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Counting Allah’s ninety nine names means that knowing them, learning them by heart, understanding them, believing in them, good observance towards them, presentation of their boundaries in our dealings with Allah, and supplicating Allah through them. Thus, the hadeeth means that whoever committed those names to memory, contemplated their implications, respected their meanings, conducted himself in accordance with them, sanctified their Owner, such a person will surely be rewarded with the Gardens of Paradise.

There is a consensus among the scholars that Allah’s names are not confined to the number mentioned by the Prophet s.aw . His s.a.w statement simply tells us that a Muslim who properly believes in and applies those ninety nine names will surely enter Al-Jannah. It does not negate the existence of other names for the Almighty. The Prophet s.a.w told us about entering Al-Jannah, not about the total number of Allah’s names.

The proof that there are other names which the Creator did not reveal to us, is the following hadeeth of the Prophet s.a.w If any Muslim afflicted with distress or grief makes this supplication, his supplication will be accepted, ‘Oh Allah, I am Your slave, son of Your slave, son of Your maidservant. My forehead is in Your hand. Your command concerning me prevails, and Your decision concerning me is just. I call upon You by every one of the beautiful names by which You have described Yourself, or which You have revealed in Your Book, or have taught any one of Your creatures, or which You have chosen to keep in the knowledge of the unseen with You, to make the Quran the delight of my heart, the light of my breast, and remove of any grief, sorrows, and afflictions’, Allah will remove one’s affliction and replace it with joy and happiness.” The Companions, then, said, “Do we have to learn these words?” The Prophet s.a.w replied: “Yes, any one who heard them should learn them." 

We reiterate the rule that the only names and attributes to be ascribed to Allah are those mentioned in the Quran or in the authentic Sunnah, they are directly communicated to us and are not the products of opinion and interpretation. Allah is to be described only by the attributes with which He had described Himself or with which His Prophet s.a.w had described Him. And He is to be named only by the names with which He had named Himself or with which His Prophet s.a.w had named Him .