تَبَاوَآ
Root: بوأ
Form: 6
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تَبَاوَآVI
They two became equal [by being slain, one in retaliation for the other]. It is said in a trad., أَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ يَتَبَاوَؤُوا; incorrectly related as being يَتَبآءَوْا; meaning He ordered them that they should be equal in retaliation, in their fighting: the occasion of the order was this: there was a conflict between two tribes of the Arabs, and one of the two tribes had superior power over the other, so they said, “ We will not be content unless we slay, for the slave of our party, the free of their party; and for the woman, the man: ” A'Obeyd holds the former reading to be the right.
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