Knowledge and awareness
Ash-Shahīd ٱلشَّهِيد
The Witness, present to everything, who will testify on the Day of Judgement.
18 āyāt · 11 sūrahs · root ش ه د
Why Allah uses this name
Al-Saʿdī reads shahādah as knowledge plus presence plus testimony — so it closes disputes: the case is already witnessed.
Take this with you
Argue less about what people saw. Live for what He witnessed.
'Say: What thing is greatest in testimony? Say: Allah is Witness between me and you' (6:19).
Qurʾān 6:19
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.
4. Sūrat An-Nisāʾ النساء
6 āyahs
āyah 33, 41, 72, 79, 159, 166
5. Sūrat Al-Māʾidah المائدة
1 āyah
āyah 117
22. Sūrat Al-Ḥajj الحج
1 āyah
āyah 17
33. Sūrat Al-Aḥzāb الأحزاب
1 āyah
āyah 55
34. Sūrat Sabaʾ سبأ
1 āyah
āyah 47
41. Sūrat Fuṣṣilat فصلت
2 āyahs
āyah 47, 53
48. Sūrat Al-Fatḥ الفتح
1 āyah
āyah 28
50. Sūrat Qāf ق
2 āyahs
āyah 21, 37
58. Sūrat Al-Mujādilah المجادلة
1 āyah
āyah 6
85. Sūrat Al-Burūj البروج
1 āyah
āyah 9
100. Sūrat Al-ʿĀdiyāt العاديات
1 āyah
āyah 7
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.
Al-Khabīr ٱلْخَبِير
The All-Aware: knowledge of the inward reality of things, their secrets and motives.
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.
Al-Muḥṣī ٱلْمُحْصِى
The Reckoner of all things: the One who has counted and enumerated everything, exactly.