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al-Wadud — The Most Loving. It is name number 47 in the enumeration of God's most beautiful names in the hadith of Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) at al-Tirmidhi ¹; Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya devoted a chapter of Jala' al-Afham to explaining these names ².

The name occurs in the Qur'an, among them: 85:14.

Abu Hurayra reports: 'God has ninety-nine names — a hundred less one; whoever enumerates them enters Paradise' ³.

Among the righteous: Rabi'a al-Adawiyya is remembered for her prayers of love for God alone, becoming the tradition's figure of the servant who loves her Lord most sincerely. ⁴