What are the four well-known names of Surat Al-Baqarah, and how many verses, letters, and words does it have?
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Surat Al-Baqarah has six names: Al-Baqarah (The Cow), Al-Zahra (The Radiant), Sanam Al-Quran (The Hump/Summit of the Quran), Fustat Al-Quran (The Tent/Canopy of the Quran), Al-Bikr (The Virgin/Early), and Al-Awan (The Middle-Aged). It is considered a Madani by scholarly consensus, and it contains one thousand narrations, one thousand commands, and one thousand prohibitions. Its verses number two hundred and eighty-seven according to the Basran count, its words are six thousand two hundred and twenty-one, and its letters are twenty-five thousand and five hundred.
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