Knowledge and awareness
Al-Khabīr ٱلْخَبِير
The All-Aware: knowledge of the inward reality of things, their secrets and motives.
36 āyāt · 21 sūrahs · root خ ب ر
Why Allah uses this name
Al-Saʿdī distinguishes it from ʿilm: is awareness of the innermost of matters, so it lands where hearts, intentions and concealed dealings are in question.
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Sincerity is the only thing that survives this name.
Al-Saʿdī: is the One whose knowledge reaches the innermost secrets of things, so that nothing hidden is hidden from Him.
Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān (tafsīr of the beautiful names)
Where it appears in the Qur'an
Counted from the muṣḥaf text as served by the Quran.com API. A few occurrences describe someone other than Allah; read the āyah in place to see which.
2. Sūrat Al-Baqarah البقرة
2 āyahs
āyah 234, 271
3. Sūrat Āl ʿImrān آل عمران
1 āyah
āyah 180
4. Sūrat An-Nisāʾ النساء
4 āyahs
āyah 35, 94, 128, 135
6. Sūrat Al-Anʿām الأنعام
3 āyahs
āyah 18, 73, 103
11. Sūrat Hūd هود
2 āyahs
āyah 1, 111
17. Sūrat Al-Isrāʾ الإسراء
3 āyahs
āyah 17, 30, 96
22. Sūrat Al-Ḥajj الحج
1 āyah
āyah 63
25. Sūrat Al-Furqān الفرقان
2 āyahs
āyah 58, 59
31. Sūrat Luqmān لقمان
3 āyahs
āyah 16, 29, 34
33. Sūrat Al-Aḥzāb الأحزاب
2 āyahs
āyah 2, 34
34. Sūrat Sabaʾ سبأ
1 āyah
āyah 1
35. Sūrat Fāṭir فاطر
2 āyahs
āyah 14, 31
42. Sūrat Ash-Shūrā الشورى
1 āyah
āyah 27
48. Sūrat Al-Fatḥ الفتح
1 āyah
āyah 11
49. Sūrat Al-Ḥujurāt الحجرات
1 āyah
āyah 13
57. Sūrat Al-Ḥadīd الحديد
1 āyah
āyah 10
58. Sūrat Al-Mujādilah المجادلة
2 āyahs
āyah 3, 11
64. Sūrat At-Taghābun التغابن
1 āyah
āyah 8
66. Sūrat At-Taḥrīm التحريم
1 āyah
āyah 3
67. Sūrat Al-Mulk الملك
1 āyah
āyah 14
100. Sūrat Al-ʿĀdiyāt العاديات
1 āyah
āyah 11
Names it closes āyāt with
The Qur'an often seals an āyah with two names together. These are the pairings this name appears in most.
Names close to this one
Al-ʿAlīm ٱلْعَلِيم
The All-Knowing: His knowledge covers the hidden and the open, the past and what has not yet happened.
As-Samīʿ ٱلسَّمِيع
The All-Hearing: He hears every voice, in every language, including the one raised in secret.
Al-Baṣīr ٱلْبَصِير
The All-Seeing: nothing is too small, too dark or too distant for His sight.
Ar-Raqīb ٱلرَّقِيب
The Ever-Watchful, whose watch never lapses for a moment.
Al-Ḥakīm ٱلْحَكِيم
The All-Wise: He places everything exactly where it belongs, in creation and in command.
Ash-Shahīd ٱلشَّهِيد
The Witness, present to everything, who will testify on the Day of Judgement.
Al-Muḥṣī ٱلْمُحْصِى
The Reckoner of all things: the One who has counted and enumerated everything, exactly.