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رجّم

Root: رجم

Form: 2

Full Definition

رجّمII , Verbal.Noun تَرْجِيمٌ, He placed upon the grave رُجَم [meaning large stones, to make a gibbous covering to it]. It is related in a trad. of 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Mughaffal, that he said, لَا تُرَجِّمُوا قَبْرِى, i. e. Place not ye upon my grave رُجَم; meaning thereby that they should make his grave even with the ground, not gibbous and elevated: the verb is thus correctly, with tesh-deed: but the relaters of trads. say, لا قبرى: [and it is said that] القَبْرَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun رَجْمٌ, signifies عَلَّمَهُ, i. e. He put a tombstone to the grave: or he placed upon the grave رِجَام [a pl., like رُجَم, of رُجْمَة]: or, accord. to Aboo-Bekr, لَا قَبْرِى means Wail not ye at my grave; i. e. say not, at it, what is unseemly; from الرَّجْمُ signifying “ the act of reviling. ”
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