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المحصي

The Accounter

Al-Muḥṣī

The census ledger — a number that was never a number.

Meaning

From the root ḥ-ṣ-y, which Ibn Fāris gives three origins: withholding; counting a thing and being equal to it; and pebbles, from which he does not derive the counting. To aḥṣā a thing is to number it through and be equal to it. Five times Allah is the subject and the count is complete — all things, in number, in a clear record, what they did and forgot. Three times it is denied to people: count the favour of Allah and you will not count it through; He knew you would not be equal to the night, and turned to you. His count of you is exhaustive; yours of Him fails, and twice the failure is answered with forgiveness. The Sunnah gives the verb one task more: whoever counts the Names through enters Paradise.

Root ḥ-ṣ-y — counting a thing through and being equal to it

Counted by hand from the Tanzil text. The root is final-weak, so the sweep is ḥāʼ and ṣād with at most one letter between: fifty-nine words, forty-eight of them look-alikes — ḥ-ṣ-n eighteen, ḥ-ṣ-d and ḥ-ṣ-r six each, ḥ-y-ṣ and ḥ-ṣ-b five each, ḥ-r-ṣ four, m-ḥ-ṣ two, ḥ-ṣ-l and ḥaṣḥaṣa one each. The root is eleven words, and no participle of it stands in the Qurʼan; al-Muḥṣī does not occur. Of Allah, five: 19:94, 36:12, 58:6, 72:28 and 78:29. Of the Book, one: 18:49. Of people, five: commanded at 65:1, count the waiting period; denied at 14:34 and 16:18, count the favour of Allah and you will not count it through, and at 73:20, He knew you would not be equal to it; and 18:12, which of two parties reckoned the time, where aṭ-Ṭabarī glosses aḥṣā as aṣwab, nearer the right measure. Five of the eleven stand beside ʻ-d-d: at 19:94 and 72:28 His counting is completed, at 14:34 and 16:18 ours is attempted and the iḥṣāʼ denied, and at 65:1 the count commanded is of an ʻiddah. Ibn Fāris: three origins — al-manʻ, withholding; al-ʻadd wa-l-iṭāqah, counting a thing and being equal to it, proved from 73:20 and 58:6; and al-ḥaṣā, pebbles, from which ḥaṣāh, intellect, is drawn. Aṭ-Ṭabarī at 73:20: lan tuṭīqūhu, with al-Ḥasan. Ibn Kathīr at 36:12: the clear record is the Mother of the Book, with Mujāhid and Qatādah. Reports: al-Bukhārī 2736 and Muslim 2677b, man aḥṣāhā; Muslim 2677a, whose own wording is man ḥafiẓahā, with man aḥṣāhā as Ibn Abī ʻUmar’s; al-Bukhārī 7392, which glosses aḥṣaynāhu as ḥafiẓnāhu; and Ibn Mājah 277, istaqīmū wa-lan tuḥṣū. The Name-form stands in the list at at-Tirmidhī 3507, graded ḍaʻīf by al-Albānī, Aḥmad Shākir and Darussalam. Ḥ-s-b, Name 40, is a different root.

Story

The census took Marwan four years, and it broke something in him that he was glad to have broken. His task was to count a city — every household, every soul, for the taxation rolls — and he approached it as an arithmetical problem, which is what it was.

By the second year it had stopped being one. He had knocked on more than two thousand doors. He had written down the name of a woman who had buried four children and had a fifth on her hip; a man who could not remember his own age and was certain about the year his donkey died; twin brothers who had not spoken in twenty-five years and lived on the same street. Each of them took two lines in his ledger. Each of them had an entire interior life that he glimpsed for four minutes and would never see again.

What undid him was the arithmetic he could not do. He could count the people.

He could not count what he had brushed past: the number of griefs in that city, the number of unspoken hopes, the number of separate reasons that eleven thousand people got up in the morning. It was not that the number was large. It was that there was no way, even in principle, for a man with a ledger to hold it.

The rolls were used for what rolls are used for. A tax followed, and it fell hardest on the quarter Marwan had counted most carefully, because he had found people there that earlier counts had missed. He had done the work honestly and the honesty had a price that other people paid. He thought about the woman with the child on her hip more than was reasonable, and could not decide, ever, whether he had wronged her by writing her down.

He finished the count. He was never able afterward to hear a population spoken of as a figure without a small internal objection, because he had learned what a figure is made of.

Poem

A child crouches at the tideline,
filling one closed fist with sand,
trying to count it grain by grain
before the tide comes back to interrupt her.

She gets to around forty before losing her place.
Starts over. Gets to sixty. Loses count again.
Gives up somewhere past a hundred
and lets the rest run out between her fingers,
back into everything it came from.

That single fistful, if anyone had the patience,
holds hundreds of thousands of grains, or more.
That beach holds more fistfuls than one lifetime could gather.
Every beach on Earth, together, holds a number so large
that saying it aloud, one grain at a time,
would still leave most of it unsaid
when the counting ran out of years.

And every one of those grains has already been counted.
Not estimated in bulk, the way a geologist estimates a beach’s weight.
Counted — this one, and this one, and this one,
down to the grain running out between her fingers right now,
individually, exactly,
the whole while she loses track around a hundred
and gives up.

Al-Muḥṣī is not a larger, more patient version of her counting.
He is what makes the difference between an estimate, however careful,
and a total that was never once approximate,
every grain accounted for,
not as a category,
but one
at a time,
all the way down
to the very last one.

Reflection

The Unlost Count

You have never once kept an accurate count of your own life. Not really. You remember the days that felt large — a wedding, a diagnosis, a death — and you lose the rest to a blur you call “last year” or “my twenties,” a smear of Tuesdays that passed through you and left no mark you can retrieve. Somewhere in that blur is the exact number of times you almost told someone the truth and didn’t. You will never know that number. You have already lost count.

Al-Muḥṣī has not. Every breath you have drawn since the day you were born — Allah has the sum. Every word spoken in a room you thought was empty, every private mercy no one else saw, every small cruelty you told yourself didn’t register because no one saw it — counted. Not estimated. Not rounded to the nearest hundred, the way you round your own memory. Counted, one at a time, the way the poem’s sand is counted: down to the very last grain, all the way down, while you were busy losing track around a hundred and giving up.

This should not first feel like surveillance. It should feel like the opposite of the ledger in the story — a count that takes nothing from anyone, that falls hardest on no district, that costs no one anything at all for having been written down. That count was honest and still did harm, because a human count always has to choose what it can afford to notice. Allah’s count chooses nothing and misses nothing. It is not a tax roll. It is simply true.

So the smallness of your days is not a problem to be solved by becoming a more disciplined record-keeper of yourself. You were never going to out-count Al-Muḥṣī, and you do not need to. What you can do is stop assuming that the moments no one else saw went uncounted. The kindness no one saw was seen. The private failure no one traced back to you was traced. Nothing you have done has slipped through, the way it slips through your own memory by evening.

You will forget almost everything about today by next year. He will not.

Everything you lost count of, He has counted, and He has not forgotten it since.

Qurʼan

لَقَدْ أَحْصَاهُمْ وَعَدَّهُمْ عَدًّا

He has enumerated them and counted them precisely.

19:94 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Two roots in one sentence: aḥṣāhum, from ḥ-ṣ-y, and ʻaddahum ʻaddā, from ʻ-d-d with its own verbal noun. The verse before says that every one in the heavens and the earth comes to ar-Raḥmān as a servant, and the verse after that each of them will come to Him on the Day of Resurrection alone; between the two, He has counted them through and numbered them. The same two roots stand together at 72:28, 14:34, 16:18 and 65:1, below.

وَأَحَاطَ بِمَا لَدَيْهِمْ وَأَحْصَىٰ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ عَدَدًا

And He has encompassed what is with them, and has enumerated all things in number.

72:28 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Closes Sūrat al-Jinn. Its immediate context is 72:26–27, Allah’s knowledge of the unseen and His guarding of what is revealed to His messengers, so the comprehensive counting closes the sūrah’s larger claim and not the jinn passage narrowly. Aḥṣā kulla shayʼin ʻadadā puts this root and ʻ-d-d together again, as 19:94 does.

لَا يُغَادِرُ صَغِيرَةً وَلَا كَبِيرَةً إِلَّا أَحْصَاهَا ۚ وَوَجَدُوا مَا عَمِلُوا حَاضِرًا

It leaves out nothing small or great, but has enumerated it. And they will find what they did present before them.

18:49 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The one place the verb is said of a book: the record the wrongdoers dread leaves nothing small or great without having counted it, and they find what they did present. The grammatical subject is the record rather than Allah, and the verse closes on your Lord wrongs no one — a ledger that omits nothing, which is what the census-taker of the story understands he cannot himself produce.

إِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْيِي الْمَوْتَىٰ وَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَدَّمُوا وَآثَارَهُمْ ۚ وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَاهُ فِي إِمَامٍ مُّبِينٍ

Truly it is We who give life to the dead, and We write what they have sent ahead and what they left behind; and every thing We have enumerated in a clear record.

36:12 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Allah as the subject in the plural of majesty, and the counting given a place: every thing We have enumerated in a clear record. Ibn Kathīr: all that exists is written in a book set down and exact in the Preserved Tablet, and the clear record here is the Mother of the Book, which he gives from Mujāhid, Qatādah and ʻAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam. The verse joins the counting to the writing of what people sent ahead and the traces they left.

وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَاهُ كِتَابًا

And every thing We have enumerated in writing.

78:29 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The sentence of 36:12 with the record given as a manner rather than a place: every thing We have enumerated, in writing. Two verses earlier the same passage says of the people of the Fire that they did not expect a reckoning, ḥisāb — the root of Name 40 — and denied the signs outright; the counting is set against the reckoning they did not expect.

يَوْمَ يَبْعَثُهُمُ اللَّهُ جَمِيعًا فَيُنَبِّئُهُم بِمَا عَمِلُوا ۚ أَحْصَاهُ اللَّهُ وَنَسُوهُ ۚ وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ

On the Day Allah raises them all together, He will inform them of what they did. Allah has kept account of it, and they forgot it. And Allah is, over all things, a Witness.

58:6 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Carried at Name 50 for the Witness who closes the verse; here for the verb in the middle of it. It is the one place the Qurʼan sets Allah’s counting against human forgetting in two words, aḥṣāhu llāhu wa-nasūhu, Allah counted it and they forgot it, and it is one of the two verses Ibn Fāris quotes for this root’s second origin, counting a thing and being equal to it.

وَإِن تَعُدُّوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ لَا تُحْصُوهَا ۗ إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَظَلُومٌ كَفَّارٌ

And if you should count the favour of Allah, you could not count it through. Truly man is much wronging, much ungrateful.

14:34 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The root turned on people. The verse uses both verbs — taʻuddū, count, from ʻ-d-d, and tuḥṣūhā, from this root — so the counting is allowed and the counting-through is denied. It closes on what man is. As-Saʻdī: you will not count them through, let alone rise to thanking for them. The desc builds on this frame.

وَإِن تَعُدُّوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ لَا تُحْصُوهَا ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

And if you should count the favour of Allah, you could not count it through. Truly Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

16:18 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The sentence of 14:34 with a different close. There the count that fails ends on what man is, ẓalūmun kaffār; here it ends on what Allah is, ghafūrun raḥīm. These are the only two places the Qurʼan says His favour cannot be counted through, and the page prints both for the sake of the two endings.

وَاللَّهُ يُقَدِّرُ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ ۚ عَلِمَ أَن لَّن تُحْصُوهُ فَتَابَ عَلَيْكُمْ ۖ فَاقْرَءُوا مَا تَيَسَّرَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ

And Allah measures the night and the day. He knew that you would not be equal to it, so He turned to you; so recite what is easy of the Qurʼan.

73:20 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The second half of the root, and the verse Ibn Fāris quotes to prove it: counting a thing and being equal to it. Those who had kept the night prayer are told that Allah measures the night and the day, and knew they would not be equal to it, and turned to them. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: lan tuṭīqūhu, you will not bear it, with al-Ḥasan for the gloss. As-Saʻdī: you will not know its measure without excess or shortfall. So of the three verses where the verb fails people, this is the one where what fails is strength rather than number, and it is also a verse of lightening. The portion printed is from the middle of a long āyah.

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ إِذَا طَلَّقْتُمُ النِّسَاءَ فَطَلِّقُوهُنَّ لِعِدَّتِهِنَّ وَأَحْصُوا الْعِدَّةَ

O Prophet, when you divorce women, divorce them for their waiting period, and count the waiting period.

65:1 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The one command of this root in the Qurʼan: count the waiting period. The waiting period is al-ʻiddah, of ʻ-d-d, twice in the portion printed, so the root this Name’s verb stands beside at 19:94, 72:28, 14:34 and 16:18 is here the very thing counted. The counting Allah is said to complete of all things is required of people once, and it is a legal count — the verse goes on to forbid putting the divorced woman out of her house, so the exact count protects her right to stay there. The portion printed is the opening of the āyah.

ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ لِنَعْلَمَ أَيُّ الْحِزْبَيْنِ أَحْصَىٰ لِمَا لَبِثُوا أَمَدًا

Then We raised them, that We might make evident which of the two parties reckoned best the span they had remained.

18:12 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Said of people, and the form is divided: aḥṣā may be read as the verb or as the comparative. Aṭ-Ṭabarī glosses it aṣwab, nearer the right measure of how long they stayed. Ibn ʻĀshūr takes the two parties to be two groups of their townspeople who disagreed about the length of the sleep, one right and one wrong, and rejects reading them as two groups of the sleepers. It is the one occurrence in which a human count is tested against what actually happened.

Dua

سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ عَدَدَ خَلْقِهِ وَرِضَا نَفْسِهِ وَزِنَةَ عَرْشِهِ وَمِدَادَ كَلِمَاتِهِ

Glory be to Allah, and praise Him, as many times as the number of His creation, and the extent of His pleasure, and the weight of His Throne, and the ink of His words.

Muslim 2726a · ṣaḥīḥ

From Juwayriyah: four phrases the Prophet ﷺ said three times after leaving her, which he told her would outweigh all she had said since morning. No transmitted supplication in the six editions addresses Allah as al-Muḥṣī; the Name-form stands in them only in the list at at-Tirmidhī 3507. ʻAdada khalqihi, the number of His creation, is of ʻ-d-d, the root this Name’s verb stands beside at 19:94, 72:28, 14:34, 16:18 and 65:1: a dhikr whose stated measure is a count no one reciting it could carry through. The Name’s own verb stands in the supplication below, lā uḥṣī thanāʼan ʻalayka, which Name 78 carries as well. Muslim publishes no grade row, so the verdict is bare.

لَا أُحْصِي ثَنَاءً عَلَيْكَ أَنْتَ كَمَا أَثْنَيْتَ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِكَ

I cannot reckon praise of You; You are as You have praised Yourself.

Muslim 486 · ṣaḥīḥ

From ʻĀʼishah, who missed him from the bed one night and, reaching for him, found the soles of his feet upright as he said it: the closing clause of a supplication that begins with refuge in His pleasure from His anger, given identically at Name 78. Uḥṣī is this Name’s own verb, and here the servant says it of himself: the count that fails people at 14:34, 16:18 and 73:20 fails again in praise, and is confessed.

Hadith

إِنَّ لِلَّهِ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ اسْمًا مِائَةً إِلَّا وَاحِدًا مَنْ أَحْصَاهَا دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ

Truly Allah has ninety-nine names — a hundred less one — whoever enumerates them will enter Paradise.

al-Bukhārī 2736; Muslim 2677b · ṣaḥīḥ (muttafaq ʻalayh)

From Abū Hurayrah, and the report the book’s ninety-nine rest on; man aḥṣāhā is this Name’s own verb. Al-Bukhārī 2736, through Shuʻayb from Abū z-Zinād, and Muslim 2677b, through Maʻmar, both carry the printed wording letter for letter. Muslim 2677a, through Sufyān ibn ʻUyaynah, reads in ʻAmr an-Nāqid’s wording man ḥafiẓahā, whoever keeps them, without a hundred less one, adds that Allah is witr and loves the witr, and records that Ibn Abī ʻUmar’s version reads man aḥṣāhā. Al-Bukhārī 7392 gives the report again and follows it with his own gloss on aḥṣaynāhu, the word of 36:12 and 78:29: ḥafiẓnāhu, We have kept it. So the two verbs the recensions divide between are, in al-Bukhārī’s own reading, one; ḥafīẓ is Name 38. Neither edition publishes a grade row, so the verdict is bare of graders.

اسْتَقِيمُوا وَلَنْ تُحْصُوا وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ خَيْرَ أَعْمَالِكُمُ الصَّلَاةُ وَلَا يُحَافِظُ عَلَى الْوُضُوءِ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ

Keep to the straight way — and you will not be equal to all of it — and know that the best of your deeds is the prayer, and none keeps up the ablution but a believer.

Ibn Mājah 277 · ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī); ḥasan (Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ; Darussalam)

From Thawbān. The same verb as 73:20 and in the same second sense: lan tuḥṣū, you will not be equal to it. Ibn Fāris proves that sense, counting a thing and being equal to it, from 73:20, and aṭ-Ṭabarī glosses lan tuḥṣūhu there as lan tuṭīqūhu; the six editions carry no gloss on the report itself, and the English follows the verse’s sense. Ibn Mājah 278, from ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAmr, has the same opening with min afḍali aʻmālikum, among the best of your deeds, graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī, ṣaḥīḥ li-ghayrih by Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ and ḥasan by Darussalam.

Study Notes

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CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: EVERY OCCURRENCE OF THE ROOT IN THE QURʼAN, eleven āyāt. Carried before: 19:94, where aḥṣāhum stands beside ʻaddahum ʻaddā; 72:28, closing Sūrat al-Jinn; and 18:49, the one place the verb is said of a book. Appended in this pass: 36:12 and 78:29, the other two places Allah is the subject in the plural of majesty, in a clear record and in writing; 58:6, SHARED WITH NAME 50 as an exact share, aḥṣāhu llāhu wa-nasūhu, one of Ibn Fāris’s two proof texts; 14:34 and 16:18, the favour of Allah that people cannot count through, printed together for their two endings; 73:20, lan tuḥṣūhu, the root’s second half and Ibn Fāris’s other proof text; 65:1, the root’s one command, count the waiting period; and 18:12, the two parties who reckoned the sleepers’ span. The distinct verse count in Notes on This Edition moves from 478 to 485.

NAMED HERE BUT NOT CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 72:26–27, carried at Name 75, which prints 72:26.

CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE COUNT: the entry had none. The root is final-weak, so the sweep is ḥāʼ and ṣād with at most one letter between, on the Tanzil text: fifty-nine words, and forty-eight are look-alikes — ḥ-ṣ-n eighteen, ḥ-ṣ-d and ḥ-ṣ-r six each, ḥ-y-ṣ and ḥ-ṣ-b five each, ḥ-r-ṣ four, m-ḥ-ṣ two, ḥ-ṣ-l and ḥaṣḥaṣa one each. THE ROOT IS ELEVEN WORDS.

CLASSIFIED BY WHAT IT IS SAID OF: Allah five times, and every one is complete; the book once; people five times — commanded once, at 65:1, DENIED THREE TIMES, at 14:34, 16:18 and 73:20, and tested once, at 18:12. So nearly half the root is about people, and of that half most is the count they cannot finish. FOUR OF THE ELEVEN STAND BESIDE ʻ-D-D (five: at 65:1 the waiting period counted is al-ʻiddah, of ʻ-d-d, twice: corrected in build 179): at 19:94 and 72:28 His counting is completed; at 14:34 and 16:18 people may count, and the counting-through is denied them. No participle of the root stands in the Qurʼan, and the page’s occurrence field stays derived. The page had carried three of the eleven. FOUND / CORRECTED / REMOVED, AS UNVERIFIED: THE DESC DERIVED THE COUNTING FROM THE PEBBLES — from ḥaṣā, the pebbles the Arabs counted with. IBN FĀRIS, READ IN HIS OWN TEXT, GIVES THE ROOT THREE ORIGINS AND MAKES THE COUNTING AND THE PEBBLES TWO OF THEM: withholding, al-ḥaṣw; counting a thing and being equal to it, al-ʻadd wa-l-iṭāqah, with 73:20 and 58:6; and pebbles, al-ḥaṣā, from which he draws ḥaṣāh, intellect, because a pebble has firmness. He does not derive one from another, and no source read here says the Arabs counted with pebbles; the derivation is STRUCK AS CONTRADICTED by the only lexicon read. THE REF SAID Ḥ-Ṣ-Y GIVES ENUMERATION ONLY, WITH NO SECOND SENSE ATTACHED; Ibn Fāris puts being equal to a thing inside the counting origin itself, and the Qurʼan uses that sense at 73:20, where aṭ-Ṭabarī glosses lan tuḥṣūhu as lan tuṭīqūhu — so the claim is STRUCK AS FALSE, and the comparison with Name 40 now says only that the roots differ. MUSLIM 2677 IS IN THE DATASET. The ḥadīth note said it was not — no record of that number exists in the edition — and struck as unchecked the statement that Muslim’s own wording reads man ḥafiẓahā with man aḥṣāhā as Ibn Abī ʻUmar’s, and narrowed the grade. That search had asked for the bare number; the edition keeps Muslim’s sub-letters as decimals, the trap the toolkit records, and the records stand as 2677a and 2677b. 2677a says exactly what the struck statement said, which is now restored as checked, and 2677b carries the printed wording letter for letter, so the source is al-Bukhārī 2736 with Muslim 2677b and the grade is ṣaḥīḥ, muttafaq ʻalayh. Name 6 had cited Muslim 2677a correctly all along. THE 19:94 NOTE SAID ʻADDAHUM ʻADDĀ DOUBLES THE ROOT; it is a second root, ʻ-d-d. The ref carried Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 2736, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2677 and Jāmiʻ at-Tirmidhī 3507 against house form, and did not grade 3507. The Duʻāʼ and Ḥadīth notes carried production history.

IN THE MEDITATION: the banned phrase happened to, and the good a person does called unwitnessed and shown to no witness; rephrased so that nothing is called unwitnessed.

IN THE POEM: a fistful of sand holds something close to ten thousand grains. That is invented precision and wrong by more than an order of magnitude — a closed fist holds some tens of cubic centimetres, and beach sand of a quarter to half a millimetre gives several hundred thousand grains to a few million in that volume — so the line now says hundreds of thousands of grains, or more.

IN THE STORY: Marwan had knocked on ten thousand doors in a city of eleven thousand people, which would make a household of one; it now says more than two thousand doors.

READ: the Tanzil text for all fifty-nine returns, each in its verse. Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lughah at ḥ-ṣ-w and ḥ-ṣ-y, IN HIS OWN TEXT, in the Shamela transcription of the Hārūn edition, volume two, the two pages the entry spans. Aṭ-Ṭabarī at 73:20 and 18:12; Ibn Kathīr at 36:12 and 73:20; as-Saʻdī at 14:34 and 73:20; Ibn ʻĀshūr at 18:12 and 73:20 — through the tafsir dataset. Letter by letter with their grade rows: al-Bukhārī 2736 and 7392, Muslim 2677a, 2677b and 2726a, Ibn Mājah 277 and 278, at-Tirmidhī 3506 and 3507; all six editions swept for the Name-form, which stands only in the list at at-Tirmidhī 3507.

NOT READ: ar-Rāghib, Lisān al-ʻArab and az-Zamakhsharī for this root; any grammarian on whether aḥṣā at 18:12 is verb or comparative, which is recorded as divided and not settled; al-Ghazālī’s al-Maqṣad al-Asnā, still not reached.

OPEN: the statement that no transmitted supplication addresses al-Muḥṣī rests on a sweep of the six editions for the Name-form and should go if one turns up. The Ibn Mājah 277 report is rendered in the sense aṭ-Ṭabarī gives the same verb at 73:20; no gloss on the report itself was read. The session_check claim that Muslim 2677 is absent from the dataset was true only of the bare number and has been replaced.

COHERENCE: 58:6 is now carried at Name 50 and at this Name with the same Arabic and English, linked both ways in SHARED_LOCI, and Name 50’s Study Note says so. Al-Bukhārī 7392’s gloss ties this Name’s verb to Name 38’s, ḥafiẓa. 78:29 stands two verses after ḥisāb, Name 40’s root, and its note says so. Name 6 already cites Muslim 2677a and is unchanged.

HYGIENE AFTER NAME 61: the Qurʼan note on 14:34 narrated the page’s own editing — The desc builds on this frame, and the page had not carried it — and the clause is removed with the fact it carried kept. 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.

IN BUILD 179, FROM THE PHASE 2 READING: the ref, the 19:94 note and the Duʻāʼ note count five of the eleven beside ʻ-d-d, 65:1 among them, and the 65:1 note says the ʻiddah counted is of that root; the 73:20 note makes it one of the three verses where the verb fails people; the note on the base report gives al-Bukhārī 2736 its own chain, through Shuʻayb from Abū z-Zinād, and Muslim 2677b its chain through Maʻmar. Muslim 486’s closing clause, lā uḥṣī thanāʼan ʻalayka, is printed on the Duʻāʼ page as at Name 78, with the same Arabic, English, source and grade, and linked both ways in SHARED_LOCI; the Duʻāʼ note names it and gives ʻadada khalqihi its root rather than a verb. The count line is corrected in place above.

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.

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