حَاطِبٌ

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حَاطِبٌ A collector of firewood: and so حَطَّابٌ , but in an intensive sense: or the latter, one who collects and sells firewood: and حَطَّابَةٌ a company of collectors of firewood: and إِمَآءٌ حَوَاطِبُ [pl. of حَاطِبَةٌ] female slaves who collect firewood.
2 [Hence,] هُوَ حَاطِبُ لَيْلٍ He is one who confuses in his speech, and in his affair: or one who speaks what is bad and what is good: like him who collects firewood by night; for this person sees not what he collects in his rope, so he collects bad and good. Az says, one who acts unjustly towards himself is likened to a collector of wood by night, because the latter may chance to put his hand upon a viper, and be bitten by it: and so is one who does not restrain his tongue, but censures others; by doing which a man sometimes occasions his own death. It is said in a prov., المِكْثَارُ حَاطِبُ لَيْلٍ The loquacious is [like] a collector of firewood by night.

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