احتسب

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احتسبVIII [for احتسب أَجْرًا He reckoned upon a reward: or] he sought a reward [from God in the world to come]. وَيَرْزُقُهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ, in the Kur lxv. 2, means [And He will supply him with the means of subsistence] whence he does not reckon, or expect; whence does not occur to his mind. And مَنْ صَامَ رَمَضانَ إِيمَانًا وَٱحْتِسَابًا, in a trad., Whoso fasteth during Ramadán, believing in God and his Apostle, and [reckoning upon a reward, or] seeking a reward from God. You say also, احتسب بِكَذَا أَجْرًا عِنْدَ ٱللّٰهِ He reckoned upon obtaining, [or he sought,] by such a thing, or such an action, a reward from God: or he prepared, or provided, such a thing, seeking thereby a reward from God. And احتسب عِنْدَ ٱللّٰهِ خَيْرًا He prepared, or provided, in store for himself, good, [i. e. a reward,] with God. And احتسب الأَجْرَ عَلَى ٱللّٰهِ He laid up for himself, in store, the reward, with God, not hoping for the reward of the present life; اِحْتِسَابُ الأَجْرِ relating only to an action done for the sake of God. [Hence,] احتسب وَلَدَهُ, or ٱبْنَهُ, or ٱبْنًا, or بنْتًا, is said when one has lost by death an adult child or son or daughter; meaning He prepared, or provided, in store for himself, a reward, by his patience on the occasion of his being afflicted and tried by the death of his adult child: when a man has lost by death a child not arrived at the age of puberty, you say of him, اِفْتَرَطَهُ. [Hence also,] احتسب عَمَلَهُ [He reckoned upon, or prepared for himself, a reward by his deed: or] he did his deed seeking a reward from God in the world to come.
2 اِحْتَسَبْتُ بَالشَّىْءِ I included the thing in a numbering, or reckoning; or made account of it; accounted it a matter of importance. And فُلَانٌ لَا يُحْتَسَبُ [for لا يحتسب بَهِ] Such a one is made no account of; is not esteemed, or regarded, as of any account, or importance.
3 اِحْتَسَبْتُ عِنْدَهُ means اِكْتَفَيْتُ [I was, or became, sufficed, or contented, thereat, or with him, or at his abode]. [And IbrD thinks that the verb has the same signification in the phrase اِحْتَسَبْتُ عَلَيْهِ بِالمَالِ, quoted in the TA from the A; holding عليه to be here used in the sense of عَنْهُ; so that the meaning is I was, or became, sufficed, so as to have no need of him, or it, by the property: but I doubt whether this phrase be correctly transcribed.]
4 احتسب also signifies اِنْتَهَى [He abstained, or desisted; app. as one sufficed, or contented].
5 And احتسب عَلَيْهِ كَذَا He disapproved and disallowed his doing, or having done, such a thing; namely, a foul deed: whence the appellation مُحْتَسِبٌ . And accord. to some, احتسب ٱللّٰهَ عَلَيْهِ means He said, May God take, or execute, vengeance upon him; or punish him; for his evil deeds. (Har p. 371. [See حَسِيبٌ.]) [In the present day, احتسب عَلَيْهِ is used as meaning He prayed for aid against him by saying, حَسْبُنَا ٱللّٰهُ God is, or will be, sufficient for us.]
6 You say also, احتسب فُلَانًا, or احتسب مَا عِنْدَهُ, meaning He endeavoured to learn what such a one had [in his mind, or in his possession].
7 See also 4.

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