ASMA AL-HUSNA · 62 / 99
Al-Hayy — The Ever-Living: الْحَيُّ
Meaning
Life perfect and endless, source of all life — with Al-Qayyum in 2:255 (Ayat al-Kursi) and 3:2. Creaturely life is given and taken (see #60–61); His life neither began nor ends, neither sleeps nor tires.
Textual references
- Qur’an 2:255
The 99-names hadith itself (Sahih al-Bukhari 2736; Sahih Muslim 2677) does not enumerate the names; the enumeration order follows the Tirmidhi listing, whose chain scholars grade as weak for the list itself.
Reflection
Entrust the living-and-dying to the One who does neither.
A personal contemplation aid — not doctrine and not a promised outcome.
Sources & methodology
- Qur’an 2:255 (cf. 3:2; 25:58)
- Sahih al-Bukhari 2736 (the 99 names)
Verse citations were checked against the Qur’an text. Claims that could not be verified were omitted. No recitation counts, guaranteed effects, or per-name hadith benefits are asserted.