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

The plural of ’asib, as talaba and toullab, fajira and foujjara, zalim...

عام السنة

The year of drought, famine and aridity....

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

The poet: he brought forth badi' (rhetorical embellishment). Someone: ...

Property: the zakat becomes obligatory upon it because it reaches the ...

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

أهل الأهواء

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

أهل الديوان

They are the soldiers whose names were inscribed in the diwan; this is...

أهل الحق

The people who have attached themselves to what is the truth with thei...

أهل البيت

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

أهل الذمة

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

Ajma'a the people: they agreed. In the Noble Quran: 'And when they con...

Al of the thing: its essence; in the hadith: « given a pipe of the Daw...

أَجْرَعُ

A wide place containing ruggedness and roughness....

أَنْكَاسُ

Plural of niks, with kasra: the weak man....

أَرْبَعَة المتناسبة

Al-aarbaʿaa al-mtnasba

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

Weariness and toil....

It is the continuation of existence through endless measured durations...

In language: announcement in general. In the Law: informing of the ent...

It is treachery in a thing entrusted. Al-Shafi'i said: 'if one betraye...

Linguistically: the exertion of one's utmost effort; technically: the ...

It is the taking from the hand openly and with speed....

The saying of the speaker to the one beneath him: do....

Meaning the Ansar (supporters) of the Prophet, peace and blessings of ...

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

In language: making another carry the recitation; one says he made ano...

Linguistically: the seeking of the qabas, the ember from fire; borrowe...

It is said: 'al-rabi'' is the small stream, and its plural is 'al-arba...

Plural of sharab: every thin liquid that is drunk and cannot be chewed...

It is the state of a line whose assumed parts coincide with one anothe...

The exclusion of a thing from a thing: were it not for the exclusion, ...

Shaving the pubic region. Abu 'Ubayd said: we hold that the origin of ...

In language: reckoning a thing good and holding it beautiful. In techn...

أُخْدُودُ

The trench in the earth; plural: akhadid....

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

In language it is the act of remaining and confinement (al-ihtibas). I...

It is to cast one side of one's cloak over the left shoulder, bring it...

Exerting the soul in good deeds....

It is that upon which something else is built....

Plural of sanam. The sanam: it has been said it is the idol (wathan) s...

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

بَخْتَرِيّ

One who struts as he walks: the gait of the arrogant man infatuated wi...

Hasty, wide-spaced sewing....

بَوَائِج

Calamities (dawahi), plural of ba'ija....

The span between the two palms when the arms are stretched right and l...

The brave; batula is said with damma: batala and butula....

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

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

برهان التطبيقي

Al-brhan al-tṭbyqy

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

A huge oblong stone, to which the she-camel's head was likened....

It denotes the speaker's making manifest to the listener what he inten...

It is a copious portion of wealth set aside for trade and handed over ...

دَّاخِرُ

The abased, humiliated one....

An arabized word: the sixth of a dirham; among the Greeks it is a caro...

Concealing beneath layers of earth. 'Dafantu l-hadith': I concealed it...

Dread; it means: let them not know you by yourself, and walk in stealt...

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

The produce of camels and what is benefited from them; it was called d...

دعوة التامة

Al-dʿwa al-tama

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

Much wealth. One says: 'fani'a yafna'u fana'an'; he is fani' and fani'...

What is in the kernel's cleft; it is also said: what is twisted betwee...

فِدْية وَقِيلَ

Al-fidya waqiyla

The obligatory duty (farida). As-sarf (exchange): repentance. It has b...

The origin of farz: certainty and determination; and the fariida, on t...

فُرْطَة بِالضَّمِّ

Al-furṭaa bial-ḍami

A noun for going out and going ahead; with fatha: the single instance....

فيض الأقدس

Al-fyḍ al-aqds

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

The innate constitution prepared to receive the religion....

غَالِيَة

A kind of perfume compounded of musk, ambergris, aloeswood and oil, we...

The she-camel whose teats are sunken and whose milk is scanty. It is a...

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

Plural of ghar, the cave; the waw turned to ya' because of the kasra o...

غريب من الحديث

Al-ghryb mn al-ḥdyth

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

The camels' plague, rarely escaped; one says: the camel agadda, so it ...

In the language: to take a thing wrongfully, whether wealth or other. ...

هَبَلَّعُ

The big eater. It has been said: the ha is extra, so that it would be ...

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

Plural of hama, the crown of the head. 'Maqiluhu': its place, borrowed...

هَنْبَثَةُ

Singular of hanabith, namely harsh, conflicting things. Al-hanbatha: c...

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

Severe beating with wood or other....

In language: liberality; in the Law: transferring ownership of a thing...

One of the modes of walking, between walking and running; in the hadit...

Speaking with calm and quiet....

اخْتِلَاطُ

Al-iakhtilaaṭu

That is, that some enter into others....

It is a torpor not original, without narcotic, that removes the workin...

إِمْر بِالْكَسْرِ

Al-iimr bial-kasri

The great, dreadful matter. It has been said: self-admiration....

إِشْعَار

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

إِعْلَاق

The treatment of an infant's 'udhra (throat ailment): a pain in his th...

Stating speech in a manner that admits multiple possibilities; specifi...

إمامة الكبرى

Al-imama al-kbrā

Al-imama: the masdar of 'amma l-qawma' and 'amma bihim': when one has ...

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

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

Pressing the buttocks to the ground, erecting the shins, and placing t...

What appears of the wonders of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upo...

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

Relating one of the two parts (of speech) to the other; broader than y...

It is the oath to forgo intercourse with one's wife for a period, as i...

A reciprocal relation such that neither is conceived without the other...

Thumam grass; its singular is jalila. It has been said: it is the thum...

جَلْعَدُ

The hard, very sturdy one....

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

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

Alarm and fear....

جائِزَةُ

Sign of the compensation....

In language: the calamity that ravages wealth, drought or civil strife...

جَحَاجِحَة

Al-jaḥaajiḥaa

Plural of jahjah, the noble master; the ha in it reinforces the plural...

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

Water stagnating in a place....

It is the derangement of the intellect such that it prevents actions a...

جُنَهِىُّ

The reed (khayzuran). It is transmitted: 'fi kaffihi khayzuran' (in hi...

Fine dust. And at-tahin: ground; a fa'il form with the meaning of maf'...

He who tells of future events and claims knowledge of the secrets and ...

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

The treacherous; taken from 'khana yakhunuhu khiyana': he betrayed him...

An utterance free of the enunciative operators, predicated of what pre...

خبر نوعان

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

خِلَاصُ بالكَسْر

Al-khilaaṣu bal-kasr

What the fire has refined of gold or other; likewise al-khulasa, with ...

In language: masdar of 'khalafa yakhlufulu khalafatan': to be left aft...

Sticky clay and mud....

The state, the matter and the circumstance....

Snatching a thing and taking it swiftly; one says 'khatifa l-shay'a ya...

Of tightly gathered build. 'Akla'azza': when it contracted and gathere...

Of gathered, strong flesh. Every dense gathering. It is transmitted wi...

What contains two words by predication (isnad)....

كلامُ الجَامع

Al-klamu al-jaamʿ

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

God Most High's discourse relating to the demand to refrain from the a...

In Qur'anic usage it embraces the cold celestial body drawing its ligh...

لَّاحِقة

The pronoun (attached)....

The party and the band, from iltifaf; its plural is alfaf. It means: t...

لغْو من اليمين

Al-lghw mn al-ymyn

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

لُّمظة بالضَّم

Al-lumẓa bal-ḍam

Like the nuqta (mole): a mark of white. From it 'faras almaz' (an alma...

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

A masdar derived from treachery; the mim is extra....

مَكْثُور

The vanquished: one against whom people multiplied and overcame. One s...

مَلَاذَةُ

Masdar of 'maladha': maladhan and maladhata. Al-maludh and al-maladh: ...

مَرَاسِيلُ

Plural of mirsal: the swift of gait....

مَرْوَحَةُ بالْفتح

Al-marwaḥaau bal-ftḥ

The place through which the wind passes: this is the intended sense; w...

مَعْفُور

One covered and dusted with dust....

That the time of the adhan became unclear to him and he was bewildered...

Linguistic definition: a reciprocal term derived from innocence, signi...

A partnership of equals in property, disposal and debt....

مِذْلَاقَةُ

The she-camel swift of gait....

The people's chief and orator, the one who speaks on their behalf, and...

What crosses over and passes from its coined locus to something else, ...

It is that whose intended meaning is hidden, such that it cannot be gr...

The sharecropping of land for the third or the quarter....

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

ملاء الْمُتَشَابه

Al-mlaʾ al-mutashaabh

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

منكر منه

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

منقطع من الحديث

Al-mnqṭʿ mn al-ḥdyth

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

It is continuous magnitude; it differs from bodily and qualitative for...

مقطوع من الحديث

Al-mqṭwʿ mn al-ḥdyth

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

مرفوع من الحديث

Al-mrfwʿ mn al-ḥdyth

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

مشهور من الحديث

Al-mshhwr mn al-ḥdyth

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

مشعر الحرام

Al-mshʿr al-ḥram

With fatha of the mim, al-Jawhari said: and with kasra of the mim in d...

مسند من الحديث

Al-msnd mn al-ḥdyth

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

The place where the deposit (wadi'a) is placed. One says: she entruste...

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

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

مسْح على الْخُفَّيْنِ

Al-msḥ ʿlā al-khufayni

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

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

It is the report (khabar) established on the tongues of a people whose...

مُبَارَاة

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

موقوف من الحديث

Al-mwqwf mn al-ḥdyth

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

With kasra and the unaspirated ha: jesting that harms not the addresse...

معلق من الحديث

Al-mʿlq mn al-ḥdyth

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

What is intended by it is secured against substitution and change, tha...

What the fighter is given over and above, that is, what is granted him...

Striking and throwing....

The voice's rising; the voice naqa'a and istanqa'a, when it rose....

نَّصِيحَةُ

Al-naṣiyḥaau

A word by which a whole is expressed: willing good to the one counsele...

The information. Sibawayh said: none of the Arabs refrains from saying...

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

Making the specific permitted act obligatory upon oneself, out of vene...

It is the subtle vaporous (bukhari) substance bearing the power of lif...

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

Linguistically: joining and gathering. In the Law: a contract for the ...

Plural of nakida, she of whom no young survives....

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

Plural of nitaq: mountains lying in tiers, that is, flanks and middle ...

In the vagina: a bar preventing the passage of the penis: a thick glan...

قَصْمة بِالْفَتْحِ

Al-qaṣma bial-fatḥi

The degree; it is so named because it is a breaking (kasra), from al-q...

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

رَّيْحَانُ

It is applied to mercy, provision and repose; the child was named rayh...

Wine, because its drinker relaxes (irtaha): that is, grows open-handed...

The male of the sons of Adam who has passed the limit of childhood by ...

A human being sent by God to creation to convey the rulings....

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

In language: covering the distance. In law: going out with the intent ...

What is contrary to the analogy (qiyas), without regard to the scarcit...

شاذ من الحديث

Al-shadh mn al-ḥdyth

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

Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf, may Allah have mercy on them; naming Abu Han...

It is what is concealed: the inner secret (sarrira), intercourse, reme...

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

سنة القمرية

Al-sna al-qmrya

Three hundred and fifty-four days and a third of a day, so that the so...

سنة الشمسية

Al-sna al-shmsya

Three hundred and sixty-five days....

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

In language: prevention and the covering of a thing. In the hadith: 'G...

تَّمَنِّي

Falsehood; a tafa''ala form from 'mana yamni' (he estimated), when he ...

تَّسْبِيح

When it is intended to mean glorification (tanzih) and pure remembranc...

Linguistically: turning back. In the Law: diverting the verse from its...

تَّعْفِير

When they harvested the palm's dates, they left it forty days without ...

The calf in its first year: it is called tabi', because it follows its...

It is the spiritual subtle essence (latifa ruhaniyya); it may also be ...

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

That, when he sees the success of matters coming from Allah, he cuts o...

It is extracting what is between the teeth of debris by means of the k...

It is giving an ugly thing the appearance of a beautiful one, as givin...

Linguistically: al-tahjir or al-ihtijar. Technically: placing markers ...

In the language: to remove the sickness from the sick. In terminology:...

وَاحِدَةُ

A'ram; it has also been said: 'arim....

A vein in the neck; it is also the cord; it was annexed to itself beca...

With full vowelling (tahrik): the singular of awda, the veins surround...

To strike with the hand or with the knife; one says 'I struck him in t...

With fatha: in language, the odd of number, what has not been paired b...

It is holding a thing in oneself....

What rises above everything; and the application of yafa' to people is...

زَّمَخْشَرِيُّ

Al-zamakhshariyu

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

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

Falsehood; it is derived from 'tazwir al-suwar' (retouching pictures),...

It is a section of the Quran whose parts connect one to another until ...

A term coined with a single coinage for an unbounded multitude, embrac...

Camels (alwa) hard in disposition, likened to the twisted horn....

A settled mastery enabling avoidance of sins while having the ability ...

With kasra of the 'ayn: used for sensibles; with fatha: for meanings; ...

With damma and sukun of the mim: it is the ihram, the circumambulation...

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

With damma, in the extended sense: it is the dower of the like (mahr a...

The existent that needs, in order to exist, a locus, that is, a substr...

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

That with which one binds; 'asaba ra'sa-hu wa 'asibu-hu ta'siban': he ...

ضِّنْء بِالْكَسْرِ

Al-ḍinʾ bial-kasri

The origin. One says: 'so-and-so is in the din' of truthfulness,' and ...

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

ضعيف من الحديث

Al-ḍʿyf mn al-ḥdyth

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

Al-hadith (the new); hence: 'beware of innovation (al-hadath) in Islam...

حَدِيث السقيم

Al-ḥadiyth al-sqym

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

The miser; al-'aqis: the twisted one of harsh character....

The mind's swift passing from premises to conclusions; fikr (discursiv...

حديث الصحيح

Al-ḥdyth al-ṣḥyḥ

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

That which indicates a meaning residing in something other than itself...

حسن من الحديث

Al-ḥsn mn al-ḥdyth

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

It derives from at-tahawwul meaning transfer; in the Law: transferring...

'Hawala ash-shay'': he changed it. To move it from one place to anothe...

صَّمْعَاء

The plant (baqla) that has drunk and become laden with water....

A verbal noun (masdar): 'sada-hu' (he hunted it) when he took it; he i...

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

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

صحيح من الحديث

Al-ṣḥyḥ mn al-ḥdyth

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

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

That by which one may reach, with sound examination, the sought end; i...

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

علامة البلوغ

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

عرضة الأخيرة

Alarda alakhyra

It is that by which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) revi...

Al-ithm (sin). Sin's recompense; in the Qur'an: 'those who call not up...

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

فجر الصادق

The true dawn (al-fajr as-sadiq): the whiteness that crosses the horiz...

Al-hiyad: the blood of menstruation. Al-hayd: the flow of blood from t...

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

مشهور في الشهادة

Almshhwr fy alshhada

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

صاحب بالجنب

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

سبع المثاني

al-Fatiha; in the noble hadith: "Praise be to Allah, Lord of the world...

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

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

أمر بالمعروف

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

'Anu': he submitted, was humbled; in the Qur'an: 'faces are humbled ('...

عند المحدثين

'Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, 'Abd Allah...

عند النحاة

With the grammarians: Sibawayh's Kitab; contrary to the dual and the p...

Be in the finest attire and appearance, so that you may be visible to ...

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

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

صلاة على النبي

As-Salat ala an-Nabi

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

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

The thing: he laid down its way (shara'ahu). Sharra'a: intensive of sh...

Asjada the man: to bow his head and bend. As-sajadah: the cushion; the...

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

Askarah the drink: to remove the drinker's reason. Sakkarah: to carry ...

The wiser; the mention of the more important, as a rebuke to the speak...

Istabaqu towards this: to race against one another. In the Noble Quran...

Istahra the cock: to crow in the last part of the night (sahar). As-ha...

To deem it good (istahsana): to consider it fine. Al-ihsan: bestowing ...

Such a one: to ask him to feed one. In the Quran: [al-Kahf, 77: 'So th...

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

The thing: to go behind it and seek it. One says: "follow the imam": t...

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

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

أصحاب الحديث

Aṣḥab al-ḥdyth

The jurists of the hadith scholars (muhaddithun), such as Ahmad ibn Ha...

Sawwara (with shadda): wealth, and twisting; he is aswar, she is sawra...

Hadith terms - letter B

8 terms

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

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

His wife 'mubasharatan': to have intercourse with her; 'basharan': to ...

In the dwelling, if Allah wills....

برهَان التطبيق

Brhaan al-tṭbyq

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

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

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

بيع الحصاة

Byʿ al-ḥṣaa

It is the sale by throwing the pebble; it was known in the age of igno...

Hadith terms - letter D

3 terms

ضَمَان الدَّرك

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

With dana and dinanatan: to submit and humble oneself; of this the nob...

Darra fulanan (midarratan and diraran): he harmed him. In the generous...

Hadith terms - letter F

2 terms

فَضِيلَة

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

فالضابطة

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

Hadith terms - letter G

2 terms

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

That for whose sake the thing exists....

Hadith terms - letter H

7 terms

حديث القدسي

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

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

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

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

حبل الله

The Quran. In the Noble Book: 'And hold fast, all together, to the rop...

حبل الوريد

The jugular vein (habl al-warid): a vein in the neck. In the Noble Qur...

حرف الفاء

A fta in a matter: to make clear its ruling. In the noble hadith: 'Sin...

Hadith terms - letter I

5 terms

In the performance....

إِمَامَة

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

استِنْجاء

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

اسْتِنْثار

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

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

Hadith terms - letter J

8 terms

جَائِفَة

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

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

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

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

جهة الكعبة

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

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

To suffice (jaza) for a thing as a jaza': to be enough for someone and...

Hadith terms - letter K

12 terms

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

The maiden, in the form ka'uban: her breasts begin to rise; she is the...

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

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

Khada'a someone, in mukhad'ah or khida'an: to deceive him. In the Nobl...

Against (with 'inda), in contravention (khilafan): to contravene. To t...

Khamara behind it: to cover oneself. Khamara the thing: to ply it and ...

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

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

خبر الْوَاحِد

Khbr al-waaḥid

It is the hadith related by one, or two and more, so long as it has no...

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

The water, in the form kudran: its clearness has gone; it is then kadi...

Hadith terms - letter L

4 terms

The garment, in the form lifqan: to join one of its two pieces to the ...

لَيْلَة الْقدر

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

علم الحَدِيث

ʿlm al-ḥadiyth

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

علمه تَعَالَى شَامِل

ʿlmh taʿaal-aā shaamil

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

Hadith terms - letter M

14 terms

It is food prepared for an invitation; in the hadith: "This Book is Al...

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

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

مَنْسُوخ

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

مسجد الحرام

Masjid al-haram

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

مَوْقُوف

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

مدمن الْخمر

One habitually given to drinking it; and whoever drinks wine intending...

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

The thing: its substance, its order, and what it rests upon; in the no...

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

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

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

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

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

Hadith terms - letter N

4 terms

In language: addition, surplus. In terminology: synonymous with the ma...

To shrink from the matter, in the form nukulan: to be cowardly and ret...

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

The establishing of connection between two things....

Hadith terms - letter Q

8 terms

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

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

قضاء الاستحقاق

The judgment of establishing the right (qada' al-istihqaq). In the Mej...

In language: justice (al-'adl) and injustice (al-jawr); the word is th...

قيام الليل

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

The book, in the forms qira'a and qir'an: to follow its words with the...

قدرة الميسرة

Qudrat al-maysara

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

In the form qunutan: to obey Allah the Most High, submit to Him and ac...

Hadith terms - letter R

3 terms

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

رأس الشهر

The first day of the month; and the head of the year is its first day....

Raba the child: to rear and raise him. Raba the thing: to make it grow...

Hadith terms - letter S

17 terms

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

Salahhahu, in musalakah or sulhan: to make peace with him, be on good ...

Lexically: what faces you of the mountain rising above the slope; plur...

Sinha the food or drink: to see it alter and turn mouldy. Sinha the pa...

'The thing, masaqatan or siqatan': to make it fall. 'So-and-so with so...

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

Shatana the house, in shatunan: to be distant from it. Shatana the bea...

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

شركة الأبدان

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

شُّبْهَة فِي الْمحل

Shubha fi al-mahall

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

شُبْهَة الْملك

That the one having intercourse believe the woman he possesses is his ...

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

Avarice with greed, that in what is habitual. Abou al-Baqa’ said: avar...

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

صلاة الرغائب

It is prayed on the first Friday night of Rajab, and it is not establi...

سنة الآحاد

According to the majority (jumhur): it is the report whose transmitter...

صيد البر

(See the root sad ya dal.) Al-burr (with damma): the wheat grain; its ...

Hadith terms - letter T

16 terms

تَّأْلِيف

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

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

تَّابِعِيّ

Every upright Muslim who met a Companion....

تَّحْلِيل

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

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

With it: he grew familiar. The hunting falcon: it roved its eye seekin...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tarahama the people: to show mercy to one another. Ar-rahim: the place...

تعلقات علم الْوَاجِب تَعَالَى

Tʿlqat ʿlm al-waajib taʿaal-aā

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

Hadith terms - letter W

6 terms

وَاعْلَم

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

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

والمنسوخ

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

والضابطة

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

Such a one the property, and 'of him' and 'after him', in the forms wa...

The pus in the belly, in the form wariyan: to corrupt it. In the noble...

Hadith terms - letter Y

3 terms

The name of Medina the Illumined, to which the Prophet Muhammad (peace...

يمين الصبر

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

يوم التروية

It is the eighth day of Dhu al-Hijja; the reason for its being so name...

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إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَمَلَٰٓئِكَتَهُۥ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى ٱلنَّبِىِّ ۚ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ صَلُّوا۟ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا۟ تَسْلِيمًا

God and His angels shower their blessings on the Prophet. O believers, you should also send your blessings on him, and salute him with a worthy greeting.

Al-Ahzab 33:56

Blessings on the Prophet ﷺ