Hadith Glossary

عِنّين

'Annin

He who cannot perform intercourse, or reaches only the non-virgin with...

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عُصْبَة

'Asaba

The osier, a plant winding about the tree. The stubborn arrow of a man...

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أب

Ab

A being generated of another individual’s seed of its kind....

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اغتاب

Aghtab

Someone: mentioning his faults behind his back, faults that he conceal...

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أهل الأهواء

Ahl al-Ahwa'

The people of the qibla whose creed is not the creed of the people of ...

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أهل البيت

Ahl albyt

In His saying: ﴿ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنْكُمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ ﴾ [Al-...

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أهل الذمة

Ahl aldhma

(See z m m). Ahl as-Sunnah: (see s n n). The covenanters among the Peo...

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آل

Al

Its origin ahl, the proof ouhila: the diminutive testing wordings, kno...

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أَرْبَعَة المتناسبة

Al-aarbaʿaa al-mtnasba

What is meant by this in the preamble of Khulasat al-Hisab is Ali, Fat...

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أنثى

Al-anthā

The lower of the two categories of mating animals, according to Al-Hur...

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أعراف

Al-aʿraf

It is the vantage point, and it is the station of witnessing the Truth...

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أطرافية

Al-aṭrafya

They excused the inhabitants of peripheral regions for what they were ...

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بغض

Al-bghḍ

It is the aversion of the soul from a thing which is shunned. It is th...

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بدعة

Al-bid'a

It is the deed contrary to the Sunna; it was called bid'a because its ...

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برهان التطبيقي

Al-brhan al-tṭbyqy

It is to suppose, starting from the final effect onwards to infinity, ...

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ذبذب

Al-dhbdhb

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah), because it oscillates, meaning it moves,...

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دعوة التامة

Al-dʿwa al-tama

It is the call of the adhan, so named for its completeness and the gre...

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فريضة

Al-fryḍa

On the fa'ila pattern of farad, which in language means determination;...

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فيض الأقدس

Al-fyḍ al-aqds

It is the essential sensible manifestation causing the existence of th...

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غَلَط

Al-ghalaṭ

That which is contrary to reality. The author of Al-Khayalat al-Latifa...

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غريب من الحديث

Al-ghryb mn al-ḥdyth

That whose chain of transmission is continuously linked to the Messeng...

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حديث

Al-hadith

In language: the opposite of the ancient, for it renews one thing afte...

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حرام

Al-haram

In Persian: "buzurg-o-niru", meaning: forbidden. Some knowers said tha...

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إِشْعَار

Al-iishʿaar

Notification and notifying the sacrificial camel consist of informing ...

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إمامية

Al-imamya

They are those who affirmed the existence of an explicit text designat...

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إيمان

Al-iman

In language: affirmation of the heart. In the Law: belief of the heart...

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إرسال

Al-irsal-

(Placing and sending). Al-irsal in hadith is the absence of the isnad,...

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جنة

Al-janna

It is the abode of bliss in the hereafter; from ijtinan, meaning cover...

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جارودية

Al-jarwdya

They are the companions of Abu al-Jarud. They asserted the existence o...

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جائِزَةُ

Al-jaʾizaau

Sign of the compensation....

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جدي

Al-jdy

With a fatha and sometimes a kasra, the male offspring of a goat when ...

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جُزْء الَّذِي لَا يتجزئ

Al-juzʾ al-adhiy laa ytjzʾ

The unique substratum and the essential point are synonyms: a substrat...

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خَسْف

Al-khasf

With a fathah, to sink. Hence the expression khasafa al-makan (the pla...

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خبر نوعان

Al-khbr nwʿan

Mursal (loose) and Musnad (supported). The Mursal is that which the na...

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كلامُ الجَامع

Al-klamu al-jaamʿ

That the speaker adorns his speech with something from admonitions, or...

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لغْو من اليمين

Al-lghw mn al-ymyn

It is when one swears an oath regarding something while believing it t...

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لحن

Al-lḥn

Disliked in the Quran and the call to prayer, and it is the prolongati...

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مبارأة

Al-mbaraa

With the hamza, and omitting it is an error, it consists of a man sayi...

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مخلب

Al-mkhlb

For a bird, it is like the nail for a human. It is forbidden to consum...

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ملاء الْمُتَشَابه

Al-mlaʾ al-mutashaabh

It was said: it is a body in which matters of differing realities are ...

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منكر منه

Al-mnkr mnh

The hadith narrated by a single man, whose text is not corroborated by...

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منقطع من الحديث

Al-mnqṭʿ mn al-ḥdyth

It is that from which the mention of a single narrator has been omitte...

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مقطوع من الحديث

Al-mqṭwʿ mn al-ḥdyth

That which is narrated from the Successors (tabi'un) as statements and...

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مرفوع من الحديث

Al-mrfwʿ mn al-ḥdyth

What a Companion reports regarding a saying of the Messenger of Allah,...

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مشهور من الحديث

Al-mshhwr mn al-ḥdyth

It is that which originates from solitary narrations (ahad), then beco...

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مسند من الحديث

Al-msnd mn al-ḥdyth

The opposite of al-mursal, it is that whose chain of transmission is c...

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مستور

Al-mstwr

He is the one whose uprightness nor wickedness has become apparent, so...

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مستحب

Al-mstḥb

A name for what has been legislated in addition to obligations and dut...

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مسْح على الْخُفَّيْنِ

Al-msḥ ʿlā al-khufayni

It is permissible according to us based on the well-known Sunna. If it...

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متن

Al-mtn

Of the earth: that which is hard and elevated, and matun matanah: it b...

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مُبَارَاة

Al-mubaaraaa

Emulation and competition, meaning that it competes with her in tracti...

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موقوف من الحديث

Al-mwqwf mn al-ḥdyth

What is narrated from the companions regarding their states and saying...

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معلق من الحديث

Al-mʿlq mn al-ḥdyth

That from which one or more narrators have been omitted from the begin...

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نَّبْطُ

Al-nabṭu

Death....

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نَّفْحُ

Al-nafḥu

Striking and throwing....

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نبي

Al-nby

He to whom it has been revealed through an angel, or who has been insp...

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نجارية

Al-njarya

The followers of Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Najjar. They agree with the...

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نمام

Al-nmam

He who speaks with a group of people and then gossips about them, reve...

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رأس

Al-ras

The famous and highest part of anything is its head. The capital in a ...

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ريح

Al-ryḥ

It is moving air, and it has various causes, for it may be a push from...

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شاذ من الحديث

Al-shadh mn al-ḥdyth

It is that which has a single chain of transmission attested to by a s...

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سلعة

Al-slʿa

With a kasrah on the sin: a gland that appears between the skin and th...

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سنة الشمسية

Al-sna al-shmsya

Three hundred and sixty-five days....

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سقيم

Al-sqym

In hadith terminology, it is the opposite of the authentic (sahih), an...

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تفريد

Al-tfryd

Your standing with the Truth with you, and this is if the Truth is the...

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زَّمَخْشَرِيُّ

Al-zamakhshariyu

The hands of Allah are outstretched, its plural is busut, similar to r...

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زبر

Al-zbr

With damma, the plural of zabur which is the book restricted to ruling...

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عمرية

Al-ʿmrya

Similar to the Wasilites, except that they declared both factions to b...

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عزيز

Al-ʿzyz

That which is narrated uniquely by two or three people among the peopl...

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ضلع

Al-ḍlʿ

It is most often applied to the lines surrounding the square....

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ضعيف من الحديث

Al-ḍʿyf mn al-ḥdyth

That which is of a lower rank than sound (hasan). Its weakness is some...

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حَدِيث السقيم

Al-ḥadiyth al-sqym

The divisions of the hadith are numerous in the foundations of hadith ...

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حديث الصحيح

Al-ḥdyth al-ṣḥyḥ

That whose text is free from stylistic weakness, and its meaning from ...

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حسن من الحديث

Al-ḥsn mn al-ḥdyth

That its narrator is famous for truthfulness and trustworthiness, thou...

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صفي

Al-ṣfy

It is a precious thing that the Prophet, may Allah's prayers and peace...

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صوت

Al-ṣwt

A quality existing in the air which carries it to the ear canal....

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صحيح من الحديث

Al-ṣḥyḥ mn al-ḥdyth

What preceded in the definition of the authentic hadith....

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طِيَرَة

Al-ṭiyaraa

Like al-khyara: a verbal noun derived from tayr, and no other verbal n...

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عبادة الصحيحة

Alabada alshyha

Among the Shafi'is: that which nullifies the ruling. Al-'abd: the huma...

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احتلام

Alahtlam

What the sleeper sees in dreams. A name for what the sleeper sees rega...

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علامة البلوغ

Alama alblwgh

In the Hanafi school: for the boy, wet dreams and emission of fluid. F...

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بادي

Albady

The resident of the badiya (the desert or steppe). In the noble hadith...

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جان

Aljan

Al Jinn. And in the Noble Quran: (And on that Day neither man nor jinn...

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مشهور في الشهادة

Almshhwr fy alshhada

Among the Ibadis: the testimony of the people of the ensemble is three...

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صاحب بالجنب

Alsahb baljnb

(See s-h-b.) Al-junub: the distant one. In the noble Quran: "and she s...

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تحليف

Althlyf

Verbal noun. - In the Majalla (article 1681): it is the imposition of ...

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أمانة

Amana

The opposite of treachery; it is the verbal noun: man was entrusted an...

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أمر بالمعروف

Amr bil-ma'ruf

Guidance to the saving orientations, and forbidding the blameworthy: r...

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عَارِض

Arid

The cloud crossing the sky’s horizon....

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صدقة

As-sadaqa

It is the gift by which one seeks reward from Allah, the Most High....

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صلاة على النبي

As-Salat ala an-Nabi

The saying: "O Allah, exalt Muhammad and the family of Muhammad"....

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سنة

As-sunna

In language: custom. In the Law: a term shared between what issued fro...

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أسكن

Askn

Such a one: he inhabited. The mobile: stopped its movement. A such a o...

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تقوى

At-taqwa

In language: the state of one who shields himself, that is, who takes ...

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أثر

Athar

It has three meanings: the first, consequence, the outcome of the thin...

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أَزْلُ

Azl

Hardness and straitness; one says: the man knew azl, that is, fell int...

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بقاء

Baqa

Lasting; and what it is in the terminology of the way’s masters in wil...

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بصر

Basar

The power lodged in the two hollow nerves that meet then part, reachin...

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بيت

Bayt

In the dwelling, if Allah wills....

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برهَان التطبيق

Brhaan al-tṭbyq

Among the most famous proofs refuting infinite regress. It consists in...

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بُغَاة

Bughat

Plural of baghi, from al-baghy which is injustice; this plural of the ...

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بكاء

Buka

Abundant, coming of grief sometimes and joy sometimes; the difference ...

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ضَمَان الدَّرك

Daman ad-darak

Returning the price to the buyer when the sold thing falls due, saying...

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فَضِيلَة

Fadila

The non-transitive excellence, that is, the excellence whose realizati...

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فالضابطة

Fal-ḍabṭa

In the extraction of the unknown using the rule of three in matters re...

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غَفْلة

Ghafla

That is, they were heedless of guarding their station and of facing th...

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غاية

Ghaya

That for whose sake the thing exists....

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حديث القدسي

Hadith qudsi

As to the meaning, it is from Allah; as to the...

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هَدي

Hady

What is brought of the flocks to the sanctuary for slaughter....

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حسب

Hasab

What man counts of his own glory and his fathers’....

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حَوْض

Hawd

Two basins, small and great. The small basin: what is below ten cubits...

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إعادة

I'ada

In the performance....

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إحياء الأرض الموات

Ihya alard almwat

According to the majority of jurists: that a person goes to a land no ...

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إِمَامَة

Imama

The Prophet’s inheritance: one chooses for it who most resembles him i...

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استِنْجاء

Istinja

From najw; and in the whole of the tongue, najw is what issues from th...

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اسْتِنْثار

Istinthat

Istinchak: drawing into the nose what is in it by breath. Proof it is ...

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إِيصَاء

Iysa

(Executing a bequest.) He bequeathing Zayd, Zayd accepting the bequest...

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جَائِفَة

Ja'ifa

Per al-Idah, it embraces the cavity of chest, back, belly and neck. Th...

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جبروت

Jabarut

With Abou Talib al-Makki: the world of might, meaning the divine names...

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جَلَال

Jalal

Greatness....

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جمال

Jamal

And the comely is the aptness of organs. Jaml is, among attributes, wh...

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جرس

Jars

The summarizing of divine address arriving upon the heart with a form ...

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جهة الكعبة

Jha alkaba

In terminology: The direction of the Sacred House, and its airspace ex...

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جناية

Jinaya

Every forbidden act involving harm to the person or to other than her....

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كبيرة

Kabira

It is what is purely unlawful, with purely prescribed punishment by de...

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كَلُّ

Kall

The orphan and he with dependants; hence the hadith: « whoever leaves ...

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كشف

Kashf

Lexically: lifting the veil. As a term: the survey of what is behind t...

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خاتم

Khatam

With fatha of the ta, with two dots, or kasra: that with which one sea...

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خوارج

Khawarij

Those who take the tithe without the sultan’s leave....

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خدر

Khudr

A side of the house where a curtain is left, where the free maiden dwe...

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لَيْلَة الْقدر

Laylat al-Qadr

The best of the year’s nights and most noble: Allah especially granted...

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لذلك نقول

Ldhlk nqwl

The language that we use today in writing, composition, and literature...

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علم الحَدِيث

ʿlm al-ḥadiyth

Tracing the sayings of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be ...

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علمه تَعَالَى شَامِل

ʿlmh taʿaal-aā shaamil

That is, concerning possible things and impossible things. Therefore, ...

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محال

Mahal

What whose existence outward is impossible, as motion and rest joining...

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مندوب

Mandub

He over whom one cries in mourning with « ya » or « wa ». Among the fa...

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مَنْسُوخ

Mansukh

Of an-naskh, tongue of removal and transfer. In the Law: a legal argum...

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مسجد الحرام

Masjid al-haram

The Sacred Mosque was so named for its surroundings’ inviolability: it...

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مَوْقُوف

Mawquf

Among the masters of arabism: the word one halts upon, that is, which ...

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ملة

Milla

It is the revealed law, in that it inclines, or in that a community ga...

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مبتدع

Mubtadi

Passive name: what is not preceded by matter nor duration. Active name...

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مجتهد

Mujtahid

He who possesses the knowledge of the Book and the faces of its meanin...

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مؤمن

Mumin

He who attests Allah, His messenger and what he brought....

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مرسل

Mursal

In hadith: what a Follower or the Follower’s Follower relates to the P...

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مسند

Musnad

Name of asanda, verb or report, single word or sentence. The mousnad a...

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نَّعْلُ

Nal

Feminine: what is worn for walking, today called tasouma; described si...

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نسبة

Nisba

The establishing of connection between two things....

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قصر

Qasr

Lexically: retention; one says: I qasr’d the milch beast for my horse,...

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قوم

Qawm

Originally, verbal noun of qama yaqoumou: qualified by it, an embracin...

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قيام الليل

Qiyam al-layl

Qiyam al-layl’s principle: applying to night-occupation by prayer with...

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قدرة الميسرة

Qudrat al-maysara

What makes ease binding upon performance; it exceeds the possible capa...

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رقم

Raqm

With ’ayn sukun: writing; with its fatha: what the sages of India esta...

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صحابي

Sahabi

By usage: he who saw the Prophet and whose company with him lasted, ev...

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سند

Sanad

That upon which the prohibition is founded, that which validates it, w...

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شهادة

Shahada

In the Law: informing of eye-witness in the words of testimony in the ...

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شيء

Shay'

In the tongue: what can be known and reported of, by Sibawayh’s accoun...

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شركة الأبدان

Shrka alabdan

Originally: partnership of bodies. The letter ba was deleted, then the...

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شُّبْهَة فِي الْمحل

Shubha fi al-mahall

A doubt arising from an argument excluding in itself the prohibition i...

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شفعة

Shuf'a

It is the compulsory taking of the share, against indemnity, for him h...

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شُّحُّ

Shuhh

Avarice’s extreme: the farthest of withholding among avarice. Said: av...

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سن

Sinn

With sin kasra and noun strengthening: flow, a tooth, and age; plural ...

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تَّأْلِيف

Ta'lif

It is joining the proportionate things, from alifa, intimacy; real in ...

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تعقيب

Ta'qib

Doing the thing after the thing, returning to its tongue-sense....

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تَّابِعِيّ

Tabii

Every upright Muslim who met a Companion....

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تَّحْلِيل

Tahlil

(Of rendering one distinct.) Among the people of calculation: the oper...

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تنقيح

Tanqih

Shortening the wording while the meaning stays clear....

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تنزيل

Tanzil

The Quran’s appearing by need, through Jibril, upon the Prophet’s hear...

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تعريض

Tarid

Among the scholars of sarf: making the object presented to the essence...

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تسلسل

Tasalsul

It is infinite matters’ ordering; its kinds four: being not hidden; ei...

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تشبيه

Tashbih

Lexically: indicating one thing’s sharing with another in a meaning: t...

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ثناء

Thana

Recalling good by tongue; but in hamd’s definition the tongue cut, det...

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ثنايا

Thanaya

Plural of thaniyya: (four teeth, two below two above). The two incisor...

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ثني

Thani

Son of five years of camels, son of two years of cows, son of one year...

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تسنن

Tsnn

Against his enemy: he went straight ahead. And: he adopted the sunna a...

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تصنيع البلاد

Tsnya alblad

Making the country an "industrial" one according to a studied plan (in...

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تعلقات علم الْوَاجِب تَعَالَى

Tʿlqat ʿlm al-waajib taʿaal-aā

They are of two kinds: one is eternal, and the other is contingent. Th...

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وَاعْلَم

Waaʿlam

Know that the first of the four proportional numbers used in transacti...

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وكالة

Wakala

With fatha or kasra of the waw: name of the mandate, which is keeping ...

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والمنسوخ

Wal-mnswkh

In the report of the Prophet (peace upon him) as well, the naskh is di...

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والضابطة

Wal-ḍabṭa

In its extraction and inquiry, the unknown is either one of the two ex...

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يمين الصبر

Ymyn alsbr

According to the Hanafis, Shafiis, and Zaidis: it is the oath that a p...

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