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الرزاق

The Provider

Ar-Razzāq

The bakery at dusk — bread going out, flour arriving.

Meaning

From r-z-q, whose root is a giving made at its due time, then any giving; rizq is whatever a creature draws benefit from. Ar-Razzāq is the intensive: He provides for all creation, provision after provision, created the provisions and brings each creature its own. Provision is of two kinds: for bodies, as food, and for hearts, as knowledge. The Name stands once in the Qurʼan, straight after He declares that He wants no provision from those He made to worship Him. It borders Al-Wahhāb, the gift that seeks no return, and Al-Muqīt, the sustaining portion. The Qurʼan tells people to provide for those in their care, yet none provides as He does. The Name asks the servant to rely on Him, to seek provision lawfully and with composure, and to give thanks.

Root r-z-q — a giving made at its time, then any giving; what a creature draws benefit from

Qurʼan 51:58, inna llāha huwa r-razzāqu dhū l-quwwati l-matīn, is the one occurrence of the Name, answering 51:56–57: I created jinn and humankind only to worship Me; I want no provision from them, nor do I want them to feed Me. Computed from the Tanzil text, r-z-q gives 123 words in 109 verses: ar-razzāq once; khayru r-rāziqīn five times (5:114, 22:58, 23:72, 34:39, 62:11); and bi-rāziqīn once, of people (15:20), while 4:5 and 4:8 tell people to provide for others from wealth. Ibn Fāris, as quoted in later works: a single root for a giving made at its time, then extended to what is not timed; rizq is the gift of Allah, and in the dialect of Azd Shanūʼah it means thanks, citing 56:82. Lisān al-ʻArab: ar-Rāziq and ar-Razzāq describe Allah, who created provisions, gave creatures theirs and brought them to them, faʻʻāl being intensive; provisions are outward, for bodies, as food, and inward, for hearts and souls, as knowledge; those of the children of Adam are written and reach them. Al-Khaṭṭābī, as al-Bayhaqī reports him: the One who guarantees provision and sustains every soul with its food; al-Ḥalīmī, likewise in al-Bayhaqī: provision after provision. Aṭ-Ṭabarī on 51:58: the Provider of His creation, who guarantees their sustenance. Al-Qurṭubī on 51:57: rather I am the Provider and the Giver, and he reports the reading ar-rāziq from Ibn Muḥayṣin and others. Ibn ʻĀshūr: ar-Razzāq, the One of many provisions, covering here wealth and food, the verse giving the reason He wants nothing from them. In the Prophet’s ﷺ own words, at-Tirmidhī 1314 has ar-Razzāq, and Abū Dāwūd 3451 and Ibn Mājah 2200 ar-Rāziq. Abū Dāwūd 3993 gives Ibn Masʻūd’s first-person reading of 51:58, which is not the recited text.

Story

A young man named Emir was ruled by the fear of running out. He counted his coins each night, ate less than he needed so as to save, and trusted no tomorrow to feed him. The more he hoarded, the more afraid he grew.

He had his reasons. He had been eleven the year the wells failed, and had watched his mother divide a loaf into portions that got smaller for nine days running, and had decided somewhere in there, without ever putting it into words, that he would not again live in a house where the bread was being measured.

He took work with an old baker named Saleh, meaning only to earn and to save. But Saleh baffled him. Every evening the old man gave the day’s unsold bread to the hungry at his door, keeping nothing back, and every morning there was flour enough to bake again. “You give away your own profit,” Emir protested. “How are you not ruined?” Saleh only smiled. “In forty years this oven has never gone cold. I only bake.”

There was a week the flour did not come at all. Saleh divided what little remained into smaller loaves still and set them at the door as always, and Emir stood behind him counting them out, sick with it. They went thinner that week than either of them liked. Saleh baked on exactly as he always had, as though there were nothing in it out of the ordinary, and by the following week the ordinary delivery had resumed, and no one but Emir seemed to think the gap had been worth noticing at all.

Slowly, watching bread go out the door and flour arrive at it, season upon season, Emir felt his fist begin to unclench. He started to eat his fill. He began, now and then, to give. Years later, when he had an oven of his own, he found that the one thing he could not bring himself to do was count the loaves going out the door.

Poem

Every morning, a bird leaves the nest with an empty stomach
and no plan beyond the first branch in reach.

It does not know where the next seed is.
It has never known, not once, not on any morning of its life —
and by evening, it is fed.

Not because it stored provisions the night before.
Not because it calculated the risk and hedged against it.
It flew out on nothing but the leaving,
trusting the One who sends what it has not yet found.

Somewhere tonight, a table is set for a family
that had no idea, this morning, where dinner would come from —
and dinner came anyway, through a door they hadn’t planned on,
carried by a hand they hadn’t expected.

This is not luck, repeating itself by accident, forever.
Ar-Razzāq is the reason provision keeps arriving
by roads no one could have mapped in advance —
the unplanned door, the unexpected hand,
the empty nest, filled again,
and a supply no morning has ever found short.

Reflection

The Portion Already Written

You have never once fed yourself. You have chewed — that much was yours — but the wheat stood in someone else’s field, under rain you did not schedule, was carried by strangers, priced by forces you have never met, and turned into you by a chemistry no one consulted you about. The water you drink, the Qurʼan asks — is it you who sent it down from the clouds? Behind every meal you have ever eaten stands a supply line exactly one link of which you held.

Ar-Razzāq is the Provider — and the Name’s single appearance in the Qurʼan comes straight after a disclaimer: I want no provision from them, He says of the jinn and humankind He made to worship Him, nor do I want them to feed Me. The only Provider who has never been provided for; provision backed, the verse continues, by strength that cannot be strained. Everything that eats is on His ledger — the creature that cannot carry its own supplies, the child not yet born whose portion is already written.

This is why the teaching about earning sounds so strange to modern ears. If you were to rely on Allah as He should be relied upon, the Prophet ﷺ said in a report from ʻUmar, He would provide for you as He provides for the birds: they go out hungry in the morning and return full in the evening — and the birds in the likeness fly out; they do not wait in the nest. And be seemly in seeking, he said in a report from Jābir, for no soul will die until it has received its provision in full. Nothing forbidden can add to your written share; no rival can eat what was assigned to you. The panic that makes people trample, hoard, and cut corners is not ambition. It is arithmetic done without the ledger’s Owner.

And here is the correction to a common kindness. The Qurʼan does tell people to provide for those in their care, and it calls Allah the best of providers, which leaves lesser providers standing; but no one provides the way this Name provides. Not for your children, not for yourself. What you can be is a door — the one link in someone else’s supply line that was appointed to be you. Carry what is put in your hands to where it was already going. The bread was never yours; the errand was.

He wrote the portion before He made the hands that worry over it.

Qurʼan

إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينُ

Truly Allah is the Provider, Possessor of strength, the Firm.

51:58 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The one occurrence of the Name, closing the passage that opens at 51:56. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: the Provider of His creation, who guarantees their sustenance, the Possessor of strength, the Firm. Ibn ʻĀshūr reads it as the reason for 51:57: He is free of all need, so He does not create in order to gain anything; ar-Razzāq, the One of many provisions, covers here both wealth and food. Al-Qurṭubī reports the reading ar-rāziq from Ibn Muḥayṣin and others.

وَمَا مِن دَابَّةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا عَلَى اللَّهِ رِزْقُهَا وَيَعْلَمُ مُسْتَقَرَّهَا وَمُسْتَوْدَعَهَا ۚ كُلٌّ فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ

There is no creature on the earth but its provision rests upon Allah; He knows its dwelling place and its resting place. All is in a clear record.

11:6 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Every dābbah, whatever moves on the earth. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: the provision that reaches it is from Allah, who guarantees it — its food, its nourishment and what it lives by. Ibn Kathīr: He guarantees the provisions of all creatures, small and large, of sea and land; Ibn ʻAbbās reads mustaqarr as where it shelters and mustawdaʻ as where it dies, and Mujāhid as the womb and the loins.

وَإِذَا رَأَوْا تِجَارَةً أَوْ لَهْوًا انفَضُّوا إِلَيْهَا وَتَرَكُوكَ قَائِمًا ۚ قُلْ مَا عِندَ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِّنَ اللَّهْوِ وَمِنَ التِّجَارَةِ ۚ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرُ الرَّازِقِينَ

And when they saw trade or amusement, they broke away to it and left you standing. Say: What is with Allah is better than amusement and than trade, and Allah is the best of providers.

62:11 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Jābir reports that a caravan reached Madinah on a Friday while the Prophet ﷺ was giving the sermon standing, and all but twelve men went out to it (Muslim 863a); al-Bukhārī 936 has while we were praying. Aṭ-Ṭabarī, from Abū Mālik, names the trade as oil brought from Syria by Diḥyah ibn Khalīfah. Ibn Kathīr: the best of providers for one who relies on Him and seeks provision in its time. The phrase khayru r-rāziqīn stands five times in the Qurʼan.

أَفَرَأَيْتُمُ الْمَاءَ الَّذِي تَشْرَبُونَ ۝ أَأَنتُمْ أَنزَلْتُمُوهُ مِنَ الْمُزْنِ أَمْ نَحْنُ الْمُنزِلُونَ

Have you considered the water that you drink? Is it you who sent it down from the clouds, or is it We who send it down?

56:68–69 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Part of the sūrah’s sequence of questions on seed, water and fire. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: did you bring it down from the clouds above you to the ground, or do We? Mujāhid, in aṭ-Ṭabarī, reads al-muzn as the clouds. Ibn Kathīr joins the next verse: had He willed He would have made it bitter, so why do you not give thanks for the rain sent down sweet? The verse does not use the Name’s root, but the Qurʼan calls what Allah sends down from the sky provision at 45:5.

مَا أُرِيدُ مِنْهُم مِّن رِّزْقٍ وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَن يُطْعِمُونِ

I want no provision from them, nor do I want them to feed Me.

51:57 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The verse the Name answers. Al-Qurṭubī: I want no provision from them; rather I am the Provider and the Giver. He reports Ibn ʻAbbās and Abū l-Jawzāʼ: I do not want them to provide for themselves or feed themselves; and another reading: I do not want them to provide for My servants or feed them. Al-Baghawī says He ascribes the feeding to Himself because to feed those in someone’s care is to feed him, citing the ḥadīth, I asked you for food and you did not feed Me (Muslim 2569).

وَكَأَيِّن مِّن دَابَّةٍ لَّا تَحْمِلُ رِزْقَهَا اللَّهُ يَرْزُقُهَا وَإِيَّاكُمْ ۚ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ

And how many a creature does not carry its own provision! Allah provides for it and for you, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

29:60 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Aṭ-Ṭabarī reads it as said to believers told to emigrate: do not fear poverty, for many a creature, unable, does not lift its food today for tomorrow, and Allah provides for it and for you, day by day. Ibn Kathīr: provision is not tied to one land; Allah brings each creature what suits it in its weakness, even the ant in the ground, the bird in the air and the fish in the water, and he joins the verse to 11:6.

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ ۚ هَلْ مِنْ خَالِقٍ غَيْرُ اللَّهِ يَرْزُقُكُم مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۚ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ فَأَنَّىٰ تُؤْفَكُونَ

O people, remember the favour of Allah upon you. Is there any creator other than Allah who provides for you from the sky and the earth? There is no god but He — so how are you turned away?

35:3 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Aṭ-Ṭabarī reads it as addressed to the idolaters of Quraysh: is there any creator besides the Originator of the heavens and the earth, in whose hand are the keys of your provisions and their locks? The creating and the providing are asked of in one question, and the verse answers both with the denial of any other god.

Dua

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ عِلْمًا نَافِعًا وَرِزْقًا طَيِّبًا وَعَمَلًا مُتَقَبَّلًا

O Allah, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, good provision and accepted deeds.

Ibn Mājah 925 · ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī); ḍaʻīf (Darussalam)

From Umm Salamah: what the Prophet ﷺ said after the dawn prayer, as he gave the salām. It asks for provision described as ṭayyib, good and wholesome, beside beneficial knowledge and accepted deeds. Its chain names Umm Salamah’s client without giving his name, and the graders divide.

اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَارْحَمْنِي وَاهْدِنِي وَارْزُقْنِي

O Allah, forgive me, have mercy on me, guide me and provide for me.

Muslim 2697a · ṣaḥīḥ

From the father of Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʻī: the Prophet ﷺ taught these words to whoever entered Islam. It uses the Name’s verb, wa-rzuqnī, not the Name. In 2697b he first teaches the prayer and adds wa-ʻāfinī; in 2697c, answering a man who asked what to say when he asks his Lord, he gives forgive me, have mercy on me, keep me well and provide for me, gathering his fingers except the thumb: these gather for you your world and your Hereafter.

اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَا أَنزِلْ عَلَيْنَا مَائِدَةً مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ تَكُونُ لَنَا عِيدًا لِّأَوَّلِنَا وَآخِرِنَا وَآيَةً مِّنكَ ۖ وَارْزُقْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الرَّازِقِينَ

O Allah, our Lord, send down to us a table spread from the sky, to be a festival for the first of us and the last of us, and a sign from You; and provide for us, for You are the best of providers.

Qurʼan 5:114

ʻĪsā’s prayer for the table his disciples asked for, closing on the Name’s participle in the plural, khayru r-rāziqīn, not the Name itself. Ibn Kathīr: provide for us from Yourself a provision easy to receive, without burden or toil.

Hadith

إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الْمُسَعِّرُ الْقَابِضُ الْبَاسِطُ الرَّزَّاقُ وَإِنِّي لَأَرْجُو أَنْ أَلْقَى رَبِّي وَلَيْسَ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ يَطْلُبُنِي بِمَظْلَمَةٍ فِي دَمٍ وَلَا مَالٍ

Truly Allah is the One who sets prices, the Restrainer, the Extender, the Provider; and I hope to meet my Lord with none of you seeking redress from me for a wrong in blood or in property.

at-Tirmidhī 1314 · ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ (at-Tirmidhī; Bashshār ʻAwwād Maʻrūf); ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī; Aḥmad Shākir); isnād ṣaḥīḥ (Darussalam)

From Anas: prices rose in the time of the Prophet ﷺ, and people asked him to fix them. At-Tirmidhī’s wording names the Name itself, ar-Razzāq; Abū Dāwūd 3451, carried at Name 20, and Ibn Mājah 2200, carried at Name 21, have ar-Rāziq, all from Ḥammād ibn Salamah. He declined to set the price, saying he hoped to meet his Lord with no one owed redress for a wrong in blood or property.

أَقْرَأَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنِّي أَنَا الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينُ

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ taught me to recite: Indeed I am the Provider, Possessor of strength, the Firm.

Abū Dāwūd 3993 · ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī; Muḥammad Muḥyī ad-Dīn ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd; Darussalam)

From ʻAbdullāh ibn Masʻūd. The recited text of 51:58, the mass-transmitted reading, is inna llāha huwa r-razzāq; the first person here is Ibn Masʻūd’s reading. Al-Mubārakfūrī, on at-Tirmidhī 2940, where at-Tirmidhī calls the report ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ, names it Ibn Masʻūd’s reading against the mass-transmitted one, and Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ is reported to judge its chain sound and the reading shādhdh — reported rather than checked, since the six editions list no verdict of his for this report, and his name has accordingly come out of the grade field, where it stood in place of Muḥammad Muḥyī ad-Dīn ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, whom they do list. The report is now carried at Name 54 as well, for al-Matīn. It is carried for the Name spoken in the first person, not as a text to recite. Ibn Kathīr cites it under 51:58.

لَوْ أَنَّكُمْ تَوَكَّلْتُمْ عَلَى اللَّهِ حَقَّ تَوَكُّلِهِ لَرَزَقَكُمْ كَمَا يَرْزُقُ الطَّيْرَ تَغْدُو خِمَاصًا وَتَرُوحُ بِطَانًا

If you were to rely on Allah as He should be relied upon, He would provide for you as He provides for the birds: they go out hungry in the morning and return full in the evening.

Ibn Mājah 4164 · ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī); ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ (Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ); ḥasan (Darussalam)

From ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, through Ibn Lahīʻah from ʻAbdullāh ibn Hubayrah. At-Tirmidhī 2344, carried at Names 39 and 52, comes through Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ and Bakr ibn ʻAmr to the same ʻAbdullāh ibn Hubayrah and on the same line to ʻUmar, with the passive la-ruziqtum; at-Tirmidhī calls it ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ and knows it only by that route. Here the verb has Allah as its subject, la-razaqakum. In the likeness the birds go out in the morning and come back in the evening.

أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَأَجْمِلُوا فِي الطَّلَبِ فَإِنَّ نَفْسًا لَنْ تَمُوتَ حَتَّى تَسْتَوْفِيَ رِزْقَهَا وَإِنْ أَبْطَأَ عَنْهَا فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَأَجْمِلُوا فِي الطَّلَبِ خُذُوا مَا حَلَّ وَدَعُوا مَا حَرُمَ

O people, fear Allah and be seemly in seeking, for no soul will die until it has received its provision in full, even if it is slow to reach it. So fear Allah and be seemly in seeking: take what is lawful and leave what is forbidden.

Ibn Mājah 2144 · ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī; Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ; Darussalam)

From Jābir ibn ʻAbdillāh. The provision owed to a soul reaches it before its death however late it comes, and so the seeking is to be done with composure, taking the lawful and leaving the forbidden.

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CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: SEVEN ayat. 51:58, the one occurrence of the Name, SHARED WITH NAME 54, with aṭ-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʻĀshūr and the reading ar-rāziq reported by al-Qurṭubī; 11:6, SHARED WITH NAME 39, with aṭ-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, Ibn ʻAbbās and Mujāhid; 62:11, now quoted in full, with Muslim 863a, al-Bukhārī 936, aṭ-Ṭabarī from Abū Mālik and Ibn Kathīr; 56:68–69, with aṭ-Ṭabarī, Mujāhid and Ibn Kathīr; 51:57, SHARED WITH NAME 54, with al-Qurṭubī, Ibn ʻAbbās, Abū l-Jawzāʼ and al-Baghawī; and, ADDED, 29:60, with aṭ-Ṭabarī and Ibn Kathīr, and 35:3, with aṭ-Ṭabarī — the other four at this Name only (corrected in build 149). The two are appended, sub-items 0 to 4 keep their positions, and the distinct Qurʼan-page verse count in Notes on This Edition moves from 344 to 346.

NAMED HERE BUT NOT CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 51:56, 22:58, 23:72, 15:20, 4:5, 4:8, 56:82 and 45:5, all carried at NO Name; 34:39, carried at Name 21; 5:114, carried at Name 73, and standing also on this Name’s supplication page; ADDED AT THE CHAT-END AUDIT OF 71–75, the entry names these verses, which this note did not list: 51:56–57, carried at Name 17 and Name 54, which print the second of the two;

CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE COUNTS: computed from the Tanzil text, r-z-q gives 123 words in 109 verses; ar-razzāq stands once; khayru r-rāziqīn five times; bi-rāziqīn once, of people, at 15:20.

CORRECTED, THE ROOT: the gloss had glossBasis desc and no lexicon. Ibn Fāris, read only as quoted in later works, gives a single root for a giving made at its time; Lisān al-ʻArab, read on the islamweb transcription, gives provision as outward for bodies and inward for hearts. The gloss follows both, with glossBasis ref, and a senseNote is added.

CORRECTED, THE DESC: it said no creature carries its own provision, when 29:60 says many a creature does not; its promise that trust cures anxiety about scarcity, its stock images of a lost opportunity and a stranger, and its contrast of need answered with Al-Wahhāb are removed; it now gives the root, the two kinds of provision after Lisān, the neighbouring Names, and the Qurʼan’s own use of providing for people.

THE REF: its reading of 51:58 as provision that cannot be interrupted, and of the root as covering breath and every unearned means, had no source and are removed; it now gives the counts, Ibn Fāris, Lisān, al-Khaṭṭābī and al-Ḥalīmī — both read only as al-Bayhaqī reports them, in a transcription at knowingallah.com — aṭ-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭubī and Ibn ʻĀshūr.

CORRECTED, THE QURʼAN NOTES: 51:58’s note, provision that cannot be interrupted, had no source; 11:6’s had none; 62:11’s said the people broke off from prayer, while Muslim 863a places it during the Friday sermon and al-Bukhārī 936 has while we were praying, both now stated; 56:68–69’s note carried the process remark confirmed against Quran.com, now removed; 51:57’s said it was quoted in this Name’s reflection, a production remark, now replaced by the commentators. THREE duʻāʼ. Ibn Mājah 925, SHARED WITH NAME 92, CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE GRADE: it read ṣaḥīḥ (Darussalam), but the dataset records ṣaḥīḥ from al-Albānī and ḍaʻīf from Zubair ʻAlī Zaʼī, which Darussalam shows; the grade now reads ṣaḥīḥ (al-Albānī); ḍaʻīf (Darussalam), changed identically at Name 92, whose source string is unchanged.

ADDED: Muslim 2697a, the Name’s verb, with the wording of 2697b and 2697c in the note, carried at no other Name; and Qurʼan 5:114, khayru r-rāziqīn, with Ibn Kathīr, carried at no other Name. No transmitted supplication calling on the Name itself was located for this pass. FOUR tracked aḥādīth.

ADDED FIRST: at-Tirmidhī 1314, from Anas, where the Prophet ﷺ names Allah ar-Razzāq, SHARED WITH NAME 20, which carries the same report as Abū Dāwūd 3451 with ar-Rāziq, and with Name 21, which carries it as Ibn Mājah 2200; SHARED_LOCI now has reciprocal entries at 17 and 20; the dataset grades are at-Tirmidhī’s ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ, ṣaḥīḥ from al-Albānī and Aḥmad Shākir, and isnād ṣaḥīḥ from Darussalam.

ADDED: Abū Dāwūd 3993, Ibn Masʻūd’s first-person reading of 51:58, SHARED WITH NAME 54 (corrected in build 149), graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī and Darussalam; Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ’s judgment that its chain is sound and the reading shādhdh was read in a transcription at surahquran.com, and al-Mubārakfūrī’s remark in the islamweb text of Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī. Ibn Mājah 4164, carried at this Name only, CORRECTED: it and Name 39’s entry said at-Tirmidhī 2344 comes by a different chain; the dataset shows both routes meet at ʻAbdullāh ibn Hubayrah and run on the same line to ʻUmar, which the note now states, and Name 39’s note and Study Note are corrected to match; its grade now adds Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ’s ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ; the process remark checked against the collection word for word is removed. Ibn Mājah 2144, carried at this Name only, CORRECTED: its grade said ṣaḥīḥ per Sunnah.com/Darussalam, though not unanimous, and the note set out a tadlīs objection that some critics weigh against it without naming any critic; the dataset records ṣaḥīḥ from al-Albānī, Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ and Darussalam, which the grade now gives, and the unattributed objection and the process remark confirmed against Sunnah.com are removed.

MEDS 17: the old verse becomes the Qurʼan; the Name’s placement is no longer called deliberate and 51:56 is named; the reports on the birds and on seeking are now related as the Prophet’s ﷺ, with their Companions; the claim that no one is ever anyone’s provider, which 4:5 and 15:20 contradict, now says no one provides the way this Name provides; and the link that happened to be you, which spoke of chance, is now appointed.

POEMS 17: its last line, a hand that has never come up empty, could be read of Allah as a searching hand, and is replaced. CH 17 checked and unchanged.

OPEN: Names 39 and 52 give at-Tirmidhī 2344’s Darussalam grade as ḥasan where the dataset reads isnād ḥasan; left for those passes, and resolved since, both reading isnād ḥasan (Darussalam); this line stood after the coherence record and is moved before it in build 149.

COHERENCE: 35:3 is removed from Name 11’s list of verses carried at no Name.

GLOSSARY: Rizq and Shādhdh added.

AUDIT AFTER NAME 65: the Qurʼan link for 11:6 to Name 39 was of the kind the reader shows as Also at, which says the same text is printed there, and that page prints different Arabic; it is now shown as Another portion at; the Ḥadīth link for at-Tirmidhī 1314 to Name 20, Name 21 was of the kind the reader shows as Also at, which says the same text is printed there, and those pages prints different Arabic; it is now shown as Another portion at. AFTER THE CHAT-END AUDIT OF 81–85: the grade field of Ibn Mājah 2144 and of Ibn Mājah 4164 and of Ibn Mājah 925 and of at-Tirmidhī 1314 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 word dataset is replaced by the six editions; the link to Names 20 and 21 was read on all three pages and stands, one report of Anas in three editions through Ḥammād ibn Salamah. AFTER THE 1–40 HYGIENE READING: the named line segment for 5:114 said carried on this Name’s supplication page and on the Qurʼan page of Name 73; it now says carried at Name 73, and standing also on this Name’s supplication page, which is the clause verifyN reads. The root was also recounted on the pointed Tanzil text: 123 words in 109 verses across 39 forms, with no look alike at all, which is exactly what this entry says. Ar-Razzāq stands once at 51:58, khayru r-rāziqīn five times at 5:114 and 22:58 and 23:72 and 34:39 and 62:11, bi-rāziqīn once at 15:20 of people, and people are told to provide at 4:5 and 4:8; count_rzq.py asserts every one of those loci. AFTER THE VERIFYN REPAIR OF 1–99: the segment added at the chat-end audit of 71–75 named 51:56–57 and gave the second of the two to Name 54 alone, in the plural form Names 17 and 54. Two things were wrong with it. verifyN matches the word Name followed by a number, so the plural is invisible to it and the only claim it could read was the trailing Name 54; and that claim was short in any case, because 51:57 stands on this page as well as on Name 54’s. The segment now uses the singular house form and names both, and says which of the two verses they print. 51:56 stands at no Name and is listed as such above.

IN BUILD 149, FROM THE PHASE 2 READING: the carried line above is corrected in place, 51:57 standing at Name 54 as well, linked exactly, as the record after the verifyN repair says; so is the ḥadīth line, Abū Dāwūd 3993 being carried at Name 54 too, linked exactly, its two Englishes waiting on the author (A23). The open item is moved before the coherence record, the order the headings keep in the other notes, and records that it is resolved. The ref gives al-Ḥalīmī as in al-Bayhaqī, as this note records he was read. The 51:57 note gives al-Baghawī citing the ḥadīth, as his text does, the number 2569 standing only in his editor’s note, the report being Muslim 2569. The reflection’s quotations and the ref’s 51:57 wait on the author (A29).

BY THE AUTHOR’S DECISIONS OF 2026-09-25, IN BUILD 182: MEDS 17 quotes the verse of the water, 51:57, Ibn Mājah 4164 and Ibn Mājah 2144 in the book’s English, its framing kept, and the ref gives 51:57 in the book’s English; Ibn Mājah 4164 and at-Tirmidhī 2344 were compared by the Arabic and do not carry the same words, so no pair is made (A29); Abū Dāwūd 3993 keeps this page’s Indeed I am the Provider, which Name 54 now gives (A23).

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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