What does Ghanima mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Ghanima (غنيمة) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Ghanima

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

Name of what is taken of the unbelievers’ wealths by the raiders’ force and the unbelievers’ subduing.

Ghanima according to Al-Kulliyat (Al-Kafawi)

What is won from the associators’ people by force, that is, subduing or victory, war standing; its ruling is taking its fifth.

Ghanima according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

Ghanima and ghanam in the tongue: profit and surplus; ghanam used with this sense in the fiqh rule. Ghanima in fiqh terminology: what was taken of the war-people by force, war standing; plural ghanaim. Said: what the fighters took of the unbelievers by toil and strain. Fay’: what the fighters took of the unbelievers without toil nor strain. Said: ghanima between forty and a hundred sheep, ghanam what is pastured singly, between two hundred and four hundred.

Ghanima according to Maqalid al-'Ulum (As-Suyuti)

What is gotten of them by toil.

Ghanima according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

What was gotten of the unbelievers by force with toil (asa’ra: pressed his mount; awjafa: quickened his riding; dayyata: goaded it). Horses and riders.

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