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المعيد

The Restorer

Al-Muʻīd

The village rebuilt — brought back, stone by remembered stone.

Meaning

From the root ʻ-w-d, which Ibn Fāris gives two origins: doing a thing a second time, and a kind of wood. From the first come the return, the visiting of the sick, what keeps recurring, and maʻād, the place a thing goes back to — and he names Allah al-Mubdiʼ al-Muʻīd, who began creation and brings it back. The Qurʼan’s weight falls differently. The verb that brings back is Allah’s in fifteen of its eighteen uses: the creation repeated, Mūsā’s staff restored to its first state, and people returned into the Fire whenever they try to leave it. The verb that goes back is said of people fifteen times, and fourteen are a return to what they had left. Once only it is the return to Him: as He began you, so you will return.

Root ʻ-w-d — doing a thing a second time

Counted by hand from the Tanzil text. The root is hollow and its wāw drops in ʻudtum and ʻudnā, so the sweep is ʻayn, an optional weak letter and dāl: six hundred and seventy words, thirty-eight of them the root; the thirty-ninth, ʻāʼidūn at 44:15, you will return, falls outside the window once its hamzah seat is folded, and is said of people going back on what they promised. The look-alikes are b-ʻ-d, w-ʻ-d, ʻ-d-w, ʻ-d-d, ʻ-d-l, q-ʻ-d, ṣ-ʻ-d, ʻ-d-n, r-ʻ-d, s-ʻ-d and ʻ-d-s, and ʻĀd, the people of Hūd, spelled exactly like ʻāda, he returned, twenty-four times. The causative, the Name’s verb, eighteen: of Allah fifteen — the creation repeated at 10:4, 10:34, 27:64, 29:19, 30:11, 30:27, 21:104 and 85:13, on one reading; who will restore us, answered at 17:51; returned into the earth at 20:55 and 71:18, into the sea at 17:69; the staff restored at 20:21; returned into the Fire at 22:22 and 32:20 — and three not: denied to the partners in 10:34 and to falsehood at 34:49, and said of the townspeople who would force the youths back into their religion at 18:20. The simple verb, eighteen: of Allah twice, if you return We return (8:19, 17:8); of the moon once (36:39); of people fifteen times, and fourteen are a return to what they had left — 2:275, 5:95, 6:28, 7:88, 7:89 twice, 8:19, 8:38, 14:13, 17:8, 23:107, 24:17, 58:3 and 58:8 — with 7:29, the return to Him, the only exception. Nouns: maʻād at 28:85, ʻīd at 5:114. Ibn Fāris: two origins, doing a matter a second time and a kind of wood; with al-Khalīl, badaʼa thumma ʻāda; maʻād, anything to which the going is, the Hereafter being people’s; and Allah is al-Mubdiʼ al-Muʻīd, having begun creation and restoring it. At 29:19 aṭ-Ṭabarī reads the beginning in this life, child to man, and the repeating as the raising after death, with Qatādah, and gives abdaʼa and badaʼa as one meaning; as-Saʻdī reads the Resurrection. At 28:85 al-Bukhārī 4773 gives Ibn ʻAbbās, Makkah; Ibn Kathīr, the Day of Resurrection. Reports: al-Bukhārī 4974 and 4625. The Name-form stands in the list at at-Tirmidhī 3507, graded ḍaʻīf by al-Albānī, Aḥmad Shākir and Darussalam, and at Ibn Mājah 3861, with the caveat recorded at Name 12.

Story

The fire took eight hours and left the village a black outline. Every roof, the mill, the school, the two hundred year old mosque with the carved doors. The families stood on the hill and watched it, and afterward the sensible advice from every direction was to go elsewhere and start again, because a ruin is cheaper to abandon than to restore.

They stayed, and did the harder thing: they brought it back. Not approximately.

Aisha, who was eighty-one and had lived there her whole life, sat in a chair in the middle of the ash for twenty months, and the village was rebuilt largely out of her memory — the width of the lane, the position of the well, which way the mosque doors had opened, the exact place where a stone with a date carved on it had sat above the mill entrance. Where memory failed, they searched the debris and found. The carved doors were beyond saving; a carpenter copied them from the pattern of the scorched originals.

It took eleven years. Visitors who came afterward could not tell that anything had happened, which was the point and also, strangely, the sorrow of it — the whole enormous labor was invisible precisely to the degree that it had succeeded.

Not everyone stayed for it. Eleven families left in the second year, having concluded that the years it would take were too much to spend on a lane being the right width, and some of them were never spoken to again by those who remained. Aisha never criticized them. She said they had been asked for something nobody has a right to ask for, and that she had asked for it anyway.

The stone with the date on it was found in the third year, cracked across but whole enough, and they set it back above the mill entrance in its own place. It is the only thing in the village that shows. Aisha was carried out in her chair to watch it go up. She said nothing at all, and was taken home.

Poem

A shattered bowl does not become raw clay again.
Even in pieces on the floor,
each shard still remembers the exact curve
it used to belong to —
the same shape it held for years,
now scattered,
but never forgotten by the clay itself.

A skilled restorer does not start over.
They gather the pieces,
feel for where each broken edge
used to meet its neighbor,
and set the bowl back
into the one shape
it was always going to return to,
because that shape was never lost —
only interrupted.

This is different work than the first shaping.
The first bowl demanded a potter’s whole imagination,
working from nothing but wet clay
and an idea of what a bowl should be.
The mending needs no such leap.
The shape already exists, proven,
in the memory of the break itself.
The work now is only ever
return.

Al-Muʻīd does not begin again from formlessness.
He restores what was already whole once,
along the exact lines the first shaping left behind —
not a new bowl,
but the old one,
found again,
exactly where the break
said it used to be.

Reflection

The Exact Return

Something in you has been burned down to its outline the way the village in the story is — a friendship, a season of faith, a version of yourself you liked better. And the sensible advice, when a thing is that far gone, is to leave it and start somewhere else, since a ruin costs less to walk away from than to bring back. You have probably taken that advice more than once. Al-Muʻīd never does.

What the old woman in the story does with eleven years and a chair set in the ashes, Allah does perpetually and without labor: not approximate replacement, but exact return. The seasons die back to bare ground every year and are not reinvented from scratch each spring — they come back along the same lines, the way they always have. A heart gone cold in prayer is not asked to become a different heart; it is revived, restored to what it was and could be again. And on the last day, what has decayed to nothing will not be recreated as something merely similar. It will be you, returned — the exact shape that neither memory nor the earth could finally erase.

This is not a lesser act than the first creation — the Qurʼan makes the sharper claim: it is easier still for Him. The poem has it exactly: the mending needs no leap, because the shape already exists, proven, in the memory of the break — every shard remembering the curve it used to belong to. Al-Mubdiʼ began where there was no clay to work and no idea to work from. Al-Muʻīd works from wreckage and brings back the thing itself, not a replacement for it.

So when something in you is ash, this is not the end of that thing’s story, even when you cannot picture how it comes back. You do not have to be your own restorer — that is not a labor asked of you, or within your power to perform. What is asked is smaller and harder: to stay, the way those in the story who did not go stayed, and to trust that what looks like ruin is not yet final, because nothing that returns to Him is ever only lost.

The stone in the story was cracked, and whole enough, and it went back exactly where it had been.

Nothing broken and returned to Him stays only broken.

Qurʼan

قُلْ هَلْ مِن شُرَكَائِكُم مَّن يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ ۚ قُلِ اللَّهُ يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ

Say: Is there among those you associate with Him any who begins creation and then repeats it? Say: Allah begins creation and then repeats it.

10:34 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Given identically at Name 58, which reads it for the first verb. The causative of this root stands twice in the āyah, once denied to the partners and once said of Allah; of its eighteen uses in the Qurʼan, fifteen are said of Allah.

أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا كَيْفَ يُبْدِئُ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ ۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ

Have they not seen how Allah begins creation, then repeats it? Truly that is easy for Allah.

29:19 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Given identically at Name 58. Aṭ-Ṭabarī reads the beginning as what is seen in this life — a small child, then a youth, then a grown man — and the repeating as its return after it has perished and decayed, a new creation, with Qatādah: the raising after death; he says abdaʼa and badaʼa, aʻāda and ʻāda, are two dialects with one meaning, and as-Saʻdī reads the repeating as the Resurrection too, setting beside it 30:27, below.

وَهُوَ الَّذِي يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ وَهُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْهِ

And He it is who begins creation, then repeats it, and that is even easier for Him.

30:27 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Shared with Name 58. Ahwan is divided: Ibn Kathīr gives Ibn ʻAbbās, easier for Him, and Mujāhid, the repeating easier than the beginning and the beginning easy for Him; aṭ-Ṭabarī records others reading it as easy, and ar-Rabīʻ ibn Khuthaym: nothing is hard for Him. The poem and the meditation on this Name work from the first reading, that the second shaping asks less than the first.

مِنْهَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ وَفِيهَا نُعِيدُكُمْ وَمِنْهَا نُخْرِجُكُمْ تَارَةً أُخْرَىٰ

From it We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will bring you out another time.

20:55 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The arc in three movements — created from the earth, returned into it, brought out another time — with nuʻīdukum, the causative of this root, in the middle. Here the returning is into the earth, and the bringing out is a different verb. Nūḥ says the same at 71:18: then He returns you into it, and brings you out.

كَمَا بَدَأْنَا أَوَّلَ خَلْقٍ نُّعِيدُهُ ۚ وَعْدًا عَلَيْنَا ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا فَاعِلِينَ

As We began the first creation, We will repeat it — a promise binding upon Us; indeed, We will do it.

21:104 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Shared with Name 58. The āyah opens on the Day We fold the heaven like the rolling of a scroll for the writings. The Prophet ﷺ recited it in a sermon after saying that people will be gathered to Allah barefoot, naked and uncircumcised, as al-Bukhārī 4625 records from Ibn ʻAbbās; the report is on this Name’s Ḥadīth page.

إِنَّهُ يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ لِيَجْزِيَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ بِالْقِسْطِ

Truly He begins the creation, then repeats it, that He may repay those who believed and did righteous deeds, in justice.

10:4 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Shared with Name 58. The one place the pairing names its purpose in the same sentence: He repeats the creation that He may repay those who believed and did righteous deeds, in justice.

كَمَا بَدَأَكُمْ تَعُودُونَ

As He began you, so you will return.

7:29 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Shared with Name 58. Of the fifteen times the simple verb of this root is said of people, this is the only one that is a return to Him; the other fourteen are a return to what they had left. Aṭ-Ṭabarī gives Ibn ʻAbbās: as He began you wretched and blessed, so you will be raised.

إِنَّهُ هُوَ يُبْدِئُ وَيُعِيدُ

Truly it is He who begins and repeats.

85:13 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Shared with Name 58, and the two verbs bare. Aṭ-Ṭabarī prefers Ibn ʻAbbās, He begins the punishment and repeats it, because the severe seizing stands in the āyah before; aḍ-Ḍaḥḥāk, Ibn Zayd and Ibn Kathīr read it of the creation.

قُلْ جَاءَ الْحَقُّ وَمَا يُبْدِئُ الْبَاطِلُ وَمَا يُعِيدُ

Say: The truth has come, and falsehood neither begins nor repeats.

34:49 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Shared with Name 58. This Name’s verb denied to falsehood, beside the verb of Name 58. Aṭ-Ṭabarī, with Qatādah, takes falsehood here as Iblīs, who restores no one alive after he has perished. Ibn Fāris records the Arabs saying of a man with nothing to say that he mā yubdiʼu wa-mā yuʻīd, begins no word and returns none — the same two verbs.

قَالَ خُذْهَا وَلَا تَخَفْ ۖ سَنُعِيدُهَا سِيرَتَهَا الْأُولَىٰ

He said: Take it, and do not fear; We will return it to its first state.

20:21 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The causative said of a thing, and the nearest the Qurʼan comes to the bowl of the poem for this Name: Mūsā’s staff, turned into a moving serpent, is to be returned to sīratahā l-ūlā, its first state. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: before that it had been dry wood, a staff he leaned on and beat down leaves with for his sheep, and by Allah’s command it became a serpent.

فَسَيَقُولُونَ مَن يُعِيدُنَا ۖ قُلِ الَّذِي فَطَرَكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ

Then they will say: Who will restore us? Say: The One who brought you into being the first time.

17:51 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The denial of this Name put as a question and answered with the first creation — the same argument as the ḥadīth qudsī on this Name’s Ḥadīth page, where the man who says He will not restore me as He began me is answered. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: it is said to those who denied being raised after death, who had asked whether, once bones and dust, they would be raised a new creation (17:49). The portion printed is the middle of the āyah.

كُلَّمَا أَرَادُوا أَن يَخْرُجُوا مِنْهَا أُعِيدُوا فِيهَا وَقِيلَ لَهُمْ ذُوقُوا عَذَابَ النَّارِ الَّذِي كُنتُم بِهِ تُكَذِّبُونَ

Every time they wish to come out of it, they are returned into it, and it is said to them: Taste the punishment of the Fire which you used to deny.

32:20 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The Name’s own causative as punishment: every time they want to leave the Fire, they are returned into it. The same clause, with min ghammin, from anguish, after minhā, stands at 22:22. The portion printed is the second part of the āyah.

عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمْ أَن يَرْحَمَكُمْ ۚ وَإِنْ عُدْتُمْ عُدْنَا

It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you; but if you return, We will return.

17:8 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The simple verb said of Allah, and it is a warning: if you return, We return. Aṭ-Ṭabarī reads the verse as addressed to Banū Isrāʼīl after the punishment the passage before describes. 8:19 makes the same exchange, wa-in taʻūdū naʻud; these are the only two places Allah is the subject of the simple verb. The portion printed is the opening of the āyah.

بَلْ بَدَا لَهُم مَّا كَانُوا يُخْفُونَ مِن قَبْلُ ۖ وَلَوْ رُدُّوا لَعَادُوا لِمَا نُهُوا عَنْهُ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُونَ

But no — what they used to conceal has become clear to them. And even if they were sent back, they would return to the very thing they were forbidden; and they are surely liars.

6:28 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Shared with Name 19, which reads it for what would follow a return they only wish for; here for the simple verb, in its commonest use in the Qurʼan. Standing before the Fire, the deniers wish to be sent back to the world; the reply is that if they were, they would return to the very thing they had been forbidden. Fourteen of the fifteen times the verb is said of people are a return of this kind — to usury at 2:275, to the old religion at 7:88 and 14:13, to the like of a slander at 24:17, to what was forbidden at 58:8.

إِنَّ الَّذِي فَرَضَ عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لَرَادُّكَ إِلَىٰ مَعَادٍ ۚ قُلْ رَبِّي أَعْلَمُ مَن جَاءَ بِالْهُدَىٰ وَمَنْ هُوَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ

Truly the One who made the Qurʼan binding on you will bring you back to a place of return. Say: My Lord knows best who has brought guidance and who is in clear error.

28:85 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The noun maʻād, and the one place it stands: a promise to the Prophet ﷺ that he will be brought back. The place is disputed. Al-Bukhārī 4773 gives Ibn ʻAbbās: to Makkah. Ibn Kathīr gives the Day of Resurrection, when he will be asked about what he was charged to convey. Ibn Fāris gives maʻād as anything to which is the going, and the Hereafter as people’s maʻād.

وَالْقَمَرَ قَدَّرْنَاهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتَّىٰ عَادَ كَالْعُرْجُونِ الْقَدِيمِ

And the moon — We have measured for it stations, until it returns like the old date-stalk.

36:39 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The simple verb said of a created thing, and of a cycle. Ibn Kathīr: the moon rises thin, grows to its full on the fourteenth night, then wanes until it is like the old date-stalk — the dried, bent base of a date cluster, for which he gives Ibn ʻAbbās and Mujāhid — and Allah shows it new at the start of the next month. The seasons that come back along the same lines in the meditation on this Name have their Qurʼanic image here.

Dua

بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ أَمُوتُ وَأَحْيَا

In Your name, O Allah, I die and I live.

al-Bukhārī 6324 · ṣaḥīḥ

Shared with Names 58 and 61. From Ḥudhayfah: the Prophet ﷺ said this on lying down, and on waking, praise be to Allah who gave us life after He had caused us to die, and to Him is the rising. No transmitted supplication in the six editions addresses Allah as al-Muʻīd; the Name-form stands in them only in the two lists, at at-Tirmidhī 3507 and Ibn Mājah 3861.

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي عَافَانِي فِي جَسَدِي وَرَدَّ عَلَيَّ رُوحِي وَأَذِنَ لِي بِذِكْرِهِ

Praise belongs to Allah, who gave me well-being in my body, returned my soul to me, and permitted me to remember Him.

at-Tirmidhī 3401 · ḥasan (at-Tirmidhī’s own verdict; al-Albānī; Aḥmad Shākir; Bashshār ʻAwwād Maʻrūf); ḍaʻīf (Darussalam)

From Abū Hurayrah: said on waking, at the end of a report that first teaches what to say on lying down — if You hold my soul, have mercy on it, and if You send it back, guard it. The clause that places it here is radda ʻalayya rūḥī, He gave my soul back to me: the verb is r-d-d, not this root, and the giving back is this Name’s sense. At-Tirmidhī calls it ḥasan and notes reports in the chapter from Jābir and ʻĀʼishah; al-Albānī, Aḥmad Shākir and Bashshār ʻAwwād grade it ḥasan, and Darussalam ḍaʻīf.

Hadith

قَالَ اللَّهُ كَذَّبَنِي ابْنُ آدَمَ وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُ ذَٰلِكَ … فَأَمَّا تَكْذِيبُهُ إِيَّايَ فَقَوْلُهُ لَن يُعِيدَنِي كَمَا بَدَأَنِي وَلَيْسَ أَوَّلُ الْخَلْقِ بِأَهْوَنَ عَلَيَّ مِنْ إِعَادَتِهِ

Allah said: The son of Adam has denied Me, and he had no right to … As for his denial of Me, it is his saying: He will not restore me as He originated me — yet the first creation is no easier for Me than repeating it.

al-Bukhārī 4974 · ṣaḥīḥ (ḥadīth qudsī)

From Abū Hurayrah, a ḥadīth qudsī, given identically at Name 58. The denial answered is this Name’s: lan yuʻīdanī kamā badaʼanī, He will not restore me as He began me — and the answer is from the first creation, which is no easier for Me than its restoring. 17:51 on this Name’s Qurʼan page puts the same denial as a question and gives the same answer. The ellipsis marks the omitted second charge, and he reviled Me, which the report answers from Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ, the portion Name 67 carries. Al-Bukhārī publishes no grade row, so the verdict is bare of graders.

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّكُمْ مَحْشُورُونَ إِلَى اللَّهِ حُفَاةً عُرَاةً غُرْلًا ثُمَّ قَالَ كَمَا بَدَأْنَا أَوَّلَ خَلْقٍ نُعِيدُهُ وَعْدًا عَلَيْنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا فَاعِلِينَ

O people, you will be gathered to Allah barefoot, naked, and uncircumcised. Then he said: As We began the first creation, We will repeat it — a promise binding upon Us; indeed, We will do it.

al-Bukhārī 4625 · ṣaḥīḥ

From Ibn ʻAbbās: the Prophet ﷺ stood to preach, told the people they would be gathered to Allah barefoot, naked and uncircumcised, and recited 21:104, the verse on this Name’s Qurʼan page, setting the gathering beside the first creation. The report goes on: the first of creation to be clothed on the Day of Resurrection is Ibrāhīm. Al-Bukhārī 3349 has it through the same Saʻīd ibn Jubayr with then he recited for then he said; Muslim 2860a gives the report in other words, you will meet Allah on foot, barefoot, naked and uncircumcised, with no verse, and Muslim’s next telling, through the same Saʻīd ibn Jubayr, has the verse, with tuḥsharūna for maḥshūrūna. Al-Bukhārī publishes no grade row, so the verdict is bare.

Study Notes

Verified — derived; paired with Al-Mubdiʼ

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CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: sixteen āyāt. Carried before: 10:34 and 29:19, SHARED WITH NAME 58 as portion shares; 30:27 and 21:104, SHARED WITH NAME 58 as exact shares; and 20:55, the arc into the earth and out of it. Appended in this pass, four SHARED WITH NAME 58 as exact shares — 10:4, the purpose of the repeating; 7:29, the one return of people to Him; 85:13, the two verbs bare; 34:49, both verbs denied to falsehood — one SHARED WITH NAME 19 as an exact share, 6:28, were they sent back they would return to what they were forbidden — and six carried at no other Name: 20:21, Mūsā’s staff returned to its first state; 17:51, who will restore us, answered with the first creation; 32:20, returned into the Fire whenever they try to leave; 17:8, if you return We return; 28:85, maʻād, the one place the noun stands; and 36:39, the moon that returns like the old date-stalk. The distinct verse count in Notes on This Edition moves from 493 to 499.

NAMED HERE BUT NOT CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 7:89, carried at Name 18; 27:64 and 30:11, carried at Name 58; 71:18, 17:69, 22:22, 18:20, 8:19, 2:275, 7:88, 8:38, 14:13, 23:107, 24:17, 58:3, 58:8, 17:49 and 44:15, all carried at NO Name; 5:95, carried at Name 81; 5:114, carried at Name 73.

CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE COUNT: the entry had none. The root is hollow and its wāw drops in ʻudtum and ʻudnā, so the sweep on the Tanzil text is ʻayn, an optional weak letter and dāl: six hundred and seventy words, THIRTY-EIGHT of them the root (thirty-nine: ʻāʼidūn at 44:15, the active participle, falls outside the window once its hamzah seat is folded: corrected in build 180). The worst look-alike is ʻĀd, the people of Hūd, spelled exactly like ʻāda, he returned, twenty-four times; the rest are b-ʻ-d, w-ʻ-d, ʻ-d-w, ʻ-d-d, ʻ-d-l, q-ʻ-d and ṣ-ʻ-d, and ʻādin at 2:173, 6:145 and 16:115, which is ʻ-d-w (and ʻ-d-n, r-ʻ-d, s-ʻ-d and ʻ-d-s, sixteen words the list left out: corrected in build 180).

CLASSIFIED BY FORM AND BY WHAT IT IS SAID OF: THE CAUSATIVE, the Name’s own verb, stands eighteen times, and FIFTEEN ARE OF ALLAH — but they are not all restoration: the creation repeated eight times, counting 85:13, which aṭ-Ṭabarī reads of the punishment, the deniers’ who will restore us answered once, returned into the earth twice, into the sea once, the staff restored once, and RETURNED INTO THE FIRE TWICE, at 22:22 and 32:20. The other three deny it to the partners and to falsehood, or give it to the townspeople who would force the youths of the Cave back into their religion. THE SIMPLE VERB, to go back, stands eighteen times: twice of Allah, and both are a warning, if you return We return; once of the moon; and FIFTEEN TIMES OF PEOPLE, OF WHICH FOURTEEN ARE A RETURN TO WHAT THEY HAD LEFT — usury, a forbidden act, the old religion, a slander, evil after the Fire. Only 7:29 is the return to Him. So the root the Name comes from is, in the Qurʼan, mostly about people going back to what they should have left and about Allah bringing back what He made. The page had carried five āyāt, and all five were the creation brought back. FOUND / CORRECTED / REMOVED, AS UNVERIFIED: THE DUʻĀʼ NOTE ON AT-TIRMIDHĪ 3401 CONTRADICTED ITS OWN GRADE FIELD, saying first that Darussalam grades the report ṣaḥīḥ and then that Darussalam lowers it to ḍaʻīf. The dataset gives Darussalam ḍaʻīf and al-Albānī, Aḥmad Shākir and Bashshār ʻAwwād ḥasan, and at-Tirmidhī’s own text says ḥasan; the note now says that once. The same note carried the chain, the bāb, an orthography remark and a remark that the field had been left empty; all cleared. The note on al-Bukhārī 6324 called it the one transmitted text that rehearses the pattern nightly, a superlative nothing read measures; struck. THE NOTES ON 20:55 AND 21:104 SAID EACH WAS A SUPPORTING WITNESS AND NOT A VERSE THE CLASSICAL COMMENTATORS CITE FIRST FOR THIS NAME — an unattributed claim about the commentators, STRUCK AS UNCHECKED. The 21:104 note said the Prophet ﷺ recited the verse citing it as proof of bodily resurrection, per Ibn Kathīr from Ibn ʻAbbās; Ibn Kathīr gives the report and says both Ṣaḥīḥs have it, and al-Bukhārī 4625, read here, has the Prophet ﷺ say that people will be gathered barefoot, naked and uncircumcised and then recite the verse — the note now says exactly that, and the report is on the Ḥadīth page. THE 29:19 NOTE SAID YASĪR IS ADDRESSED TO THE REPEATING RATHER THAN THE BEGINNING; aṭ-Ṭabarī reads both verbs of what is seen in this life (the beginning; the repeating he reads as the raising after death, with Qatādah: corrected in build 180) and as-Saʻdī reads the repeating as the Resurrection, and neither says what the note said; replaced. The desc glossed the root as to come back to a thing after leaving it, attributed to no one; IBN FĀRIS, READ IN HIS OWN TEXT, GIVES TWO ORIGINS — doing a matter a second time, with al-Khalīl’s badaʼa thumma ʻāda, and a kind of wood — and names Allah al-Mubdiʼ al-Muʻīd. The ref carried Jāmiʻ at-Tirmidhī 3507 and Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4974 against house form.

IN THE STORY: eleven families left in the second year, having concluded that eleven years of their lives was too much to spend — in the second year no one knew the work would take eleven years; the sentence now says the years it would take. MEDS 59 and POEMS 59 were read and not changed; the bowl’s shards that remember their curve are figure.

READ: the Tanzil text for all six hundred and seventy returns of the sweep, and every ʻād in its verse. Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lughah at ʻ-w-d, IN HIS OWN TEXT, in the Shamela transcription of the Hārūn edition, volume four, the page on which the entry begins; the wood origin he announces there was not read on the following page. Aṭ-Ṭabarī at 20:21, 17:51, 28:85, 17:8, 6:28, 29:19 and 85:13 (and at 7:29, 30:27, 34:49 and 44:15, which the notes and the ref cite: corrected in build 180); Ibn Kathīr at 21:104, 28:85, 36:39, 20:21 and 30:27 (and at 85:13: corrected in build 180); as-Saʻdī at 29:19 — through the tafsir dataset. Letter by letter with their grade rows: al-Bukhārī 4974, 6324, 4625, 3349 and 4773; Muslim 2860a; at-Tirmidhī 3401 and 3507; Ibn Mājah 3861; all six editions swept for the Name-form, which stands only in the two lists.

NOT READ: ar-Rāghib, Lisān al-ʻArab and az-Zamakhsharī for this root; al-Ghazālī’s al-Maqṣad al-Asnā, still not reached.

OPEN: the statement that no transmitted supplication addresses al-Muʻīd rests on a sweep of the six editions for the Name-form. What maʻād names at 28:85, Makkah or the Day of Resurrection, and what ahwan means at 30:27, are recorded as divided and not settled.

COHERENCE: 10:4, 7:29, 85:13 and 34:49 are now carried at Name 58 and at this Name with the same Arabic and English, linked both ways in SHARED_LOCI, and Name 58’s Study Note says so; 6:28 is linked the same way to Name 19, and Name 19’s Study Note says so; 30:27 and 21:104 were linked in Name 58’s pass. The English of 21:104 on the Qurʼan page and inside al-Bukhārī 4625 on the Ḥadīth page is the same sentence. 17:51 and al-Bukhārī 4974 answer the same denial and each note names the other. Name 18’s NAMED list said 20:17–24 was carried at no Name; 20:21 is now here, and the list is repaired.

CORRECTED IN A LATER READING OF THIS PAGE: the desc listed the recurring feast among the senses Ibn Fāris derives from the first origin; his ʻīd is what keeps recurring of a phantom or a care, and the desc now says what keeps recurring. The 17:8 note named the addressees of 8:19 from no source read; the naming is struck.

HYGIENE AFTER NAME 61: the Qurʼan note on 10:4 said, The desc closes on it — the desc says no such thing; STRUCK AS FALSE.

AUDIT AFTER NAME 70: the 32:20 note narrated the page’s own earlier carriage (the page had carried the returning only as restoration); the sentence is removed.

AFTER NAME 81: 5:95 is now carried at Name 81, and the NAMED line says so. AFTER THE CHAT-END AUDIT OF 81–85: the grade field of at-Tirmidhī 3401 now gives every grader in the dataset’s rows, each attributed to its record (the grade survey).

AFTER NAME 86: 10:4 is now carried at Name 86 too, with the same Arabic and English, and linked exactly both ways. 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 OF NAME 58: the ref’s pointer to the caveat on Ibn Mājah 3861’s list names Name 12, Al-Bāriʼ, whose Study Note records it; Name 13 carries none.

IN BUILD 180, FROM THE PHASE 2 READING: the ref counts the root thirty-nine with ʻāʼidūn at 44:15, outside the window, and 44:15 stands on the named line; the ref’s look-alikes add ʻ-d-n, r-ʻ-d, s-ʻ-d and ʻ-d-s; the 29:19 note and the ref give aṭ-Ṭabarī the repeating as the raising after death, with Qatādah; the note on al-Bukhārī 4625 gives Muslim 2860a in its own words and Muslim’s next telling, 2860b, with the verse; the 6:28 note says what Name 19 reads the verse for; the note on al-Bukhārī 4974 names Name 67’s portion; the 32:20 note gives 22:22’s clause with min ghammin. The count, FOUND and READ lines are corrected in place above. The English of al-Bukhārī 4974’s answer is the author’s to settle (A66) and is unchanged.

BY THE AUTHOR’S DECISIONS OF 2026-09-25, IN BUILD 182: al-Bukhārī 4974’s answer reads yet the first creation is no easier for Me than repeating it (A66); MEDS 59’s two readings are kept (A67); al-Bukhārī 4625’s barefoot, naked, and uncircumcised takes Name 15’s serial comma for the same words (A23).

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