They both said: He taught him the name of everything: these are horses, these are mules, camels, jinn, and wild beasts; and he began naming everything by its name. (1)

658 - And I was narrated from ʿAmmār, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar narrated to us, from his father, from al-Rabīʿ, He said: The name of everything. (2)

And others said: He taught Adam the names, all of them—meaning the names of the angels.

• Mention of those who said that:

659 - I was narrated from ʿAmmār, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar narrated to us, from his father, from al-Rabīʿ, regarding His statement: “And He taught Adam the names, all of them,” He said: The names of the angels. (3)

And others said: He only taught him the names of his offspring, all of them.

• Mention of those who said that:

660 - Muḥammad ibn Jarīr narrated to me, saying: Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said regarding His statement: “And He taught Adam the names, all of them,” He said: The names of all his offspring. (4)

And the most proper of these views to be correct, and the most similar to what the apparent text of the recitation indicates as accurate, is the view of those who said regarding His statement: “And He taught Adam the names, all of them” that they are the names of his offspring and the names of the angels, to the exclusion of the names of all other categories of creation. That is because Allah—exalted be His praise—said: “Then He presented them to the angels,” meaning by that the individual entities of those named by the names that He taught Adam. And the Arabs do not usually use the pronoun suffix -hum [represented by the hāʾ and mīm] except to refer to the names of the sons of Adam and the angels. As for when it refers to the names of beasts and all creation other than those we described, they use the pronoun suffix -hunna or -hā [represented by hāʾ and alif or hāʾ and nūn], saying: “ʿaraḍahunna” or “ʿaraḍahā”; and likewise they do when using pronouns for categories