3 – The Unique: (the One 6, the Unique)
He—may Allah have mercy on him—said:
“The One, the Unique, is He who alone possesses all perfections and is unrivalled in every perfection, glory, majesty, beauty, praiseworthiness, wisdom, mercy, and all other attributes of perfection. In these He has no equal, no peer, and none comparable to Him in any respect. He is unique in His life, His self-subsistence and sustaining of all things, His knowledge, power, greatness, majesty, beauty, praiseworthiness, wisdom, mercy, and all His other attributes. He possesses the utmost and fullest perfection in each of these attributes. His servants must therefore affirm His oneness in belief, speech, and action by acknowledging His absolute perfection and unparalleled oneness, and dedicating every form of worship to Him alone.”8.
(1) Reported by Ahmad (3/158), Abū Dāwūd (1495), al-Nasā’ī (3/52), Ibn Mājah (3858), al-Tirmidhī (3544), and al-Hākim (1/504). Al-Albānī graded it authentic in Sahīh Abī Dāwūd, 1/279, hadith 1326.
(2) Al-Baqarah (2:163).
(3) Al-Baqarah (2:255).
(4) Reported by Imam Ahmad (6/461), al-Tirmidhī (3478), who said, “This is a good and authentic hadith,” Abū Dāwūd (1496), and Ibn Mājah (3855). Al-Albānī graded it good in Sahīh Ibn Mājah (3109).
(5) See Majmū‘ al-Fawā’id wa-Iqtinās al-Awābid, pp. 250–252.
(6) Evidence for this name is the statement of Allah, Exalted is He: “Say: ‘He is Allah, the One.’” (Al-Ikhlās 112:1).
(7) Evidence for this name is the statement of Allah, Exalted is He: “Say: ‘Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is the One, the All-Subduing.’” (Al-Ra‘d 13:16).
(8) Al-Tafsīr (5/620–621). See also Bahjat Qulūb al-Abrār wa-Qurrat ‘Uyūn al-Akhyār fī Sharh Jawāmi‘ al-Akhbār, p. 165.