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Name 29 of 99

Al-ʿAdl

الْعَدْلُ

The Utterly Just

In short

Al-ʿAdl (الْعَدْلُ) is the 29th of the 99 Names of Allah. It means "The Utterly Just".

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How the scholars invoke Al-ʿAdl.

  1. "and heard from him the entire Musnad of Abu Muhammad Abdullah ibn Abdul Rahman ibn al-Fadl ibn Bahran al-Darimi in Rajab of the year 727 AH. He said, the righteous sheikah, daughter of the kings, Fatima ibn al-Adl Taj al-Din Ali ibn Ali ibn Abu al-Badr, narrated to us. She said, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Masud ibn Behroz al-Maristani told us that Abu al-Waqt Abdul Awal ibn Shuayb al-Shanjari al-Sufi narrated to him, who heard it from the Imam Abu al-Hassan Abdul Rahman ibn al-Muzaffar al-Dawudi, from Abu Muhammad Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hamawaih al-Sarkassi, from Abu Imran Isa ibn Umar ibn al-Abbas al-Samarkandi, from"

    — Ibn Battuta, Volume One: From Tangier to the Lands of the East

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