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CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 42:9, fa-llāhu huwa l-walī, a construction of exclusivity answering the question about rival protectors; 42:28, al-waliyyu l-ḥamīd, shared with Name 56 as a portion share, each Name taking its own word; 2:257, the guardianship that acts, bringing those who believe out of the darknesses into the light; 3:68, walāyah by devotion rather than lineage; and six appended in this pass, none of them carried at any other Name — 10:62, awliyāʼu llāh, the Qurʼanic ground of the report on the Ḥadīth page; 41:31, where the angels claim the word for themselves; 29:41, the spider’s house, which the desc had named and the page had never carried; 57:15, where the Fire is called your mawlā; 41:34, waliyyun ḥamīm said of a human enemy turned friend; and 47:11, which says the word of Allah and denies it to the disbelievers in one sentence. The distinct verse count in Notes on This Edition moves from 465 to 471.
NAMED HERE BUT NOT CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 17:111, carried at Name 25 and Name 37; 12:101, carried at Name 84; 2:282, carried at Name 50; 9:123, 3:122, 4:45, 4:75, 4:89, 4:119, 5:55, 6:14, 7:155, 8:34, 9:71, 16:63, 16:76, 17:33, 19:5, 19:45, 22:13, 27:49, 33:6, 34:41 and 45:19, carried at NO Name; 7:196, carried at Name 77; 6:127, carried at Name 5; 8:72, carried at Name 77.
CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE COUNT: this is the largest root taken in this stretch and the noisiest sweep in the book (among the noisiest, Name 53 having said the same of its one thousand three hundred and three: corrected in build 178) — three thousand and twenty-seven words on the substring wāw and lām, of which ulāʼika alone is a hundred and thirty-three. AND THE FIRST-FORM IMPERFECT DROPS THE WĀW, so yalūnakum at 9:123 is invisible to the sweep that finds everything else. The Name’s own singular stands forty-three times AND ONLY FOURTEEN ARE OF ALLAH; NINETEEN DENY THAT ANYONE ELSE IS A WALĪ, nine are of a creature or of Shayṭān (forty-four, 3:122 of Allah and 4:75 a walī asked of Him, so ten of a creature: corrected in build 178), and ONE DENIES A WALĪ TO ALLAH HIMSELF — 17:111, He has no walī out of weakness — which is the Name’s own word negated of Him and is carried at Name 25 and Name 37 for other reasons. The definite al-Walī stands exactly twice and both are in one sūrah. The plural stands forty-two times and only six name an alliance that is neither condemned nor denied. Mawlā stands eighteen times and twelve are of Allah; the Fire is called mawlā once. The page had carried four āyāt and all four were the Name affirmed of Allah, so none of that was on it. FOUND / CORRECTED / REMOVED, AS UNVERIFIED: the desc read the Name as the loving helper AND ATTRIBUTED THAT TO AL-GHAZĀLĪ BY NAME. His al-Maqṣad al-Asnā has never been read in his own text anywhere in this book and was not read here; the attribution is STRUCK AS UNCHECKED AND NOT AS FALSE. The desc and the ref also said that the scholars distinguish a general guardianship from a special one, and that the lexicons record two well-attested senses of the one word, the ally and the one charged with affairs. Both are the shape of attribution the house rules forbid, and the second is contradicted by the only lexicon read: IBN FĀRIS GIVES W-L-Y ONE ORIGIN AND NOT TWO — qurb, nearness — and derives the freer and the freed, the companion, the ally, the cousin, the helper and the neighbour from it, adding that whoever takes charge of another’s affair is his walī. So the division between this Name and Name 77 is the book’s reading of one root and not a lexical fact, and the senseNote now says that. The ref also carried a citation against house form, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6502.
READ: the Tanzil text word by word for all three thousand and twenty-seven returns of the sweep, and separately for the assimilated imperfect the sweep cannot reach. Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lughah at w-l-y, IN HIS OWN TEXT, in the islamweb copy of the Maqāyīs, in both the unpointed and the pointed setting. Al-Bukhārī 6502 letter by letter; the six editions searched for a supplication addressing the Name, which turned up none (Muslim 2722, with an-Nasāʼī 5458 and 5538, addresses Allah as anta waliyyuhā wa-mawlāhā and is carried at Name 22: corrected in build 178; carried here too from build 182, by the author’s decision, A64).
NOT READ: ar-Rāghib, Lisān al-ʻArab and az-Zamakhsharī were not reached for this root, and al-Ghazālī’s al-Maqṣad al-Asnā is still not read in his own text — which is now the third Name at which a claim has had to come off the page for that reason.
OPEN: the statement that no transmitted supplication addresses al-Walī by name rests on a search of the six editions for the Name-form and should go if one turns up (no such statement stands on the page, and one turned up; whether the Duʻāʼ page carries it is the author’s: corrected in build 178). The relation to Name 77 is now stated as the book’s reading rather than as a lexical division; whether the two Names should stand at all as distinct is the author’s question and is not touched. And the whole denial face of the root — nineteen places that take the office away — is carried at one Name only.
COHERENCE: 42:28 keeps its portion link to Name 56, and 41:34 puts the same two words, waliyyun ḥamīm, on a human being (the Name’s word beside ḥamīm, not ḥamīd: corrected in build 178). 12:101 keeps its link to Name 30 on the Duʻāʼ page and is carried as an āyah at Name 84. 17:111 is at Name 25 and Name 37. 10:62 is the Qurʼanic counterpart of al-Bukhārī 6502 on this page, and the note on each now says so. 57:15 puts mawlā where 47:11 puts it of Allah, and the two are printed on one page for that reason.
HYGIENE AFTER NAME 61: the Qurʼan note on 29:41 said, The desc names this verse and the page had never carried it — the desc says no such thing; STRUCK AS FALSE. 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.
ON THE AUTHOR’S DECISION, THE TWO ENTRIES OF W-L-Y: the author has settled the question this page left him. Both Names stand. They are both named in the enumeration at at-Tirmidhī 3507, which is the list this book follows, so the question was never whether one of them leaves; what was missing was the reason a reader meets two entries of one root. Each page now says it: the two are separated by form and by attestation, Al-Walī being faʻīl and said of Allah in the Book, Al-Wālī fāʻil, whose wāl stands once only, indefinite and in a denial at 13:11 on that page. Neither page claims two senses; Ibn Fāris gives one origin and both pages still say so (the 2:257 note still claimed the two senses: corrected in build 178). The clause is in the ref here, because this desc stands at 128 tokens, and the rootRelation evidenceBasis moves from cross-reference-in-sibling-entry to ref, which is where the statement now is. That was the book’s only use of that flag, and it is retired. The verse itself is not cited by number here, because a number mentioned on a page joins its named verses and this one is Name 77’s.
IN BUILD 178, FROM THE PHASE 2 READING: the ref counts the singular forty-four, gives 3:122 among the fourteen of Allah and 4:75 among the ten of a creature, reads the mawlā of 16:76 as the kin a mute man is a burden on, names both enumerations and writes Allah Himself. The senseNote places the distinguishing statement in this ref. The 2:257 note gives the root one origin and no longer claims two senses; the 42:9 note writes fa-llāhu; the 10:62 note gives 33:6 its allies among the believers and 8:34 its two readings, and no longer narrates the page; the 29:41 note loses a verb the six good uses do not take; the 57:15 note gives 16:76 as aṭ-Ṭabarī reads it; the 41:34 note sets the Name’s word beside ḥamīm and counts ten of forty-four; the 47:11 note and the Ḥadīth note count forty-four; the Duʻāʼ note writes anta waliyyī. The count, the READ and OPEN lines, the coherence line and the named line are corrected in place above, and 3:122 stands on the named line.
BY THE AUTHOR’S DECISIONS OF 2026-09-25, IN BUILD 182: Muslim 2722 is carried on the Duʻāʼ page as a share of Name 22’s record, with its Arabic, English, source and grade, linked both ways, for its address, anta waliyyuhā wa-mawlāhā; MEDS 55 reads not even as the boy in the story was, on the mornings before anyone came to stand with him (A64).