What does Asttam mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Asttam (استطعم) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Asttam

Asttam according to Al-Qamus al-Fiqhi

Such a one: to ask him to feed one. In the Quran: [al-Kahf, 77: 'So the two proceeded until, when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to host them. Then they found therein a wall about to collapse, and he set it upright. He said: had you wished, you could have taken a payment for it.']. Al-ta'am: he tasted it in order to know its flavour. Al-ta'am: the act of feeding. Everything that is eaten, by which the body is sustained. In the Quran: [al-Insan, 8-9: 'And they give food, out of love for Him, to the needy, the orphan and the captive: we feed you only for the sake of Allah; we seek from you neither reward nor thanks.'] (plural) at'ima. Everything from which sustenance is taken: wheat, barley, dates. The people of the Hijaz and Iraq apply it especially to wheat. In the hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri: 'We used to bring out the zakat of fast-breaking as a sa' of food, or a sa' of barley, or a sa' of dates, or a sa' of 'aqit (curd), or a sa' of raisins.' Al-Khalil said: the loftier usage among the Arabs is that al-ta'am means wheat especially. What is drunk. In the noble hadith about the well of Zamzam: 'It is food that feeds', that is, it satisfies the one who drinks it. And it is said: 'The milk of their animals, their food, was stored for them, and no one milked the animal of another without his permission.' The 'foods' here are milk. The slaughtered animal; in the mighty Book: [al-Ma'ida, 5: 'Today the good things are made lawful for you, and the food of those given the Scripture is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them.']. In common usage: a name for what is eaten (al-Fayyumi). In the usage of the early generations: a name for wheat and its flour. Among the Hanafis: in their usage, what is customarily prepared for eating among any edible thing that can be eaten without a condiment; or: the grains. Al-ta'm: what the sense of taste conveys. What one craves of food. It is said: he has no taste, and so-and-so is not one of taste, when he is worthless. Al-ta'am: food. Eating; it is said: so-and-so ate little (qalla ta'ma), that is, he ate it. Al-ta'ma: food; it is said: I made this property the provision (ta'ma) of so-and-so. The manner of earning; it is said: so-and-so is chaste in his earning ('afif al-ta'ma), and of bad earning (khabith al-ta'ma) when his earning is bad. (plural) tu'am.

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