Al-Hamid
Al-Hamid is the Praiseworthy — the One who deserves all praise, whether or not anyone offers it.
Name 56 of 99
الْحَمِيدُ
Al-Hamid
The Praiseworthy
- In Arabic
- الْحَمِيدُ
- Transliteration
- Al-Hamid
- Position in the list
- Name 56 of 99
Al-Hamid — The Praiseworthy
What the name means
Hamd is praise joined to love, offered for what someone is as much as for what they give. Allah is Hamid in the passive sense — deserving of it — and His praiseworthiness does not depend on being recognised.
The Quran pairs it with self-sufficiency: Allah is al-Ghaniyy, al-Hamid — needing nothing, and praiseworthy regardless.
Living by this name
It explains why the Quran opens with praise rather than with a request. Recognition comes before asking.
Its response is alhamdulillah in both conditions — the Prophet ﷺ praised Allah in what pleased him and in what did not. See also Ash-Shakur and Al-Ghaniyy.
Al-Hamid in the Quran
The 4 verses below contain this name. Every reference is checked against the Arabic text of the Quran before it is published, so Al-Hamid really is in each verse it is cited from.
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ الٓر ۚ كِتَٰبٌ أَنزَلْنَٰهُ إِلَيْكَ لِتُخْرِجَ ٱلنَّاسَ مِنَ ٱلظُّلُمَٰتِ إِلَى ٱلنُّورِ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِمْ إِلَىٰ صِرَٰطِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْحَمِيدِ
Alif, Lam, Ra. [This is] a Book which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], that you might bring mankind out of darknesses into the light by permission of their Lord - to the path of the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy -
Surah Ibrahim 14:1Read the full surah →لِلَّهِ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلْغَنِىُّ ٱلْحَمِيدُ
To Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and earth. Indeed, Allah is the Free of need, the Praiseworthy.
Surah Luqman 31:26Read the full surah →لَّا يَأْتِيهِ ٱلْبَٰطِلُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَلَا مِنْ خَلْفِهِۦ ۖ تَنزِيلٌۭ مِّنْ حَكِيمٍ حَمِيدٍۢ
Falsehood cannot approach it from before it or from behind it; [it is] a revelation from a [Lord who is] Wise and Praiseworthy.
Surah Fussilat 41:42Read the full surah →وَمَا نَقَمُوا۟ مِنْهُمْ إِلَّآ أَن يُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْحَمِيدِ
And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy,
Surah Al-Buruj 85:8Read the full surah →
How reliable is the list of ninety-nine?
That Allah has ninety-nine names is established in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, and both are agreed upon. The specific enumeration — this list of ninety-nine — comes from a narration in Jami' at-Tirmidhi that at-Tirmidhi himself called gharib, and which many hadith scholars grade weak; several held that a narrator compiled the names by searching the Quran and Sunnah. Classical scholars including al-Khattabi, Ibn Hazm, al-Qurtubi and al-Ghazali compiled lists of their own that differ from it. None of this touches the names themselves, every one of which is established elsewhere; it means the count of exactly these ninety-nine is a scholarly arrangement rather than a revealed roster, and Allah's names are not limited to them.
Questions about Al-Hamid
Al-Hamid (الْحَمِيدُ) means "The Praiseworthy". Like every one of the ninety-nine names, it describes an attribute of Allah rather than serving as a label — the names are how the Quran teaches who Allah is.
Yes. This page cites 4 verses containing Al-Hamid, each checked against the Arabic text before publishing.
Address Allah with "Ya" before the name — "Ya Hamid" — and ask for what that attribute gives. The Quran instructs it directly: "To Allah belong the most beautiful names, so call upon Him by them" (7:180).
It is number 56 in the well-known list. The order comes from the narration of at-Tirmidhi and is a scholarly arrangement, so numbering can differ slightly between printed lists — the names themselves do not.