استأثر
Root: اثر
Form: 10
Full Definition
استأثرX
; and عَلَيْهِمْ, Present.T
ـَ; He chose for himself [in preference to his companions] good things, in partition, or good actions, and qualities of the mind. And استأثر
بالشَّىْءِ, or الشَّىْءَ, He had the thing to himself, with none to share with him in it: and the former signifies he appropriated the thing to himself exclusively, عَلَى غَيْرِهِ
in preference to another or others. It is said in a trad., إِذَا اسْتَأْثَرَ اللّٰهُ بِشَىْءٍ فَالْهَ
عَنُهُ
When God appropriateth a thing to Himself exclusively, then be thou diverted from it so as to forget it. And one says, اِسْتأْثَرَ اللّٰهُ بِفُلَانٍ, (and فُلَانًا, TA,) [God took such a one to Himself,] when a person has died and it is hoped that he is forgiven.
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