What does Khatam mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Khatam (خاتم) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Khatam

Khatam according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

With fatha of the ta, with two dots, or kasra: that with which one seals, in Persian enkechtari. Related from the walkers’ intimate, Anas ibn Malik: the Prophet’s ring was of silver and its stone Abyssinian. Related of him too that the engraving of the Prophet’s ring was: Mouhammad on a line, rasoul on a line, Allah on a line. Related of him also that he removed his ring when entering the privy.

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

The seal and the mark, for warding off ills and calamities. The khatam of the book: what keeps it and bars onlookers from its inward; in the hadith: « amine, seal of the Lord of the worlds upon His believing servants ».

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

What is laid on the wound’s surface, a crust shielding it from ills.

Khatam according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

By which the dinar and dirham are designated; hence the hadith: « dirhams and dinars are Allah’s seals on earth » (at-Tabarani in al-Awsat from Abou Hourayra: « whoever comes with his master’s seal, his need is met »). And the widow; from Boukhari’s hadith of the three sheltered in the cave, and the woman’s word: fear Allah and take not the seal off but rightfully.

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