meaning thereby the Knower without being taught, since anyone other than You knows nothing except through another's teaching. And "the Wise" (al-Ḥakīm) is the possessor of wisdom. As:

675 - Al-Muthannā narrated to me, he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, he said: Muʿāwiya narrated to me, from ʿAlī, from Ibn ʿAbbās: "The Knowing" is the One who is perfect in His knowledge, and "the Wise" is the One who is perfect in His judgment. (1)

And it has been said that the meaning of "the Wise" (al-Ḥakīm) is the Ruler (al-Ḥākim), just as "the Knowing" (al-ʿAlīm) bears the meaning of the Knower (al-ʿĀlim), and "the Aware" (al-Khabīr) bears the meaning of the Informer (al-Khābir).

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The discourse regarding the interpretation of the statement of the Exalted: {He said, "O Adam, inform them of their names." And when he had informed them of their names, He said, "Did I not tell you that I know the unseen of the heavens and the earth...?"}

Abū Jaʿfar said: Indeed, Allah—exalted be His praise—made known to His angels—who asked Him to appoint them as successors on earth, and described themselves as obeying Him and submitting to His command, to the exclusion of others who would cause corruption therein and shed blood—that, prior to His informing them of it, they were ignorant of the locations of His governance and the locus of His decree in the same manner as their ignorance of the names of those whom He presented to them, since that was among what He had not taught them so that they might know it; and that they and other servants possess no knowledge except what their Lord has taught them, and that He singles out with knowledge whom He wills among creation and withholds it from whom He wills, just as He taught Adam the names of those He presented to the angels and withheld knowledge of them from the angels until after He had taught them.

As for the interpretation of His statement: "He said, 'O Adam, inform them,'" He says: Inform the angels; and the -hum (them) in His statement "inform them" refers back to the angels. And His statement: "of their names" means the names of those whom He presented to the angels, and the -hum (their) in "their names" is an allusion referring to