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CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: TWELVE ayat. Carried before and now with named commentators: 2:255, the closing pair of Āyat al-Kursī, SHARED WITH NAMES 33, 38, 62 AND 63; 22:62, the first of the four places this Name stands with al-Kabīr, SHARED WITH NAME 37; 42:51, where height is put in terms of approach; 50:16, nearer than the jugular vein, SHARED WITH NAME 76; 2:186, where Allah answers in the first person, SHARED WITH NAMES 44 AND 98.
ADDED, AND THIS IS WHAT THE PASS CAME FOR: 42:4, 31:30, 34:23 and 40:12, THE FOUR DEFINITE OCCURRENCES OF THIS NAME THAT THE BOOK CARRIED AT OTHER NAMES AND NOT AT THIS ONE — 42:4 at Name 33 and the other three at Name 37, 40:12 at Name 66 as well — so that the page now carries ALL SIX definite occurrences and all eight of the occurrences said of Allah; 4:34, the second of the two without the article, SHARED WITH NAMES 37 AND 63; 87:1, the verse the prostration formula is taken from; and 79:24, WHERE THE ELATIVE OF THIS ROOT IS CLAIMED BY PHARAOH FOR HIMSELF. All seven are appended, the five existing sub-items keep their positions, and the distinct Qurʼan-page verse count in Notes on This Edition moves from 387 to 390.
NAMED HERE BUT NOT CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 9:40, carried at Name 22; 56:74, carried at Name 33; 13:9, carried at Name 37 and Name 78; 30:27, carried at Name 58 and Name 59; 17:43, carried at Name 78; 43:4, 19:50, 19:57, 92:20, 16:60, 37:8, 38:69, 53:7, 20:68, 28:4, 17:4, 27:14, 28:83 and 28:38, all carried at NO Name; 50:15, carried at Name 73.
CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE COUNTS: the root was counted by hand from the Tanzil text with strip. A widened pattern returns a very large field, because the particle ʻalā and its pronoun forms fall inside it, as do ʻ-l-m, f-ʻ-l, j-ʻ-l, ʻ-l-n, n-ʻ-l, b-ʻ-l and l-ʻ-l; every form was read and classified by hand, and the preposition was separated from the adjective by its vowelling. THE ADJECTIVE ʻALĪ STANDS ELEVEN TIMES. SIX ARE DEFINITE, AND UNLIKE AL-ḤALĪM AT NAME 32 AND ASH-SHAKŪR AT NAME 35, EVERY ONE OF THE SIX IS SAID OF ALLAH: 2:255, 22:62, 31:30, 34:23 and 42:4 in the nominative, and 40:12 in the genitive. Two more are said of Allah without the article, 42:51 and 4:34, so the word is said of Him eight times in all, and in every one of the eight it is followed by a second Name — it never once stands alone. Three are not of Allah (corrected in build 160): 43:4, where it is said of the Qurʼan; 19:50, of a tongue of truth; and 19:57, of the station Idrīs was raised to. THE ENTRY SAID THE PAIRING WITH AL-KABĪR WAS ONE STATEMENT MADE TWICE. IT IS MADE FOUR TIMES — 22:62, 31:30, 34:23 and 40:12 — and the claim that the tradition reads them as one statement made twice named no one and is removed rather than reattributed. THE BOOK CARRIED TWO OF THE SIX DEFINITE OCCURRENCES AT THIS NAME. The other four sat at Names 33 and 37, and both Guide entries described that as a division of the pairing by design, one verse at each of the twinned Names. The description rested on the miscount, and it is superseded here: the Name’s own page now carries every verse in which the Name stands. Name 33 keeps 42:4 and Name 37 keeps 31:30, 34:23 and 40:12, with reciprocal SHARED_LOCI links written at both ends.
CORRECTED, AND THIS IS THE OTHER HALF OF THE COUNT: the elative al-Aʻlā stands nine times and only four of them are of Allah — 87:1, 92:20, and al-mathal al-aʻlā at 16:60 and 30:27. Of the other five, two are of the highest assembly, one of the highest horizon, ONE IS SAID TO MŪSĀ at 20:68, AND ONE IS CLAIMED BY PHARAOH FOR HIMSELF at 79:24 — the same word, in the same definite elative form, that a Muslim says with his forehead on the ground. Both 87:1 and 79:24 are now carried, and 79:24 is the shape this book has learned to look for.
CORRECTED, THE ROOT: glossBasis was desc, senseNote was null, and rootRelation was shared-unmarked with relatedName null although Name 78, Al-Mutaʻālī, is the same root and its entry says so. It is now shared-explicit to al-mutaali; Name 78 now matches. IBN FĀRIS GIVES ONE ROOT AND SAYS THAT NOTHING DEPARTS FROM IT, which is the opposite of the judgement he passes on ḥ-l-m at Name 32 and on sh-k-r at Name 35, where he calls the roots divergent and far from analogy. Quoting al-Khalīl he then divides the sense: al-ʻalāʼ is rank, al-ʻuluww is greatness and tyranny — AND HIS EXAMPLE OF THE SECOND, AL-KHALĪL’S, IS PHARAOH, at 28:4 (corrected in build 160). Ar-Rāghib separates the two verbs, ʻalā said of the praiseworthy and the blameworthy alike and ʻaliya said only of the praiseworthy, and takes the Name from the second; on the Name he gives the line the desc now carries, that He is higher than the description of describers can encompass, or than the knowledge of those who know, and on 87:1, that al-aʻlā means higher than to be measured by anything or weighed against anything else. Ibn al-Athīr gives al-ʻAlī as the One above whom there is nothing in rank and in judgement, faʻīl in the sense of fāʻil, and gives al-Mutaʻāl in the same entry. READ, in one fetch of the Hawramani aggregator, which did surface for this root: Lisān al-ʻArab, ar-Rāghib’s Mufradāt, al-Jawharī’s Ṣiḥāḥ, Ibn al-Athīr’s Nihāyah, ar-Rāzī’s Mukhtār aṣ-Ṣiḥāḥ, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī and al-Fattinī, with al-Azharī quoted inside Lisān.
READ SEPARATELY: Ibn Fāris, as three independent transcriptions of the Maqāyīs entry, all in the same wording, one of them citing the printed pagination; NOT in a printed edition and NOT on the aggregator. NOT READ for this root: al-Fayyūmī, az-Zabīdī and al-Jurjānī, and nothing is claimed from them.
CORRECTED, THE DESC: it asserted that Al-ʻAlī is exalted in essence, in attributes and in dominion, and named nobody. The threefold division is as-Saʻdī’s on 2:255 and it is now attributed.
CORRECTED, THE REF: it carried three long citation forms that the house forms forbid — Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 772, Sunan Abī Dāwūd 869 and Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 482; it named no lexicon; it gave no count; it named 42:4 nowhere at all and 31:30 as a verse held at another Name; and it did not carry at-Tirmidhī 3507 with its grades. All are fixed.
CORRECTED, THE QURʼAN NOTES: none of the five carried a named commentator, and all five now do. ONE duʻāʼ BECOMES THREE. The first keeps its wording, its source and its grade, which are Name 78’s exactly and must stay so. ITS NOTE SPELLED ABŪ DĀWŪD 869 IN THE LONG FORM AND RECORDED ONE OF ITS THREE GRADES: the dataset adds Muḥammad Muḥyī ad-Dīn ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, also ḍaʻīf, and Darussalam, who calls the chain ṣaḥīḥ. THE NOTE ALSO CALLED ABŪ DĀWŪD 869 A PARALLEL OF THESE WORDS, WHICH IT IS NOT — as Name 33 found from the other side, that report does not contain the formula at all but is the instruction to put the verse into the prostration. The note is rewritten, and the two further routes to the wording, Abū Dāwūd 871 and at-Tirmidhī 262, are named. ADDED, TWO SUPPLICATIONS THAT NAME THIS NAME IN THE DEFINITE, which the book had at no Name: at-Tirmidhī 3435, the duʻāʼ of distress in the one recension reading al-ʻAlī al-Ḥalīm where al-Bukhārī 6345 and 6346 and Muslim 2730a read al-ʻAẓīm al-Ḥalīm; and Ibn Mājah 3878, where the night-waking dhikr closes on al-ʻAlī al-ʻAẓīm where al-Bukhārī 1154 closes at illā bi-llāh. BOTH RECENSION DIFFERENCES ARE STATED ON THE PAGE AND NEITHER IS SMOOTHED, and the wording Names 32 and 33 carry is not replaced. ONE ḥadīth BECOMES FOUR, all verified letter by letter against the dataset. Muslim 482 keeps its wording and grade and loses a note that opened by explaining the editor’s reason for placing it.
ADDED: al-Bukhārī 7481, THE ONE PLACE IN THE SIX BOOKS, THE LISTS OF NAMES ASIDE, WHERE THE DEFINITE NAME STANDS IN A REPORT OF THE PROPHET ﷺ, and it is the wording of 34:23 above; al-Bukhārī 2810 with Muslim 1904a, where Muslim reads aʻlā for al-Bukhārī’s hiya l-ʻulyā, so that one report carries both elatives; and Muslim 595a, the highest ranks asked after by the poor.
MEDS 36 CORRECTED IN THREE PLACES, ALL OF THEM QUOTATION DRIFT: it rendered 22:62 as the Most High, the Most Great where the page reads the Most High, the Great; it gave the prostration formula as Glory to my Lord where the Duʻāʼ page reads Glory be to my Lord; and it put Muslim 482 in words of its own while introducing them as what the Prophet ﷺ said. All three now match the book’s own translations, and 87:1, which the last paragraph quotes, is carried on the page so that the quotation can be checked against it. POEMS 36 and CH 36 read and unchanged; the death zone above eight thousand metres and the unmoved stars are both sound.
OPEN: pp. 114 to 116 of the Maqāyīs entry at this root are not yet read.
OPEN: the earlier Guide entry left 87:1 off the page deliberately and referred the question to the author, on the ground that al-Aʻlā is a cognate and not the counted Name. It is carried now because the book’s own settled practice at Names 30 to 35 is to carry cognate and creaturely occurrences with their status stated, and because 79:24 makes the elative a matter of fact about the Name rather than a matter of policy; the decision is reversible and is recorded here as a decision.
COHERENCE: Name 33 gains a reciprocal quran link at its 42:4 and one sentence of its own note is corrected, since it listed 87:1 among the verses carried at no Name and 87:1 is now carried here; its remark on this page was brought up to date in build 157. Name 37 gains three reciprocal links and no change of text, but its ref and its Guide entry repeat the same miscount of the pairing and the same by-design description, and both should be corrected when 37 comes up.
HYGIENE AFTER NAME 61: the Qurʼan note on 22:62 narrated the page’s own editing — the four places the Name stands with al-Kabīr, Name 37, and not of two, which is what the entry had counted — and the clause is removed with the fact it carried kept. AFTER THE READING OF IBN FĀRIS AT ʻ-L-W: the Maqāyīs entry for this root is now read in Ibn Fāris’s own text, Hārūn edition, vol. 4, pp. 112, 113 and 117 (Shamela 21710, pages 1653, 1654 and 1658). His own words at p. 112: the ʻayn, the lām and the weak letter, be it yāʼ or wāw or alif, are one root indicating loftiness and elevation, and nothing departs from it. The gloss this page carries is his, word for word, and stands unchanged; he states the root for all three weak letters, which is why the alif-final forms are counted with the rest.
NOT READ: pp. 114 to 116 of the same entry, and ar-Rāghib, Lisān al-ʻArab and al-Khalīl’s own Kitāb al-ʻAyn at this root.
CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE PAGE: found false and corrected — the senseNote gave the Pharaoh verse at 28:4 as Ibn Fāris’s own illustration, where at p. 113 it stands inside a quotation from al-Khalīl, who glosses ʻuluww there as greatness and tyrannizing and separates it from al-ʻalāʼ, which he reads as elevation; it is now given as al-Khalīl’s, as Ibn Fāris quotes him. Added and sourced: the two-verb division the note gave to ar-Rāghib alone stands earlier in the Maqāyīs, in al-Khalīl’s words there. The item asking for Ibn Fāris in a printed edition at this root is closed; the same item at Names 34 and 35 is not, and stands.
IN BUILD 160, FROM THE PHASE 2 READING: the ref and the record on the counts no longer count the Qurʼan among creatures; the three are not of Allah. The Pharaoh example at 28:4 is al-Khalīl’s, as Ibn Fāris quotes him, in the ref, the 79:24 note and the record, as the reading of his text found; the 79:24 note names 20:68 the other al-aʻlā said of a person. The ref names Ibn Mājah 3861’s list and pairs al-Bukhārī 2810 with Muslim 1904b, which carries hiya l-ʻulyā, as the source field now does; the desc names as-Saʻdī for the three heights. The 2:255 and 40:12 notes and the carried line name every share, Names 38 and 66 among them; the 42:4 and 31:30 notes no longer narrate the page’s editing; the 2:186 note gives the chains Ibn Kathīr gives and grades neither; the 34:23 note adds Abū ʻAbd ar-Raḥmān as-Sulamī to Ibn Kathīr’s list. The ḥadīth note places al-Bukhārī 4701 in the commentary on al-Ḥijr and sets the lists of Names aside; the duʻāʼ note gives the third clause to the records that carry it. The remarks on Names 33 and 78 and the OPEN item on Ibn Fāris are brought up to date. 2:186’s English and the elative’s carriage wait on the author (A48).
BY THE AUTHOR’S DECISIONS OF 2026-09-25, IN BUILD 182: 2:255’s their keeping becomes their preservation, the noun Name 38 sets (A23); 87:1 and 79:24 are kept on the page (A48).
IN BUILD 207, FROM THE READING OF THE GRADES: Muḥammad Fuʼād ʻAbd al-Bāqī is no longer named as a grader on this page: the row the ḥadīth dataset gives in his name is al-Albānī’s ruling as it is printed with ʻAbd al-Bāqī’s edition of Ibn Mājah, read at Shamela through its page reader, not in print, and the edition gives no verdict of its own beyond quoting az-Zawāʼid; al-Albānī’s grade stands where it stood, and earlier records keep their words.