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اقبرهُ

Root: قبر

Form: 4

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اقبرهُIV He made him to be buried: so in the Kur, lxxx. 21: where it is meant that man is not made by God to be thrown, when dead, to the dogs, or to the birds and wild beasts.
2 He ordered that he should be buried.
3 [He permitted that he should be buried.] The tribe of Temeem said to El-Hejjáj, who had slain Sálih the son of 'Abder-Rahmán, أَقْبِرْنَا صَالِحًا, meaning, Permit us to bury Sálih. You say also اقبر القَوْمَ, meaning, He gave them their slain that they might burg him.
4 He assigned to him, or made for him, a grave to be buried in it: he made him to have a grave.
5 Accord. to some, He ordered him to dig a grave.
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