The 99 Names · From the Prophetic Sunnah
Al-Hayiyy الحيي
The Modest, who is too shy to turn back His servant’s raised hands empty, and who conceals him rather than exposing him.
Explanation
A detailed explanation of this name (in Arabic) is in: Sharh Asma' Allah al-Husna fi Daw' al-Kitab wa al-Sunnah — Dr. Sa'eed ibn 'Ali ibn Wahf al-Qahtani — p. 189 ↗
The author explains this name together with: الستير
Evidence
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ حَلِيمٌ حَيِيٌّ سِتِّيرٌ، يُحِبُّ الحَيَاءَ وَالسَّتْرَ»
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ حَيِيٌّ يَسْتَحْيِي مِنْ عَبْدِهِ إِذَا مَدَّ يَدَيْهِ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يَرُدَّهُمَا صِفْرًا»
Call upon Allah by this name
“To Allah belong the Beautiful Names, so call upon Him by them” — Al-A'raf 180
Example for practice
اللهم إنك حيي ستير، فاسترني في الدنيا والآخرة، ولا تردّ يديّ صِفرًا
O Allah, You are Modest and Concealing; cover my faults in this world and the next, and do not return my hands empty.
An example for practice, not a transmitted text — following the Quranic way of closing a request with the fitting name (see Ibn al-Qayyim, Bada'i' al-Fawa'id 2/249).