احصنهُ
Root: حصن
Form: 4
Full Definition
2 Also He, or it, protected, or defended, him.
3 العِفَّةُ تُحْصِنُ مِنَ الرِّيبَةِ [Continence, or chastity, preserves from suspicion, or evil opinion].
4 الَّتِى أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا, in the Kur [xxi. 91 and lxvi. last verse], means Who preserved her pudendum from that which is unlawful or indecorous; who abstained from what is unlawful or indecorous; or was continent, or chaste.
5 احصن المَرْأَةَ He caused the woman to abstain from that which is unlawful or indecorous, or to be continent or chaste; as also . And احصنهُ التَّزَوُّجُ [Marriage caused him to abstain from that which is unlawful &c.].
6 [Also He married the woman; i. e. gave her in marriage.] See أُحْصِنَتْ above, in the first paragraph. In the Kur iv. 30, some read فَإِذَا أُحْصِنَّ, meaning And when they are married. And a poet says,
i. e. They married [their mother to their slave: such are the deeds of the mean, the base].أَحْصَنُوا أُمَّهُمُ مِنْ عَبْدِهِمْ تِلْكَ أَفْعَالُ القِزَامِ الوَكَعَهْ
def.2 أَحْصَنَتْ, intrans.: see 1, in two places.
2 In the Kur iv. 30, some read فَإِذَا أَحْصَنَّ; and accord. to Ibn-Mes'ood, this, said of female slaves, means And when they are Muslimehs. Accord. to Aboo-Haneefeh, الإِحْصَانُ in a case of stoning involves six conditions; The being a Muslimeh, and free, and of sound intellect, and of the age of puberty, and validly married, and having had her marriage consummated: and in a case of charging with adultery, the being a Muslimeh, and free, and of sound intellect, and of the age of puberty, and continent, or chaste.
3 And أحْصَنَ He married, or took a wife. With the lawyers, إِحْصَانٌ means The act of coïtus conjugalis in a case of valid marriage; and accord. to Esh-Sháfi'ee, by a free man who has attained to puberty, and in the case of a free woman who has attained to puberty, among the Muslims and the believers in a plurality of gods; meaning, in a case of valid marriage.
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