مُذْهِبٌ

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مُذْهِبٌ A gilder.
2 , explained by Lth as the name of A certain devil, said to be of the offspring of Iblees, who tempts reciters of the Kur-án in the performance of [the ablution termed] الوُضُوْء, and on other occasions, is [said to be] correctly [المُذْهِبُ,] with kesr to the ه: applied to the devil, (TA in art. شيط,) as meaning he who embellishes, or renders goodly in appearance, acts of disobedience [to God], as also المُهَذِّبُ, (Fr, TA in art. هذب,) IDrd thinks that it is not [genuine] Arabic. And accord. to the S and El-Kurtubee and many others, بِهِ مُذْهَبٌ means [In him is] a vain suggestion [of the devil] respecting the water, and [respecting] the using much thereof in the وُضُوْء: [i. e. a vain suggestion that may induce him to think that the water is unfit, or deficient in quantity, or the like:] but accord. to the K, it is correctly المُذْهِبُ. Az says that the people of Baghdád apply the appellation مُذْهِبٌ to A man who inspires vain suggestions; and that the vulgar among them pronounce it مُذْهَبٌ .

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