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واترIII
, or
أَوْتَرَ , and بين كُتُبِهِ, and واتر أَخْبَارَهُ, (M, K; in the latter of which وَاتَرَهُ is put by mistake for وَاتَرَهَا, as is observed in the TA,) and كُتُبَهُ, Verbal.Noun مُوَاتَرَةٌ and وِتَارٌ, He made his tidings, or narrations, and his writings, or letters, to follow one another: or with some intervals between them; for مواترة between things is only when there is some interval between them; otherwise it is مُدَارَكَةٌ and مُوَاصَلَةٌ: or واتر الكُتُبَ signifies he made the writings, or letters, to follow one another nearly, one by one, without ceasing: or he made them to follow one another with a small interval between every two: and وَاتر الخَبَرَ
he made the tidings, or narration, to follow one part after another: or, accord. to As, with a small space between every two portions thereof: from وِتْرٌ in the sense of فَرْدٌ. You say also وَاتر بَيْنَ مِيَرِهِمْ
He made their supplies of wheat to come to them without stopping; time after time. And it is said in a trad., لَا بَأْسَ أَنْ يُوَاتِرَ قَضَآءَ رَمَضَانَ
There will be no harm in his performing the fast of Ramadán at intervals, fasting one day and breaking fast one day: مُوَاتَرَةُ الصَّوْمِ is the fasting one day and breaking fast one day, or two; performing it separately: it does not mean المُوَاصَلَةُ, because it is from الوِتْرُ, i. e., الفَرْدُ.
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