And the correct view, held by the majority of scholars, is that the Prophet’s saying, may Allah bless him and grant him peace:

“Allah has ninety-nine names; whoever comprehends them will enter Paradise,”

means that whoever comprehends ninety-nine of His names will enter Paradise. It does not mean that He has only ninety-nine names. For in the other hadith, reported by Ahmad and by Abū Hātim in his Sahīh, he says:

“I ask You by every name belonging to You, by which You have named Yourself, or which You have revealed in Your Book, or taught to any of Your creation, or kept exclusively with Yourself in the knowledge of the unseen, to make the magnificent Quran the springtime of my heart, the light of my breast, the clearing of my sorrow, and the removal of my distress and worry.”

It is also established in the Sahīh that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, would say in prostration 5:

“O Allah, I seek refuge in Your pleasure from Your wrath, in Your pardon from Your punishment, and in You from You. I cannot fully recount Your praise. You are as You have praised His attributes.”

Thus he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stated that he could not fully recount His praise; and if he were to