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title: "Al-Basit (الْبَاسِطُ)"
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# Al-Basit

**الْبَاسِطُ** — The Reliever

The One who expands provision, opens the heart, and extends His mercy to whomever He wills, granting abundance.

**Source:** Bakara 2:245 (2:245)

**Virtue:** Al-Basit declares that Allah is the One who, whenever He wills, expands provisions, restores health, broadens hearts, and pours abundance into souls. Paired with Al-Qabid, this name teaches that every condition of the servant is in His hand. When the people of Medina complained about rising prices, the Prophet (peace be upon him) answered: 'It is Allah alone who constricts and expands,' affirming that every relief—material and spiritual—flows from Him. The servant who invokes Al-Basit directs the gratitude for any ease back to Allah, and aspires toward a generous, openhearted character that mirrors the divine expansion.

## Related hadith

> Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: When the people of Medina asked the Prophet (peace be upon him) to fix prices, he answered: 'It is Allah alone who fixes prices—the Constrictor (Al-Qabid), the Expander (Al-Basit), the Provider.' He further said that he did not wish to meet his Lord while any of them claimed an injustice from him in life or property.
> — Tirmizî, Büyû' 1314

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