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CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: TWO ayat, 55:27 and 55:78, both kept, both verifying EXACT against the Tanzil text, and NOTHING WAS APPENDED. That is the finding rather than an omission: the root occurs exactly twice in the Book and this page already held both of them, which is the first time in this stretch that a Name page was complete on its own root. Adding non-root verses would have blurred the derived status the entry exists to be honest about, and the distinct verse count stays at four hundred and five.
NAMED HERE BUT NOT CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 7:143, carried at Name 85; 92:2, 91:3, 59:3 and 7:187, all carried at NO Name.
CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE COUNT, AND THE METHOD HAD A TRAP IN IT: counted by hand from the Tanzil text with strip, j-l-l gives EXACTLY TWO words, 55:27 and 55:78, both al-jalāl and both inside dhū or dhī al-jalāli wa-l-ikrām.
THE TRAP: j-l-l is a geminate root, and strip removes the shadda, so jalla would collapse to two letters and a regex written j then l then l would miss it entirely. The count was therefore rerun twice more — once as j followed by l with any two characters between, which returns 675 words in 221 forms and was read by hand, and once on the POINTED text for a lām carrying a shadda after a jīm, which returns five words, the doubled lām of j-l-w in four and of as-sijill in the fifth, and none of this root (corrected in build 165). So there is no jalla, no ajall and no verb of this root anywhere in the Qurʼan. The look-alikes read out and set aside were j-ʻ-l, j-b-l, r-j-l, ʻ-j-l, j-h-l, j-d-l, j-m-l, j-l-d, j-l-b, ʼ-j-l and, closest of all, j-l-w — tajallā at 7:143 and 92:2, yujallīhā at 7:187, jallāhā at 91:3, al-jalāʼ at 59:3 — which look like this root in unpointed text and are not it; so do wajila of w-j-l, al-Injīl, sijjīl and as-sijill of s-j-l, Jālūt, al-majālis of j-l-s and zanjabīl, twenty-six words in thirteen forms the list had left out (completed in build 165).
FOUND, AND IT IS THE PRINCIPAL THING: THE DESC ATTRIBUTED TO AL-GHAZĀLĪ A FORMULA THAT IS IBN AL-ATHĪR’S. The threefold line between al-Kabīr, al-Jalīl and al-ʻAẓīm stands verbatim in an-Nihāya fī Gharīb al-Ḥadīth wa-l-Athar and is quoted word for word in Lisān al-ʻArab and in al-Fattinī’s Majmaʻ Biḥār al-Anwār; al-Maqṣad al-Asnā has still never been read in al-Ghazālī’s own text, here or at Names 38 and 39. The substance was right and the attribution was not, so the attribution is now the one that was actually read, and the entry no longer has to hedge it as what may be said rather than settled doctrine (qualified in build 165: Ibn Imām al-Kāmiliyyah, read on the web, quotes the line as al-Ghazālī’s, so it stands in al-Ghazālī before Ibn al-Athīr, and the senseNote says so as quoted).
FOUND, THE INVERSION THE ENTRY HAD BACKWARDS BY IMPLICATION: ar-Rāghib, quoted by az-Zabīdī in Tāj al-ʻArūs, reserves the NOUN jalāl to Allah and says it is used of nothing else, and Lisān says the same in four words; but the ADJECTIVE jalīl, which is the form the Name itself takes, he says explicitly is NOT reserved to Him — the reports use it of an aged man and Bilāl uses it of a thin desert grass. The Name is built on the shared form, from the unshared noun.
FOUND ALSO: jalal is one of the aḍdād, the mighty thing and the trifling thing at once, while Lisān rules that al-jalīl is only ever for the great; and jallala, the covering sense, is the same root, which is the lexical ground the meditation had been asserting without.
CORRECTED, THE ROOT FIELDS: glossBasis was desc and the gloss read majesty and exaltedness — exaltedness is ʻ-l-w, which is Names 36 and 78, not this root. The gloss now reads greatness of worth and covering a thing entirely, both attested, and glossBasis is ref. rootRelation is unchanged. FOUND IN TAFSĪR, AND NEITHER NAME HAD IT: each of the two verses has a recorded variant that turns it into the other. Aṭ-Ṭabarī reports Ibn Masʻūd reading dhī at 55:27, of the Lord instead of the Face; al-Qurṭubī and al-Baghawī report Ibn ʻĀmir and the maṣāḥif of Shām reading dhū at 55:78, of the Name instead of the Lord. Al-Qurṭubī also says, at 55:78, that the readers did not differ at 55:27, and Ibn ʻĀshūr calls it their consensus, which a reading reported of Ibn Masʻūd does not contradict (corrected in build 165); both are given as read. CORRECTED, THE ḤADĪTH, AND THIS WAS THE WORST FIELD ON THE PAGE: the grade at at-Tirmidhī 3525 claimed al-Albānī’s ṣaḥīḥ rested on the corroborating narration of Rabīʻah ibn ʻĀmir carried by an-Nasāʼī, Aḥmad and al-Ḥākim, with Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʻ 1250 and as-Silsilah aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah 1536. NONE OF THAT COULD BE CHECKED and the parts that could be are wrong as stated. Searched letter by letter, aliẓẓū occurs in ONE of the six editions, at-Tirmidhī, at 3524 and 3525 only, and Rabīʻah ibn ʻĀmir occurs in none of the six at all. Ibn Kathīr on 55:78 supplies what the claim was reaching for and corrects it: the Rabīʻah chain is in Aḥmad and in an-Nasāʼī’s AS-SUNAN AL-KUBRĀ, not the Sunan this book cites (the Kubrā is the edition’s note to Ibn Kathīr, who writes an-Nasāʼī, and not the Sunan is the sweep of the six; build 165), and ITS WORDING IS DIFFERENT — aliẓẓū bi-dhī l-jalāli wa-l-ikrām, without the vocative — so it corroborates the command and not the printed phrase. Al-Ḥākim and the two book numbers were struck as unverified rather than hedged. AṬ-ṬIRMIDHĪ’S OWN VERDICT WAS ALSO UNDERSTATED: the grade said gharīb, but at 3525 he says gharīb AND NOT MAḤFŪẒ, names Muʼammal’s mistake, holds the preserved form to reach only al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī with no Companion in it, and says Muʼammal is not followed — and 3525 is the page this book quotes from. Ibn Kathīr reproduces that verdict word for word.
A GRADER WAS MISSING: Aḥmad Shākir grades 3525 ṣaḥīḥ and was not listed. CORRECTED, THE DUʻĀʼ: the grade recorded ONE of FOUR verdicts the dataset gives at Abū Dāwūd 1495, and the one it left out is the one that disagrees — Darussalam grade the isnād ḥasan where al-Albānī, Shuʻayb al-Arnāʼūṭ and Muḥammad Muḥyī ad-Dīn ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd say ṣaḥīḥ. The note said the Prophet ﷺ called it HIS GREATEST NAME; 1495 reads bi-smihi l-ʻaẓīm, His Mighty Name, and the aʻẓam wording belongs to the other two routes, at-Tirmidhī 3544 and Ibn Mājah 3858, which carry a shorter text. The unnumbered claim that at-Tirmidhī and an-Nasāʼī carry parallels is true and is now given with numbers, 3544 and 1300, with Ibn Mājah 3858 added.
CORRECTED, THE HOUSE FORMS: the ref carried Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 592a, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 591 and Jāmiʻ at-Tirmidhī 3507, and the ḥadīth source carried Jāmiʻ at-Tirmidhī 3525; all four are now house forms, and the enumeration at at-Tirmidhī 3507 is now given with its grade, ḍaʻīf by Aḥmad Shākir, al-Albānī and Darussalam.
LETTER-CHECKED: every printed Arabic string on this Name was run through letter-only containment against the dataset before anything was edited. Both āyāt verify EXACT. Muslim 2566 is contiguous and whole. The aliẓẓū phrase is contained in both 3524 and 3525. The duʻāʼ is contiguous save for ONE orthographic divergence, as-samāwāt written plene here against as-samawāt in the dataset; the halves either side of it were checked separately against Abū Dāwūd 1495 and an-Nasāʼī 1300 and both are contained, so it is a spelling and not a splice, and the book’s plene spelling is kept.
MEDS 41 CORRECTED: its whole claim, that majesty can afford to draw near, rested on nothing on the page — the report that says exactly that was sitting unquoted on this Name’s own Ḥadīth page. Muslim 2566 is now quoted in it word for word from the book’s own translation, and al-Qurṭubī’s jalīl in His essence, karīm in His acts is added to the first paragraph. POEMS 41 and CH 41 read and left unchanged.
LEFT AS FIGURE, NOT FACT: the poem has the roar of a waterfall reach you a half-second before the spray. Read as a measurement that is wrong by orders of magnitude in the direction of understatement — sound outruns wind-carried spray by seconds at any distance where both arrive — but it is a figure for the body answering before the mind does, which is the poem’s subject, and it is recorded here rather than rewritten.
OPEN: al-Maqṣad al-Asnā is still unread in al-Ghazālī’s own text; if it is ever reached, the tripartite line may turn out to be his as well as Ibn al-Athīr’s, and the attributions struck at Names 38 and 39 could be restored.
OPEN: an-Nasāʼī’s as-Sunan al-Kubrā and Aḥmad’s Musnad are not in the six editions fetched here, so the Rabīʻah ibn ʻĀmir chain rests on Ibn Kathīr’s report of it and is named that way on the page.
OPEN, FOR THE AUTHOR: the English on this Name is The Glorious while POEMS 41 calls Him the Majestic, and jalāl is rendered majesty everywhere else in the entry; that mismatch is left alone because the English of a Name is the author’s call (closed by the author’s decision, A53: the title is The Majestic from build 182, and Name 48 takes The Glorious).
COHERENCE: NAME 85 shares the whole of this material and four things were carried across to it. Its duʻāʼ note said Muslim 591 carries the yā, which CONTRADICTED NAME 5 AND THE DATASET — 591 reads tabārakta dhā without the vocative, and the yā at Name 5 is Ibn Mājah 928’s; Name 5 had it right all along and Name 85 is now brought to it. Its Muslim 592a entry had no grade and had a narrator inside the citation; both are fixed and the whole-book count of duʻāʼ without a grade falls by one. Its aliẓẓū source, grade and note are made identical to this Name’s, and the al-Ḥākim claim is struck there too. Its Muslim 1348 lost the Arabic punctuation in its ar and the long form of its citation, so the whole-book count of ḥadīth with Arabic punctuation also falls by one. NAME 95 carried Abū Dāwūd 1495 twice (it now carries it once, as its duʻāʼ, and names it in its note on at-Tirmidhī 3544; build 165) and NAMES 62 AND 63 carry at-Tirmidhī 3524; all four gained the missing graders, so that no two places in the book now grade the same page differently.
AFTER NAME 85: Name 85 now states both its roots and links back here; its notes on the shared āyāt and the aliẓẓū report are rewritten, the links unchanged. AFTER THE CHAT-END AUDIT OF 81–85: the grade field of Abū Dāwūd 1495 now gives every grader in the dataset’s rows, each attributed to its record (the grade survey). AFTER THE CHAT-END AUDIT OF 1–99: the capitalised runs in the desc and the ref are set in lower case, the words unchanged. the apparatus words naming the arrays in the senseNote are replaced by plain words.
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 they are the two āyāt, Abū Dāwūd 1495 on the Duʻāʼ page, and at-Tirmidhī 3525 on the Ḥadīth page.
IN BUILD 165, FROM THE PHASE 2 READING: the ref names yujallīhā at 7:187 among the five words of j-l-w, and 7:187 stands on the named line; it gives the words ʻĀʼishah reports in full, with Ibn Numayr’s yā, and names Ibn Mājah 3861’s list beside at-Tirmidhī 3507; Ibn Fāris, reached on the web, gives the letters three roots; the senseNote gives al-Ghazālī, as Ibn Imām al-Kāmiliyyah quotes him, for the line the desc gives Ibn al-Athīr, and Name 85’s desc and ref for the shared root; the 55:27 note says at-Tirmidhī’s list carries both Names and Ibn Mājah’s al-Jalīl alone, and sets al-Qurṭubī’s readers and Ibn ʻĀshūr’s consensus beside the reading reported of Ibn Masʻūd; the 55:78 note names majesty twice, the second time at the close; the aliẓẓū note names Abū ʻUbayd and al-Jawharī as the commentators quote them, and the Kubrā as the edition’s note; its grade gives at-Tirmidhī’s verdict at each record, as Name 85’s does.
READ ON THE WEB, NOT PINNED: al-Ghazālī’s line as Ibn Imām al-Kāmiliyyah quotes it, and Ibn Fāris’s Maqāyīs in the IslamWeb text, both recorded in the kit; the OPEN item on al-Maqṣad al-Asnā is answered in part, a quotation and not his text. The aged man and the print lexica stay to be read, and the title waits on the author (A53).
BY THE AUTHOR’S DECISIONS OF 2026-09-25, IN BUILD 182: the English title is The Majestic in all seven arrays and the meditation’s title fields, the ids and slugs unchanged, and Name 48 takes The Glorious; MEDS 41 calls bi-jalālī the noun of this Name’s own root; the OPEN item on the title is closed in place (A53).