9 – Ibn ʿAllān said: The most apparent view is that the Greatest Name is the majestic word “Allah,” for it is deemed the loftiest by the majority of scholars. Its meaning is that this Name is distinguished from all the others by a special quality none of the rest possess.

10 – The editor adds: Some forty different opinions have been recorded concerning its exact identification, and al-Suyuti even authored a separate treatise on the matter. Ibn Ḥajar said: The opinion with the strongest supporting chain is that it is: “Allah, there is no deity but Him—the One, the Ever-Besought, who neither begets nor is begotten, and to whom none is comparable.”