ḍarar

evil, sin

ضَرَر

Word

Noun · pattern فَعَل

Root

ض ر ر

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67- باب كراهية تمني الموت بسبب ضرر نزل بِهِ وَلاَ بأس بِهِ لخوف الفتنة في الدين

Riyad al-Salihin, page 186 →

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Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • ضَرَّهُ Form I He, or it, harmed, injured, hurt, marred, mischiefed, or damaged, him, or it
    , (S, A, Msb, K,) and ضَرَّ بِهِ, (K,) aor. , (Msb,) inf. n. ضَرٌّ; (S, Msb, K;) and ↓ ضارّهُ, [which see also below,] (S, A, Msb, K,) inf. n. مُضَارَّةٌ (Msb, K) and ضِرَارٌ; (A, Msb, K;) and ↓ اضرّهُ, (K,) or بِهِ ↓ اضرّ, (Msb,) or both, inf. n. إِضْرَارٌ; (TA;) He, or it, harmed, injured, hurt, marred, mischiefed, or damaged, him, or it; contr. of نَفَعَهُ; (S, A, K;) did to him, or it, an act that was evil, or disliked, or hated. (Msb.) ― -b2- ضَرَّهُ إِلَيْهِ: see 8. ― -b3- لَا يَضُرَّكَ عَلَيْهِ جَمَلٌ (tropical:) No camel will be more sufficient for thee than he; syn. لَا يَزِيدُكَ: and لَا يَضُرُّكَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ (tropical:) [No man will be more sufficient for thee than he; or] thou wilt not find a man who will be more sufficient for thee than he; i. e. لَا تَجِدُ رَجُلًا يَزِيدُكَ عَلَى مَا عِنْدَ هٰذَا الرَّجُلِ مِنَ الكِفَايَةِ: (ISk, S:) and مَا يَضُرُّكَ عَلَى الضَّبِّ صَيْدٌ (tropical:) No animal that is hunted is more sufficient for thee than the ضَبّ; and so مَا يَضِيرُكَ: and مَا تَضُرُّكَ عَلَيْهَا جَارِيَةٌ (tropical:) No girl, or young woman, is more sufficient for thee than she; syn. مَا تَزِيدُكَ: (A:) and مَا يَضُرُّكَ عَلَيْهِ شَيْيأًا (tropical:) He, or it, is not at all more sufficient for thee than he, or it; syn. مَا يَزِيدُكَ. (IAar, TA.) -A2- ضَرَّ, [sec. pers. app. ضَرُرْتَ, and aor. يَضُرُّ,] inf. n. ضَرَارَةٌ, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, blind: part. n. ضَرِيرٌ [q. v.]. (MA.)
  • ضارّهُ Form III He harmed him, injured him, or hurt him, in return, or in requital
    , inf. n. مُضَارَّةٌ and ضَرَارٌ, He harmed him, injured him, or hurt him, in return, or in requital: whence the saying in a trad., لا ضَرَرَ وَلَا ضِرَارَ فِى الإِسْلَامِ There shall be no harming, injuring, or hurting, of one man by another, in the first instance, nor in return, or requital, in El-Islám: (Mgh, TA: *) ضِرَارٌ is syn. with مُضَارَّةٌ: (S:) or, accord. to some, it is syn. with ضَرَرٌ; and in the phrase in a trad. mentioned above, is added as a corroborative. (TA.) See also 1. مُضَارَّةٌ in the case of a testament is the not executing it; or the violating it in part; or the bequeathing to any unfit person or persons; and the like; contrary to the سُنَّة. (TA.) ― -b2- He disagreed with, or differed from, him; dissented from him; was contrary, opposed, or repugnant, to him; or he acted contrarily, contrariously, adversely, or in opposition, to him; syn. خالَفَهُ. (K.) And hence, accord. to some, the saying in a trad., (O, K,) relating to the seeing God on the day of resurrection, (O,) لَا تُضَارُّونَ فِى رُوأْيَتِهِ, (O, K,) i. e. Ye will not differ, one from another, nor dispute together, respecting the truth of the seeing Him; (Zj, O, * TA;) because of his manifest appearance: (Zj, TA:) or the meaning is, لَا تُضَامُّونَ, (S, K,) and thus some relate it, (TA,) meaning ye will not draw yourselves together, (K, TA,) and straiten one another; one saying to another “ Show me Him, ” like as people do in looking at the new moon, but each will by himself have the sight of Him: (TA:) or, as some say, it is ↓ لَا تَضَارُّونَ [originally تَتَضَارُّونَ], meaning لَا تَضَامُّونَ, [which is the same in signification as لَا تُضَامُّونَ], i. e. with fet-h to the ت: (TA, and so in one of my copies of the S:) and some say, لا تُضَارُونَ, from الضَّيْرُ; (Mgh, TA;) [i. e. ye will not be hurt;] meaning ye will not hurt one another: (M in art. ضير:) and some, لَا تُضَامُون, from الضَّيْمُ. (Mgh, TA.) ― -b3- See also 4; and the phrase تَزَوَّجَ عَلَى مُضَارَّةٍ, voce ضِرٌّ.
  • 4 Form IV He compelled him against his will to do the thing
    : see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- اضرّهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ He compelled him against his will to do the thing. (Sgh, K.) [See also 8.] -A2- اضرّ, intrans., (tropical:) It (anything) approached so near as to harm, injure, or hurt; (TA;) or so near as to straighten, or incommode. (L.) You say, اضرّ بِهِ, meaning (tropical:) It approached very near to him, so as to annoy him: (TA, from a trad.:) or (tropical:) he drew very near to him: (S, A:) or (tropical:) he clave, or stuck, to him. (A.) And اضرّ بِالطَّرِيق (tropical:) He approached the road, but was not upon it. (TA.) And بَنُو فُلَانٍ يُضِرُّ الطَّرِيقُ (tropical:) The sons of such a one are one the travelled track. (A.) And اضرّ السَّيْلُ مِنَ الحَايأِطِ (assumed tropical:) The torrent drew near to the wall: and السَّحَابُ إِلَى الأَرْضِ the clouds to the earth. (K.) ― -b2- اضرّ عَلَيْهِ (tropical:) He importuned him; plied him; plied him hard; pressed him; pressed him hard; was urgent with him; persecuted him, or harassed him. (A.) ― -b3- اضرّ الفَرَسُ عَلَى فَأْسِ اللِّجَامِ (tropical:) The horse champed the فأس [q. v.] of the bit; (A 'Obeyd, S, A;) and so اضزّ. (S.) ― -b4- اضرّ فُلَانٌ عَلَى السَّيْرِ الشَّدِيدِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one bore patiently hard journeying. (TA.) -A3- Also, (Msb,) inf. n. إِضْرَارٌ, (S,) He took to himself a wife while having another wife: (As, S, Msb, TA:) [and so, app., ↓ ضارّ: (see ضِرٌّ:)] or he gave [a woman] in marriage to a man having at the time another wife. (TA.) -A4- اضرّ يَعْدُو (S, K, * TA) signifies He hastened (S, K, TA) somewhat in running, accord. to A 'Obeyd; (S, TA;) but Et-Toosee says that this is a mistake, and that it is correctly اصرّ. (TA.)
  • تضرّر Form V harmed, injured, or hurt
    He was [harmed, injured, or hurt; or] afflicted, grieved, or sick: and he experienced straitness, pressure, or inconvenience. (KL.)
  • لَا تَضَارُّونَ Form VI Open entry
    [originally تَتَضَارُّونَ]: see 3.
  • اضطرّهُ إِلَى كَذَا Form VIII necessitated, constrained, compelled, forced, or drove, him to have recourse to, or to do, such a thing
    It, (a thing, or an affair, TA,) or he, [a man, or God,] necessitated, constrained, compelled, forced, or drove, him to have recourse to, or to do, such a thing; or impelled, or drove, him, against his will, to it, or to do it; (Msb, K;) so that he had no means of avoiding it; as also إِلَيْهِ ↓ ضَرَّهُ: (Msb:) it made him to want, or be in need of, such a thing: (K, TA:) from ضَرَرٌ signifying “ narrowness, ” or “ straitness. ” (TA.) [See also 4. Hence the phrase, لَأَضْطَرَّنَّكَ إِلَى أَصْلِكَ, expl. in art. اصل. See also the Kur ii. 120, and xxxi. 23.] ― -b2- اُضْطُرَّ إِلَى كَذَا He was, or became, necessitated, constrained, compelled, forced, or driven, to have recourse to, or to do, such a thing; or was impelled, or driven, against his will, to it, or to do it: (S, K:) he wanted, or was or became in need of, such a thing. (K.)
  • ضَرٌّ Open entry
    : see the next paragraph, in two places.
  • ضُرٌّ Harm, injury, hurt, mischief, or damage; contr. of نَفْعٌ
    Harm, injury, hurt, mischief, or damage; contr. of نَفْعٌ; as also ↓ ضَرٌّ, (A, K,) or this is an inf. n., (S, Msb, K,) and the former is a simple subst.; (ADk, Msb, K;) and ↓ ضَرَرٌ [which is now the most common]: (S, Mgh, Msb, TA:) or an evil state or condition; (ADk, T, S, L, Msb, K;) as also ↓ ضَرَرٌ and ↓ تَضِرَّةٌ and ↓ تَضُرَّةٌ; (K; for the right reading in the K is والضَّرَرُ سُوْءُ الحَالِ, as in the L, &c.; not والضرر وسوء الحال; TA; [but in some of the copies of the K, and in the TA, this signification is assigned to ضَرٌّ instead of ضُرٌّ; and in the latter, its pl. is said to be أَضُرٌّ;]) and poverty; and bodily affliction: but the contr. of نَفْعٌ is termed ↓ ضَرٌّ, with fet-h: (ADk, T, Msb, TA: *) [see also ضَرَّةٌ and ضَرَرٌ and ضَرَّآءُ and ضَرُورَةٌ and ضَارُورَآءُ, all of which have similar meanings:] and disease; (A, Msb;) thus in the Kur xxi. 83: (Msb:) or leanness: (S, A, TA:) the state, or condition, of him who is termed ضَرِير [q. v.]. (TA.) -A2- See also the next paragraph, in two places.
  • ضَرٌّ taking a wife in addition to another wife
    The taking a wife in addition to another wife; (S;) a subst. from ضَرَّةٌ. (K.) You say, نُكِحَتِ المَرْأَةُ عَلَى ضِرٍّ The woman was taken to wife in addition to a former wife. (S.) And, accord. to Aboo-'Abd-Allah Et-Tuwál, تَزَوَّجْتُ المَرْأَةَ عَلَى ضِرٍّ and ↓ ضُرٍّ [I took the woman to wife in addition to another wife]. (S.) And تَزَوَّجَ عَلَى ضِرٍّ and ↓ ضُرٍّ i. e. ↓ مُضَارَّةٍ, meaning He married so as to have two or three wives together. (K.) And Kr mentions the phrase, تَزَوَّجْتُ المَرْأَةَ عَلَى ضِرٍّ كُنَّ لَهَا [I took to wife the woman in addition to others who were her fellow-wives]: and if it be so, ضِرّ is an inf. n. [used in this instance as an epithet, and therefore applicable to a pl. number as well as to a single person], formed by the rejection of the augmentative letter [in its verb, i. e. أَضَرَّ], or it is a pl. that has no sing. (TA.) -A2- One says also رَجُلٌ ضِرُّ أَضْرَارٍ (K, TA) i. e. A man [who is] a strong one of strong ones; like as one says صِلُّ أَصْلَالٍ and ضِلُّ أَضْلَالٍ: (TA:) or very cunning (دَاهِيَةٌ) in his judgment, or opinion. (K, TA.)
  • ضَرَّةٌ Necessity, or need
    [Necessity, or need;] a subst. from 8: (K, TA:) hardness, distressfulness, or afflictiveness, of state or condition: and annoyance, molestation, harm, or hurt. (Sgh, K.) See also [ضُرٌّ, and] ضَرَرٌ, and ضَرَّآءُ, and ضَرُورَةٌ. -A2- A woman's husband's wife; her fellow-wife: (S, Msb, K:) an appellation disliked by the Muslim; جَارَةٌ being used in preference to it; accord. to a trad.: (TA:) pl. ضَرَايأِرُ (Msb, K) and ضَرَّاتٌ; (Msb;) the former extr. [with respect to rule]; (TA;) the latter regular. (Msb.) [See also عَلَّةٌ.] ― -b2- Hence, sing. of ضَرَايأِرُ signifying (tropical:) Discordant things or affairs; likened to fellow-wives, who will not agree. (TA.) ― -b3- And [hence also, app.,] الضَّرَّتَانِ is a term applied to (assumed tropical:) The two stones of a mill. (S, M.) -A3- The flesh of the ضَرْع [or udder]: (S:) or the udder (ضرع) altogether, (K, TA,) except the أَطْبَآء [or teats], when containing milk, but not otherwise: (TA:) or the base of the ضرع, which is never, or scarcely ever, without milk in it: (TA:) or the base of the ثَدْى [or breast]: and i. q. خِلْفٌ [q. v.]. (K.) One says ضَرَّةٌ شَكْرَى, meaning A full ضرّة: (S in this art.:) or a ضرّة having much milk. (S in art. شكر.) ― -b2- ضَرَّةُ الإِبْهَامِ The portion of flesh that is beneath the thumb, which is what corresponds to the أَلْيَه in the hand: (S:) or الضَّرَّةُ signifies the portion of the palm of the hand extending from beneath the little finger to the wrist: (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán: ”) or the inner side of the hand, (K, TA,) over against the little finger, corresponding to the الية in the hand: (TA:) or the portion of flesh beneath the thumb: (K:) or the root thereof [i. e. of the thumb]: (TA:) and that part of the flesh of the sole of the foot upon which one treads, next the great toe. (K.) [See أَلْيَةٌ.] ― -b3- The pl. of ضَرَّةٌ (in all the senses expl. above, TA) is ضَرَايأِرُ, (K, TA,) which [as said above] is extr. (TA.) ― -b4- And الضَّرَّتَانِ signifies The buttocks, on each side of the bone thereof: (K:) or the two flabby portions of flesh, on each side. (M, TA.) -A4- Also Much property, (S,) or many cattle, (S, * TA,) exclusive of money: (TA:) or property, or cattle, (مال,) upon which one relies [for his maintenance], but belonging to another, or others, (K, TA,) of his relations: (TA:) and a detached number of cattle, of camels, and of sheep or goats. (K, TA.)
  • ضُرَّةٌ Open entry
    : see ضَرَّآءُ.
  • ضَرَرٌ Defect, deficiency, detriment, or loss
    : see ضُرٌّ, in two places. ― -b2- Also Defect, deficiency, detriment, or loss, (Msb, K,) and so ↓ ضَرَّةٌ and ↓ ضَرَارَةٌ, (TA,) that happens to a thing, (K,) or to articles of property. (Msb.) You say, دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ ضَرَرٌ فِى مَالِهِ [Defect, deficiency, detriment, or loss, came upon him in his property, or cattle]. (TA.) And هُوَ فِى ضَرَرِ خَيْرٍ [He is in a state of defective, or little, prosperity]. (TA.) See also ضَرَّآءُ. ― -b3- Also Narrowness, or straitness. (A 'Obeyd, S, K.) You say مَكَانٌ ذُو ضَرَرٍ A narrow place. (A 'Obeyd, S.) And لَا ضَرَرَ عَلَيْكَ and ↓ لا ضَارُورَةَ and ↓ لا تَضِرَّةَ [app. No straitness shall befall thee: or no evil: or no adversity: or no want]. (S.) ― -b4- And Narrow. (K.) You say مَكَانٌ ضَرَرٌ A narrow place. (TA.) And مَآءٌ ضَرَرٌ Water in a narrow place. (IAar.) ― -b5- And The brink, or edge, of a cave, or cavern. (AA, O, K.) One says, لَا تَمْشِ عَلَى هٰذَا الضَّرَرِ [Walk not thou on this brink, or edge, of a cave]. (AA, O.)

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