Ṣād 38:30

Wa wahabnā li-Dāwūda Sulaymān, niʿma'l-ʿabd, innahū awwāb

"And We bestowed Solomon on David. How excellent a servant! He was one who turned back often."

The root و-ه-ب occurred in the ninth verse as al-Wahhāb and was treated there: to give without return.

It was tabulated above; here I complete it. This is the name's first actual answer within the sūra:

And what is given is not a kingdom or a capacity — it is a son.

I record this as my own reading: in the ninth verse the other side had been met with the question "are the treasuries of mercy with you?" The thirtieth verse shows that something from that treasury has in fact been given. And what is given is a thing of a kind a man cannot obtain by his own effort. This accords with the word's sense of "giving without return".

نِعْمَ — in Arabic a verb of praise (fiʿl al-madḥ): a verb that conveys praise and does not inflect. Its opposite is biʾsa (blame).

This pattern was treated in al-Mursalāt at 77/23 and this verse was named there: "And 'How excellent a servant' (Ṣād 38/30, 44) — niʿma'l-ʿabd." I rely on that.

And the pattern occurs four times in the sūra — twice in praise, twice in blame:

This is a placement that can be verified, and I record it as my own reading: the same grammatical pattern works in opposite directions in the two halves of the sūra. Two praises in the section on the prophets, two blames in the section on the Fire.

And the object of the praise must be recorded: al-ʿabd — the servant. Not the kingdom, not the wisdom, not the wind. The list of what was given to Solomon will come six verses later; the praise comes before what was given, and is built on a single word.

In the seventeenth verse for David, here for Solomon, in the forty-fourth for Job.

All three uses are on the same pattern: innahū awwāb. Word for word the same.

I record this as my own reading: the sūra introduces the three prophets by three different things — David by strength and judgment, Solomon by kingdom and rule, Job by affliction and patience. But it closes all three with the same sentence. What differs is what was given; what is shared is the returning.