Al-Mani'
Al-Mani' is the Preventer — the One who withholds and defends, protecting by refusal as much as by giving.
Name 90 of 99
الْمَانِعُ
Al-Mani'
The Preventer
- In Arabic
- الْمَانِعُ
- Transliteration
- Al-Mani'
- Position in the list
- Name 90 of 99
Al-Mani' — The Preventer
What the name means
Man' is to prevent, and in Arabic also to defend a thing from being reached. Both senses apply: Allah withholds what would harm, and shields what He chooses to keep.
The name is not in the Quran as a noun — it enters the ninety-nine through at-Tirmidhi — while the meaning appears in the Prophet's ﷺ words after every prayer: there is no preventer of what You have given, and no giver of what You have withheld.
Where Al-Mani' comes from
Al-Mani' does not appear in the Quran as a standalone name. It reaches the famous list of ninety-nine through the narration of at-Tirmidhi, and its meaning is established by the Quran in other words — through verbs and related forms rather than the name itself. Scholars accepted such names on that basis; this page marks the distinction rather than hiding it.
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-Mani'
Al-Mani' (الْمَانِعُ) means "The Preventer". 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.
Not as a standalone name. Al-Mani' reaches the list of ninety-nine through at-Tirmidhi's narration, while its meaning is established in the Quran through verbs and related forms. This page says so plainly rather than attaching a verse that does not contain it.
Address Allah with "Ya" before the name — "Ya Mani'" — 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 90 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.