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Discover the meaning of the term Al-zamakhshariyu (زَّمَخْشَرِيُّ) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readThe hands of Allah are outstretched, its plural is busut, similar to roudha ounaouf, then it is lightened and said busut like odhoun and odhoun, and in the recitation of Abd Allah « bal yadahu bisطan bustan », he made the stretching of the hand a metaphor for generosity and a representation, and there is neither a hand nor a stretching there, exalted is Allah above that. Al-Jawhari said: And a hand bisط also, meaning with a kasr, meaning open, then he said: And in the recitation of Abd Allah « bal yadahu bisطani ».
He is Abu al-Qasim al-Allamah Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari nicknamed Jar Allah, and Zamakhshari is a village from Khwarezm, who passed away on the night of Arafah and it was said: on the eleventh of Shawwal in the year five hundred and thirty-eight in Jurjan after his return from the pilgrimage, and he was born on Wednesday the twenty-seventh of Rajab in the year four hundred and sixty-seven.