the afterlife. One of the ''rahmah'' which was sent to the world are sufficient to fulfil the needs of all creatures until the [[Judgement Day in Islam|Judgement Day]]; including humans, [[Jinn]]s, and even non-sentients such as animals, so the parents of animals would not trample their babies under their foots or wasting.<ref>{{cite web |title=Surat Al-Fatihah Ayat 3 |publisher=[[Islamic University of Madinah]]|language=id,ar |url=https://tafsirweb.com/51-surat-al-fatihah-ayat-3.html}} excerpt from {{cite book |author1=Imad Zuhair Hafidh |title=تفسيرُ المدينةِ المُنوَّرة |trans-title=Exegesis Madinah al-Munawwara |date=2015 |publisher=مركز تعظيم القرآن الكريم بالمدينة المنورة |url=https://www.spa.gov.sa/1393392 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=Ar}} Reference Hadiths:
*[https://dorar.net/hadith/sharh/25558 Narrated by: Abu Hurairah / Author: Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj/ Source: Sahih Muslim / Page or number: 2752 / Summary of the narrator’s ruling: Sahih]
*[https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:420 Narrated by: Abu Hurairah / Author: Bukhari and Muslim / Source: Riyad as-Salihin 420 / Page or number: 420 ]</ref> Another example is name of al-ʿAliyy contains several attributes, such as "heightness" and "above all".<ref name="names and attributes difference; Risala" />

This ruling is because the naming of God are limited by the evidences from Qur'an and Hadith in Sunni Islam.<ref name="names and attributes difference; al-Hanan" /> Thus, postulating the tenet in Islam's creed that essentially, the name-bearing of God are different from attributes of God.<ref name="Onomastics between Sacred and Profane">{{cite book |author1=Oliviu Felecan |title=Onomastics between Sacred and Profane |date=2019 |publisher=Vernon Press |isbn=978-1622734016 |page=6 |access-date=20 August 2024 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uDpvDwAAQBAJ |language=En |quote=... attributes, postulating that a name is different from naming}}</ref> Nevertheless, [[Salafi]] scholar [[al-Uthaymin]] stated the principal ruling of giving attributes to God is similar with the verdict about giving name to God; that is forbidden to gave attributes without evidence from Qur'an and Sunnah.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Muhammad Abduh Tuasikal |title=Syarhus Sunnah: Kaidah Nama dan Sifat Allah #02  |trans-title=Explanation of Sunnah: principles of the Name and Attributes of Allah #02 |url=https://rumaysho.com/18512-syarhus-sunnah-kaidah-nama-dan-sifat-allah-02.html |website=Rumaysho |year=2018 |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=Id}} References from: 
* Al-Minhaj Syarh Sahih Muslim. First printing, 1433 H. Yahya bin Syarf An-Nawawi. Publisher Dar Ibn Hazm.
* Syarh Asma' Allah Al-Husna fi Dhaui Al-Kitab wa As-Sunnah. 12th printing, 1431 H. Syaikh Sa'id bin Wahf Al-Qahthani.
* Syarh As-Sunnah. Second printing, 1432 H. Imam Al-Muzani. Ta'liq: Dr. Jamal 'Azzun. Maktabah Dar Al-Minhaj Publishers.
* Syarh Al-Qawa'id Al-Mutsla. Syaikh Muhammad bin Shalih Al-'Utsaimin. Ta'liq: Abu Ya'qub Nasy-at bin Kamal Al-Mashri. Maktabah Al-Muslim Publishers.</ref> One of the disputed name of God among the Islamic academic is "al-Hannan",<ref name="names and attributes difference; al-Hanan" /> Since it is considered as one of the attribute of "ar-Rahman" name in [[Maryam (surah)|Maryam]] {{qref|19|13}}, not because al-Hannan is a name itself.<ref>{{cite web |title=Berdoa Kepada Allah Dengan Nama "Al-Hannan" Dan "Al-Mannan" |trans-title=praying to God with the names of "O Hannan" and "O Mannan" |url=https://fatwaulama.com/fiqih/berdoa-kepada-allah-dengan-nama-al-hannan-dan-al-mannan-10929/ |website=fatwaulama.com |date=7 February 2023 |publisher=lajnah |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=Id}}</ref>

Both [[Ibn Taymiyya]] in his work, ''The Treaty of Tadmur'', and [[Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya|Ibn al-Qayyim]] have published their statements claiming to be refuting [[Jahmiyya]],<ref name="names and attributes difference; al-Hanan" /> and [[al-Juwayni]] respectively; as Jahmiyya scholars and al-Juwayni rejected the existence of the attributes of God and consider that the names of God are just semantics without any substances in them.<ref name="names and attributes difference; Risala">{{cite web |author1=M. Saifudin Hakim |title=Sifat Allah: Apakah Hanya Tujuh atau Dua Puluh? (Bag. 3)  |trans-title=The Attributes of God: Only Seven or Twenty? (Part 3) |url=https://muslim.or.id/38229-sifat-allah-apakah-hanya-tujuh-atau-dua-puluh-03-2.html |website=muslim.or.id |date=9 April 2018 |publisher=Yayasan Pendidikan Islam Al-Atsari (YPIA) Al-Atsari Islamic Education Foundation |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=Id}} References from:
* [[Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal]] no. 3712. graded authentic by Shaikh Albani in ''Silsilah Ash-Sahihah'' no. 3528 
* [https://dorar.net/hadith/sharh/1879 Sahih Bukhari. Bukhari no. 4712.] 
* [https://hadeethenc.com/ar/browse/hadith/3566 Sahih Muslim no. 1118]
* Sharh al-Qawa' Ied al-Muthla p. 134-135, by Muhammad ibn Salih Al-Uthaymin, first print, published by Dar al-Athar in 2001. 
* [http://audio.islamweb.net/audio/index.php?page=lecview&sid=1119&read=1&lg=656 Sharh ar-Risala att-Tadmuriyyah li Shaykh al-Islaam Ibn Taimiyyah, by Shaikh Dr. Yusuf Al-Ghafish]
* Sharh Al-'Aqida As-Safariyaniyya, by Muhammad ibn Salih Al-Uthaymin, published by Madar ul-Watan KSA, second printing in 2010, pp. 202-203.
* Dar'u Ta'arudhi Al-'Aqli wan Naqli, 5/ 248 (Maktabah Shamila).
* Asas at-Taqdiis, pp. 147-148.
* Al-Ibana ‘an Usl ad-Diyanah, page. 443.
</ref> The statements of both Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Qayyim became the ruling which was established by [[Council of Senior Scholars (Saudi Arabia)|Saudi Council of Senior Scholars]], as they stated that each of God's name contains multiple attributes.<ref name="names and attributes difference; Risala" /> Salafi scholars such as [[Ibn Baz]] did not consent to the interpretation of the attributes of God.<ref>{{harvtxt|Namira Nahouza |2009 |p=193}}</ref> Moreover, Walid Muhammad Abdullah Muhammad al-'Ali, an exegesis professor of [[Islamic University of Madinah]], has quoted Ibn al-Qayyim's concern regarding the importance of names and attributes of God as part of the [[Tawhid]] (oneness of God) which is the first article of the [[Iman (Islam)#The Six Articles of Faith|The Six Articles of Faith]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Walīd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAlī |title=جهود الإمام ابن قيم الجوزية في تقرير توحيد الأسماء والصفات, Volume 3 |trans-title=The efforts of Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya in establishing the oneness of names and attributes, Volume 3 |year=2004 |publisher=المبرة الخيرية لعلوم القرآن والسنة |pages=1390, 1412, 2041 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8M4kAQAAIAAJ |access-date=19 August 2024 |language=Ar}}</ref>