What does Ja'ifa mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Ja'ifa (جَائِفَة) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Ja'ifa

Ja'ifa according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

Per al-Idah, it embraces the cavity of chest, back, belly and neck. The neck’s cavity is where the fast breaks at water’s arrival, what is above being no cavity for it. In al-Jawahir, the ja’ifa is specified by what excludes the neck: chest, back and belly. In al-Kafi, it is specified by the head’s and belly’s cavity. Ja’ifa being mentioned after the ’amma in Kanz ad-Daqa’iq, book of offences, chapter of wounds, rests on the meant being other than the ’amma.

Ja'ifa according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

It is the wound reaching the cavity. Abou Oubayda said: it may be that touching the cavity as that penetrating it. I wounded a ja’ifa and made ja’ifa: the wound reached the cavity. Said: that reaching the cavity, of belly, back, collar or however.

Ja'ifa according to Mu'jam Lughat al-Fuqaha

The wound piercing the rib cage, the belly’s wall or the back’s bones, penetrating the cavity. Thrust, deep wound. Al-jourmouq: with damma of jim and mim, arabized Persian, worn over the shoe guarding from water or…

Ja'ifa according to At-Ta'rifat al-Fiqhiyya (Al-Barkati)

It is a wound embracing the cavity of chest, back, belly and neck.

Ja'ifa according to Al-Qamus al-Fiqhi

The great defect. The wound reaching the cavity. That touching the cavity. That penetrating. Among the Malikites: that reaching the cavity, specified by belly and back; and: what issued to the cavity, though by a needle’s point. Among the Hanafis: that reaching the cavity or piercing it; what runs from uvula to pubis, not in neck, throat, thigh or legs; and: specified by the cavity, of head or belly. Among the Shafi’ites: a wound penetrating an inner cavity, carrying food or medicine, or the carrier’s way, as belly, chest, collar and the two flanks. Among the Hanbalites and Zaydites: what reached an organ’s cavity: back, chest, hip, neck or leg, or arm, of what has cavity. Among the Zahirites: that which penetrated the cavity. Among the Ja’farites: that reaching the cavity. Among the Ibadites: what reached the cavity, the belly, though by a needle’s head, or the wound’s enlarging, or from any side. Al-jawf: the privy; then used of what admits fullness and emptiness: said the house’s cavity for its inward. It runs from throat to bladder; in the noble hadith: « forget not the cavity and what it holds », that is, what enters of food and drink and gathers therein.

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