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CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: NINE āyāt, seven before and two appended; ONE duʻāʼ, unchanged; TWO reports, unchanged. APPENDED, BOTH EXACT SHARES WITH NAME 96 and both now linked reciprocally: 55:26–27 and 28:88. THIS REF HAS NAMED BOTH FOR AS LONG AS IT HAS EXISTED WITHOUT THE PAGE EVER PRINTING THEM. They are carried on the strength of the COMMENTARY, not the wording — no word of this root stands in either — and they are THE GROUND OF THIS NAME’S OWN GLOSS: aṭ-Ṭabarī explains al-Ākhir at 57:3 as after everything without end, BECAUSE HE IS AFTER ALL THINGS PERISH, and 55:26 is the āyah that says they perish. Ibn Kathīr reads fānin of what is coming, all of them will go and die, and gives ash-Shaʻbī: when you recite the first verse, do not stop until you recite the second. At 28:88 Ibn Kathīr reaches for THIS NAME AND NAME 73 in so many words — every deed is void except what was meant for Allah, and every self passes away except His, FOR HE IS THE FIRST AND THE LAST. What the Name says of Allah, these two āyāt say of everything else. NOTHING ELSE WAS ADDED, AND THE REASONS ARE ON THE RECORD. The duʻāʼ stands at ONE because it is Muslim 2713a — anta l-ākhiru fa-laysa baʻdaka shayʼ, the Prophet’s ﷺ own definition of this Name — and there is no second. In the six editions al-ākhir is said of Allah ONLY in the ten records listed at Name 73, with al-awwal before it in every one; both reports carried here are from that set and both are ṣaḥīḥ. Texts taken from the entries at Name 96, already verified in this book; checked 18 September 2026. Both additions are appends, so no existing sub-item index moved. THE FIRST PASS RECORD FOLLOWS.
CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: seven āyāt, two before and five appended. 57:3 is shared with Names 73, 75 and 76, and 53:42 is carried here only, both unchanged in text. Appended and new to the book: 10:10, 26:84, 37:108 and 33:21. Appended and shared exactly with Name 73: 56:49. With them the page carries the one place ākhir is said of Allah, the Last Day beside hope in Allah (33:21), the later peoples in Ibrāhīm’s supplication and its answer (26:84, 37:108), the plural pair of Names 73 and 74 (56:49), and the last of the call of the people of Paradise (10:10). The distinct verse count moves from 602 to 606.
NAMED HERE BUT NOT CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 5:114, carried at Name 73; 56:50, carried at Name 87; 37:78, 37:119, 37:129, 56:14, 56:40, 43:56, 77:17, 3:72 and 37:109, all carried at NO Name.
CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE COUNT: ʼ-kh-r was counted at Name 72 with the hamzah kept (250 words, look-alikes named there), and build_N74.py re-asserts this Name’s part on the pointed text. ĀKHIR STANDS 40 TIMES. SAID OF ALLAH ONCE, AT 57:3, AFTER AL-AWWAL. AL-YAWM AL-ĀKHIR, THE LAST DAY, 26 (2:8, 2:62, 2:126, 2:177, 2:228, 2:232, 2:264, 3:114, 4:38, 4:39, 4:59, 4:136, 4:162, 5:69, 9:18, 9:19, 9:29, 9:44, 9:45, 9:99, 24:2, 29:36, 33:21, 58:22, 60:6, 65:2). AL-ĀKHIRĪN, THE LATER PEOPLES, 10: Ibrāhīm’s tongue of truth among them (26:84); we left upon him among the later ones, four times, of Nūḥ (37:78), Ibrāhīm (37:108), Mūsā and Hārūn (37:119) and Ilyās (37:129); the later ones among the foremost and among the companions of the right (56:14, 56:40); the first and the last gathered (56:49); a precedent for the later ones (43:56); the later ones made to follow (77:17). THE LAST OF THEIR CALL (10:10), THE END OF THE DAY (3:72), THE LAST OF US (5:114). So the Name is said of Allah once in the Qurʼan, and the word is most often the Day. THE SIX ḤADĪTH EDITIONS: al-ākhir is said of Allah in the ten records Name 73 lists, and al-awwal stands before it in every one; swept again for anta l-ākhir and huwa l-ākhir, the only other hits are kānat al-ākhiratu (at-Tirmidhī 2465, Ibn Mājah 4105), the Hereafter. So in the six editions neither Name is said of Allah without the other. FOUND / CORRECTED / REMOVED, AS UNVERIFIED: THE ROOT FIELD WAS EMPTY in every part; now Ibn Fāris in his own text. IBN FĀRIS FOR ʼ-KH-R, OWED SINCE NAME 72, IS REACHED: Shamela, the Hārūn edition, vol. 1 p. 70, opened from a link inside another fetched Shamela page. Name 72’s ref and senseNote, which said he was not reached, now give his origin, and its Study Note records it. THE DESC said He is Last now as He is First now, that the two Names are one statement about a Being whom time does not contain, that nothing that ends takes Him with it and no promise of His expires with the world, none of it from a source read; struck; and it quoted 55:26–27 in words that are not the book’s English. The desc now rests on Ibn Fāris, the count, the Prophet’s ﷺ own definition in Muslim 2713a, and aṭ-Ṭabarī at 57:3. THE REF quoted 57:3 as and He is, of all things, Knowing, 55:26–27 and 28:88 in words not the book’s English, and carried Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2713a against house form; rebuilt. THE 57:3 NOTE rested on the story’s buried king; rewritten from aṭ-Ṭabarī. THE 53:42 NOTE glossed al-muntahā from no source, said this Name is the one the wa-anna clauses arrive at, and did not say al-muntahā is n-h-y, another root; rewritten from aṭ-Ṭabarī, with the root disclosed. THE AL-BUKHĀRĪ 3191 NOTE said ghayrahu establishes that nothing outside Him can fail Him at the far end, an inference from no source, and gave Ibn Taymiyyah, with al-Ḥākim concurring, a preference for qablahu; neither was read; struck as unchecked, as at Name 73. THE DUʻĀʼ NOTE only pointed to Name 73; rewritten.
ADDED: al-Bukhārī 6921 with Muslim 120b, shared exactly with Name 73, where al-awwal and al-ākhir are said of a man’s deeds. MEDS 74 quoted 55:26–27 in words that are not the book’s English; now Name 96’s English. POEMS 74 read and not changed: the far-future universe of evaporated black holes is a real cosmological picture, and its lines that nothing moves and not even light remains are figure for that state, recorded and left. CH 74 read and not changed; the meditation’s retelling agrees with it (twelve meters, three millennia, six seasons, about four hours).
READ: the Tanzil text, every ākhir in its verse. Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, ʼ-kh-r, in his own text (Shamela, the Hārūn edition, vol. 1 p. 70): one origin to which its branches return, the opposite of going forward, an analogy taken from al-Khalīl, who said al-ākhir is the opposite of the one who goes before; ākhirat ar-raḥl against its front; a sale bi-akhiratin, on deferred payment; ukhar the plural of ukhrā; and Ibn Durayd’s al-ākhir follows the first, which he says fits the phrases the last of the two men and the other better. Aṭ-Ṭabarī at 10:10, 26:84, 33:21, 37:108, 53:42 and 57:3, and at 56:49 as read at Name 73; through the tafsir dataset. Letter by letter with their grade rows: Muslim 2713a; al-Bukhārī 3191 and 6921; Muslim 120b; at-Tirmidhī 2465; Ibn Mājah 4105; the ten records of Name 73; the six editions swept for al-ākhir.
NOT READ: al-Ghazālī’s al-Maqṣad al-Asnā.
OPEN: MEDS 74 says He is not the last one standing at the end of a contest and that what lies past the end is a Day and a meeting, and POEMS 74 closes the same way; these are reflections the author wrote on the Qurʼan’s promise and are left. The Duʻāʼ and 3191 links among Names 73 to 76 are p with identical Arabic, the paired-Names convention; left.
COHERENCE: 57:3 unchanged and shared with Names 73, 75 and 76. 56:49 and al-Bukhārī 6921 with Muslim 120b shared exactly with Name 73, linked both ways. Name 72’s ref and senseNote now cite Ibn Fāris as read here.
AFTER NAME 89: Name 89 carries the close of Muslim 2713a, iqḍi ʻannā d-dayna wa-aghninā mina l-faqr, linked as another portion.
AFTER NAME 96: Name 96 carries the clause anta l-ākhiru fa-laysa baʻdaka shayʼ of Muslim 2713a, linked as another portion; and Name 96 now prints 55:26–27 in Name 85’s English, Everyone upon it is perishing, which the meditation here now quotes.
ON THE AUTHOR’S LIST, THE TITLE AND THE RENDERINGS: Name 85 now reads The Lord of Majesty and Honour while the āyāt, the supplications and the reports still read Possessor of Majesty and Generosity. All twenty places were found and weighed one at a time, and every one of them is the book’s own rendering of a verse or of a report and not the book’s own prose; so none of them follows the title, nothing was changed, and whether that English should follow the title stays with the author. At this Name there are two, 55:26–27 on the Qurʼan page and the meditation’s quotation of the same two āyāt with their number, both in the English Names 41, 85 and 96 print.
IN BUILD 187, FROM THE PHASE 2 READING: the desc counts the Last Day 22 times straight after Allah, 2:8 with the preposition repeated among them, where it gave 21 in the words Allah and the Last Day, the exact collocation alone; the ref’s stale sentence on 55:26–27 and 28:88 is struck and the other no longer narrates the page; the 55:26–27 note no longer narrates the page; BY THE AUTHOR’S DEFAULT (A73): the meditation gives Muslim 2713a in the book’s English.