The Name & the Named
بِسۡمِ
ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Some
of the Maturidiyyah say that al-ism wa al-musammah, the name and
the thing named, are one. Imam Abu
al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn Isma’il al-Ash’ari (r.a.) believed that there is a
distinction between the two and the tasmiyyah, act of naming. Some of them divided a name into three
categories: itself, other than itself, and a third category that is neither
itself nor other than itself. There is
agreement that the tasmiyyah, act of naming, is other than them, the
name and the thing named, and it is what is established with the one
named. This is taken from Bidayah
al-Kalam.
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