What does Al-asttbaʿ mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Al-asttbaʿ (استتباع) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Al-asttbaʿ

Al-asttbaʿ according to Kitab at-Ta'rifat (Al-Jurjani)

Praising one thing in a way that entails the praising of another.

Al-asttbaʿ according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

In language: the seeking of consequence; with the masters of badi': praising one thing in a way that entails praising another; it is one of the immaterial embellishments (muhassinat ma'nawiyya).

Al-asttbaʿ according to Maqalid al-'Ulum (As-Suyuti)

Describing a thing in a way that entails another description, in praise or blame.

Al-asttbaʿ according to Maqalid al-'Ulum (As-Suyuti)

Praising a thing in a way that entails further praise.

Al-asttbaʿ according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

Praising one thing in a way that entails praising another (al-Ta'rifat, p. 21). Istithna' (exception): the utterance of a word requiring the exclusion of part of what a preceding general word includes, or the removal of the word's ruling as it stands; the first as in 'Say: I do not find in what is revealed to me' (al-An'am, 145), and the second as in 'I shall surely do it, if God wills'.

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