Is "The Planner" (Al-Mudabbir) among the Most Beautiful Names of Allah?
Describing Allah as "Al-Mudabbir" (The Disposer of Affairs) is permissible, as indicated by Quranic texts, such as His saying, the Most High: ﴿He disposes the affair﴾. This is considered among the actions of Allah, and scholars have mentioned Him with this term. However, regarding "Al-Mudabbir" as one of Allah's Beautiful Names (Al-Asma al-Husna), the names of Allah are tawqifiyyah (restricted to divine revelation); one must adhere to what has been revealed in the Qur'an and , neither adding to nor subtracting from them. The "Indeed, Allah has ninety-nine names" has not been authentically proven with a sound chain of narration concerning the specific enumeration of these names; rather, it is an insertion by some narrators. Scholars have differed on the authenticity of this enumeration and the identification of the names. Some scholars have striven to deduce Allah's Beautiful Names from the texts of the Qur'an and Sunnah, and some imams have affirmed the name "Al-Mudabbir" among them based on their (independent reasoning) or their authentication of certain narrations. Therefore, there is no blame upon whoever affirms it as a name for Allah, because this matter is subject to scholarly ijtihad among people of knowledge.
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