• Light upon the tongue: because their letters are few and they consist of sounds that are easy to articulate—none of them contains a letter of hardness. In addition, both phrases are nouns, and nouns are lighter on the tongue than verbs; hence their pronunciation is swift and graceful.
• Heavy on the Scale: truly heavy, owing to the abundant reward granted to the one who utters them and to the multiplied merits recorded for the person who remembers Allah with them. The words “beloved,” “light,” and “heavy” all serve as adjectives qualifying “two phrases.”
• Subḥān Allāh: a verbal noun (ism masdar) that must appear in the accusative because of an implied, omitted verb; the underlying noun is tasbīḥ (glorification).
• wa-bi-ḥamdih: the prefixed wāw introduces a circumstantial clause, meaning, “I glorify Him while clothed in my praise of Him.”
• Subḥān Allāh al-ʿAẓīm: the attribute of Magnificence is mentioned here so that this remembrance combines both fear of Him and hope in Him. This mirrors the Quranic method of presenting promise and threat, always sealing the verses with an ending that suits the context.
All praise is due to Allah, by whose favor righteous deeds are completed. On the eighth day of the eighth month of the year 1408 AH, I concluded my explanation of the vocabulary of the aḥādīth in this blessed book, Bulūgh al-Marām, at my home in the ʿAzīziyyah district of Mecca.
On the morning of 30/1/1409 AH the second review of the commentary on the unfamiliar terms of Bulūgh al-Marām was finished; all praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
On the evening of Tuesday, 9/5/1421 AH, we completed yet another review of “Mufradāt al-Ḥadīth” in order to correct any errors, omissions, or flaws it contained; all praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
- Points derived from the ḥadīth:
1 – The author—may Allah have mercy on him—concluded his book with tasbīḥ (glorifying Allah) and taḥmīd (praising Him), just as Imām al-Bukhārī did in his Ṣaḥīḥ when he ended it with this noble ḥadīth, and it is a fitting conclusion.