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CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: SEVEN ayat. Carried before and now with named commentators: 39:53, jamīʻan, with aṭ-Ṭabarī and Ibn Kathīr; 15:49, the command to announce the Name; 85:14, SHARED WITH NAME 47, al-Ghafūr al-Wadūd; 25:70, the exchange of evil deeds for good ones.
ADDED: 18:58, WHERE AṬ-ṬABARĪ GLOSSES THE NAME WITH THE ROOT’S OWN SENSE, as-sātir — the One who covers the sins of His servants — and where the covering is given as the reason the punishment is not hastened; 34:2, THE ONLY PLACE THE ORDER OF THE COMMONEST PAIRING IS REVERSED, ar-Raḥīm al-Ghafūr rather than al-Ghafūr ar-Raḥīm; and 67:2, SHARED WITH NAME 61, THE ONLY PLACE THE NAME STANDS BESIDE AL-ʻAZĪZ IN THE DEFINITE. All three are appended, the four existing sub-items keep their positions, and the distinct Qurʼan-page verse count in Notes on This Edition moves from 381 to 384.
NAMED HERE BUT NOT CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 2:37, carried at Name 2 and Name 80; 66:3, carried at Name 31; 35:45, carried at Name 32 and Name 72; 24:22, carried at Name 82; 42:37, 42:43, 45:14, 64:14, 12:98, 28:16, 42:5, 46:8, 4:48, 15:50, 35:28, 7:23, 17:25 and 34:15, all carried at NO Name; 10:107, carried at Name 91.
CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE COUNTS: computed from the Tanzil text with strip, gh-f-r gives TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR words in TWO HUNDRED AND TWO verses. A WIDENED PATTERN RETURNS NOTHING FURTHER AT ALL, so this root has no look-alikes whatever, as Names 29 and 31 record of theirs (corrected in build 158). THE ADJECTIVE GHAFŪR STANDS NINETY-ONE TIMES: ghafūr fifty-two, ghafūran twenty, al-Ghafūr eleven, la-ghafūr eight. ALL NINETY-ONE ARE OF ALLAH, and only one of them, at 34:15, a forgiving Lord, stands with neither a partner Name nor a named object (corrected in build 158). Seventy-two take raḥīm, seventy-one after the Name and one, 34:2, before it; six take ḥalīm, which agrees exactly with the ḥ-l-m count taken independently at Name 32; four take ʻafuww, at 4:43, 4:99, 22:60 and 58:2; three take shakūr; two take ʻazīz, at 35:28 and 67:2; and one takes wadūd, at 85:14; at 17:25 it takes the ones it forgives, lil-awwābīn, and at 18:58 dhū r-raḥmah. THE ELEVEN DEFINITE OCCURRENCES ARE 10:107, 12:98, 15:49, 18:58, 28:16, 34:2, 39:53, 42:5, 46:8, 67:2 AND 85:14, and eight of those take ar-Raḥīm — SEVEN WITH THE NAME FIRST AND ONE, 34:2, WITH IT SECOND. The verb is a different matter and is worth stating beside the adjective: it IS said of servants, at 42:37, 42:43, 45:14 and 64:14, where they are praised for forgiving or told to forgive, and not at 24:22, where the verb is Allah’s (corrected in build 158); the adjective never is.
CORRECTED, THE ROOT: glossBasis was desc, AND THE senseNote WAS NOT CONTENT AT ALL BUT A PRODUCTION REMARK — it read, in substance, that the sense distinction was preserved by way of senseNote rather than by forcing a single contrast label, which is a note about how the file was built and not about the word. It is replaced. IBN FĀRIS GIVES COVERING AS THE SENSE OF MOST OF THE CHAPTER (corrected in build 158, on his text), ghafara meaning ghaṭṭā, and derives al-mighfar from it, the mail hood worn on the head because it covers it — WHICH MEANS THE desc’S CLAIM ABOUT THE HELMET IS RIGHT, unlike the bone at Name 33, and it now has the lexicon behind it instead of standing as a flourish.
READ: Ibn Fāris as two independent transcriptions quote the Maqāyīs entry, and NOT in a printed edition and NOT on the aggregator page, which did not surface; that is weaker ground than Names 32 and 33 had and is recorded as such. NOT READ for this root: Lisān al-ʻArab, ar-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī, al-Jawharī, al-Fayyūmī and Ibn al-Athīr, and nothing is claimed from them.
SEEN AND NOT USED: an unattributed aggregator entry distinguishing ʻafw from maghfirah and quoting al-Ghazālī on the two; it names no edition and is not relied on here. The al-Ghazālī reading that IS used, that the faʻʻāl pattern of Name 14 is read for frequency and the faʻūl here for completeness, is the one Name 14 already carries, and it too reaches the book only as quoted.
CORRECTED, THE DESC: it carried the mighfar claim without a lexicon, gave no count, and closed on a Lord more pleased at the return than the returner is relieved — a true thing said in the reports but said at no page of this Name, so the sentence made a claim the book could not check. It is replaced by what the count shows.
CORRECTED, THE REF: IT CARRIED THE LONG CITATION FORM Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2749, which the house forms forbid; it named no lexicon and no commentator; it gave no count; and it did not carry at-Tirmidhī 3507 with its grades. All are fixed.
CORRECTED, THE QURʼAN NOTES: none of the four carried a named commentator. ONE duʻāʼ, 7:23, the first supplication for forgiveness a human being ever made; its note now names aṭ-Ṭabarī and states what the two clauses do, and it correctly carries no grade, being Qurʼānic. TWO aḥādīth, both verified against the dataset. Muslim 2749 CONTAINS THE PRINTED WORDING EXACTLY and is from Abū Hurayrah through Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm, whom the note did not name and now does. al-Bukhārī 6070 CORRECTED: ITS SOURCE FIELD HELD AN ESSAY of some fifty words comparing two recensions, sitting where a citation belongs, AND ITS GRADE STRING CARRIED THE SAME APPARATUS IN PARENTHESES. The source now reads al-Bukhārī 6070; Muslim 2768 and the grade a plain ṣaḥīḥ (muttafaq ʻalayh), with the comparison moved into the note and nothing of it lost.
EVERY CLAIM IN THAT ESSAY WAS CHECKED AND ALL OF THEM HOLD: Muslim 2768 does read yudnā l-muʼminu in the third person where al-Bukhārī reads yadnū aḥadukum, and does close satartuhā with the pronoun where al-Bukhārī 6070 closes satartu without it; both run through Ṣafwān ibn Muḥriz from Ibn ʻUmar. al-Bukhārī 2441 was read too and carries the report again with satartuhā, which is why Name 40, which prints 2441, prints a different string from this page. MEDS 34, POEMS 34 and CH 34 read and unchanged.
OPEN: Ibn Fāris is read in his own text on the islamweb transcription, at Name 14’s pass and at this one’s, and not yet in print; no other lexicon is read at this root in its own text.
OPEN: the al-Ghazālī distinction between the two intensive patterns, which both this page and Name 14 rest a sentence on, reaches the book only as quoted and has never been read in his own text.
COHERENCE: Name 47 carries 85:14 and is already keyed reciprocally to this page; its text is untouched. Name 40 carries this same najwā report from al-Bukhārī 2441, its source a citation since its own correction. Name 14, which shares this root, already carries glossBasis ref and a written senseNote naming this Name, so the cross-reference is reciprocal in substance as well as in the field.
AFTER NAME 91: 10:107 is now carried at Name 91, and the NAMED line says so. AFTER THE CHAT-END AUDIT OF 1–99: the link to Name 40 was read on both pages and stands: two recensions of the one report of Ibn ʻUmar, different numbers and different openings.
IN BUILD 158, FROM THE PHASE 2 READING: the desc, the ref and the record on the counts give raḥīm seventy-two, seventy-one after the Name and 34:2 before it, and account for the three with no partner Name, 17:25, 18:58 and 34:15, where the Name stands alone; the verb of servants is given at 42:37, 42:43, 45:14 and 64:14, and the named line names 17:25, 34:15 and 42:43. The ḥadīth note on the najwā says who was asked, a man asking Ibn ʻUmar, and names al-Bukhārī 2441 plainly; the source cites al-Bukhārī 6070, the record that carries the printed wording, with Muslim 2768 in the note. The 25:70 note gives aṭ-Ṭabarī’s two readings and his preference, and the account of the man who had done every sin as Ibn Kathīr gives it from aṭ-Ṭabarānī; the duʻāʼ note gives Ibn Kathīr’s list at 2:37 and aṭ-Ṭabarī’s close at 7:23. The ref names Ibn Mājah 3861’s list, gives al-Ghazālī as quoted, and gives aṭ-Ṭabarī’s as-sātir as the root’s sense, as the 18:58 note and the added line now do. Ibn Fāris, read in his own text on islamweb’s and Shāmilah’s transcriptions of al-Maqāyīs, gives covering as most of the chapter, some of it departing, and the ghifārah as a rag worn on the crown of the head; the desc, the gloss, the senseNote and the record say so. The CARRIED line names Name 61 for 67:2, the COHERENCE remark on Name 40 is brought up to date, and the OPEN item on Ibn Fāris says where he was read. The reflection’s 39:53 and the poem’s chrysalis wait on the author (A45, A46).
BY THE AUTHOR’S DECISIONS OF 2026-09-25, IN BUILD 182: 39:53 reads Truly Allah forgives sins, all of them, here and in MEDS 34, one English for the verse (A45); POEMS 34 reads dissolved almost past the point, and little of its structure (A46).
IN BUILD 195, FROM THE BACKLOG READING OF THE LEXICA: Ibn Fāris at gh-f-r is read at Shamela through its page reader, not in print, vol. 4, p. 385: al-ghafr is as-satr and wa-l-mighfar maʻrūf; ghaṭṭā stands there only of the nap that covers the face of a cloth, and he gives no reason for the mighfar’s name; the ref no longer gives him ghafara meaning ghaṭṭā or a derivation of the mighfar, and the senseNote files the mighfar under the chapter as a thing known; the desc’s account of the mighfar names no lexicon and stands.