[Machine] "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful." [Chapter 1, Al-Fatiha] Ibn Abbas said, "And Allah has kept it preserved for you, so no one before you has brought it out."  

{بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ} [الفاتحة 1] السَّابِعَةُ قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ «وَقَدِ ادَّخَرَهَا اللَّهُ لَكُمْ فَمَا أَخْرَجَهَا لِأَحَدٍ قَبْلَكُمْ»  

[Machine] Uthman ibn Affan asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about "Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim." He said, "It is a name among the names of Allah, and there is nothing between it and the name of Allah al-Akbar except like the difference between the blackness and whiteness of the eye from its proximity."  

أَنَّ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ سَأَلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ فَقَالَ «هُوَ اسْمٌ مِنْ أَسْمَاءِ اللَّهِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ اسْمِ اللَّهِ الْأَكْبَرِ إِلَّا كَمَا بَيْنَ سَوَّادِ الْعَيْنِ وَبَيَاضِهَا مِنَ الْقُرْبِ»