His saying, “The Most Merciful,” from the basmalah. This name is spoken about in this chapter from two aspects: from the aspect of the essence and from the aspect of the adjective. Whoever expresses it as a substitute, he makes it an essence, and whoever expresses it as an adjective, he makes it an adjective. And the attributes are six. And from the condition of these attributes is life, so the seven appear, and all of these attributes are for the essence, which is the alif found between the meem. The Nūn is from the Most Gracious, and the talk about this name is based on

the proven report from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, that God created Adam in his image

in terms of returning the pronoun to God, and this view is supported by the other narration. And it is

His saying, peace be upon him, in the image of the Most Merciful.

And this narration, even if it is not authentic from the narrators of the hadith, it is authentic fro