سَبْعٌ
Root: سبع
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سَبْعٌ
fem. of سَبْعَةٌ, q. v.
def.2 See also سَبُعٌ in two places.
def.3 السَّبْعُ The place to which mankind shall be congregated on the day of resurrection. Hence the trad., which relates that while a pastor was among his sheep, or goats, the wolf rushed upon him, and took from them a sheep, or goat, and the pastor pursued him until he rescued it from him; whereupon the wolf looked aside towards him, and said to him, مَنْ لَهَا يَوْمَ السَّبْعِ, meaning Who will be for it [namely, the sheep, or goat, as aider, or defender,] on the day of resurrection? thus expl. by I Aar, and mentioned by Sgh and the author of the L: but to this is contradictory, or repugnant, يَعْكُرُ, [in the CK erroneously written يَعْكَرُ,]) the saying of the wolf, after the words mentioned above, “ the day when it shall have no pastor but me; ” for the wolf will not be a pastor on the day of resurrection: or the meaning is, who shall be for it on the occasion of trials, when it shall be left to itself, without pastor, a spoil to the animals of prey: the animal of prey being thus made to be a pastor to it: this is in the way of a trope: and accord. to this explanation, it may be [ يَوْمَ ] with damm to the ب:
def.2 See also سَبُعٌ in two places.
def.3 السَّبْعُ The place to which mankind shall be congregated on the day of resurrection. Hence the trad., which relates that while a pastor was among his sheep, or goats, the wolf rushed upon him, and took from them a sheep, or goat, and the pastor pursued him until he rescued it from him; whereupon the wolf looked aside towards him, and said to him, مَنْ لَهَا يَوْمَ السَّبْعِ, meaning Who will be for it [namely, the sheep, or goat, as aider, or defender,] on the day of resurrection? thus expl. by I Aar, and mentioned by Sgh and the author of the L: but to this is contradictory, or repugnant, يَعْكُرُ, [in the CK erroneously written يَعْكَرُ,]) the saying of the wolf, after the words mentioned above, “ the day when it shall have no pastor but me; ” for the wolf will not be a pastor on the day of resurrection: or the meaning is, who shall be for it on the occasion of trials, when it shall be left to itself, without pastor, a spoil to the animals of prey: the animal of prey being thus made to be a pastor to it: this is in the way of a trope: and accord. to this explanation, it may be [ يَوْمَ ] with damm to the ب:
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