The Name 'Al Awal and 'Al Aakhir' is found in the Qur'aan once.
Example from the Qur'aan:
57:3
Explanation by Abu Talhah (Nahj al Asmaa):
Explanation by Shaykh 'Abdur Rahmaan as Sa'dee:
Other:
Allaah's Names: الأول الآخر الظاهر الباطن
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
Abu Zumayl said: I asked Ibn Abbas, saying:
What is that I find in my breast?
He asked: What is it?
I replied: I swear by Allah, I cannot speak about it.
He asked me: Is it something doubtful? and he laughed.
He then said: No one could escape that, until Allah, the exalted, revealed:
"If thou went in doubt as to what we have revealed unto thee, and ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee."
He said: If you find something in your heart, say:
He is the first and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent, and He has full knowledge of all things.
Sunan Abi Daawood 5110
Allaah's names mentioned in du'aa before sleep
al Awwal, al Aakhir, al Baatin and adh Daahir as part of the du'aa:
Suhail reported that Abu Salih used to command us (in these words):
When any one of you intends to go to sleep, he should lie on the bed on his right side and then say:
" O Allah. the Lord of the Heavens and the Lord of the Earth and Lord of the Magnificent Throne, our Lord, and the Lord of evervthina, the Splitter of the grain of corn and the datestone (or fruit kernal), the Revealer of Torah and Injil (Bible) and Criterion (the Holy Qur'an), I seek refuge in Thee from the evil of every- thing Thou art to sieze by the forelock (Thou hast perfect control over it). O Allah, Thou art the First, there is naught before Thee, and Thou art the Last and there is naught after Thee, and Thou art Evident and there is nothing above Thee, and Thou art Innermost and there is nothing beyond Thee. Remove the burden of debt from us and relieve us from want."
Abu Salih used to narrate it from Abu Huraira who narrated it from Allah's Apostle (ﷺ).
Saheeh Muslim 2713a
حَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، قَالَ كَانَ أَبُو صَالِحٍ يَأْمُرُنَا إِذَا أَرَادَ أَحَدُنَا أَنْ يَنَامَ أَنْ يَضْطَجِعَ عَلَى شِقِّهِ الأَيْمَنِ ثُمَّ يَقُولُ
" اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ السَّمَوَاتِ وَرَبَّ الأَرْضِ وَرَبَّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ رَبَّنَا وَرَبَّ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ فَالِقَ الْحَبِّ وَالنَّوَى وَمُنْزِلَ التَّوْرَاةِ وَالإِنْجِيلِ وَالْفُرْقَانِ أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ أَنْتَ آخِذٌ بِنَاصِيَتِهِ اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ الأَوَّلُ فَلَيْسَ قَبْلَكَ شَىْءٌ وَأَنْتَ الآخِرُ فَلَيْسَ بَعْدَكَ شَىْءٌ وَأَنْتَ الظَّاهِرُ فَلَيْسَ فَوْقَكَ شَىْءٌ وَأَنْتَ الْبَاطِنُ فَلَيْسَ دُونَكَ شَىْءٌ اقْضِ عَنَّا الدَّيْنَ وَأَغْنِنَا مِنَ الْفَقْرِ "
. وَكَانَ يَرْوِي ذَلِكَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم
Lectures in Arabic explaining these 4 names by Shaykh Sulaymaan ar Ruhayli:
