أثرة

• IPA^(key): /ʔaθ.ra/, /ʔa.θa.ra/, /ʔuθ.ra/

أَثْرَة or أَثَرَة or أُثْرَة • (ʔaṯra or ʔaṯara or ʔuṯra) f (plural أَثَرَات (ʔaṯarāt) or أُثْرَات (ʔuṯrāt) or أُثُرَات (ʔuṯurāt))

1. (countable) a trace

   Synonym: أَثَر (ʔaṯar)

2. (countable) a transmitted or generally preserved item of knowledge (especially when perceived as ancient)
   1. (countable, Islam) a tradition (especially when retained or written down)

      Synonym: أَثَر (ʔaṯar)

3. (countable) a respected or reputable quality (of someone); an excellence, a virtue; a merit

   Synonym: مَأْثَرَة (maʔṯara)

4. (uncountable) favoring an individual or a group, preferentiality, favoritism; nepotism

   Synonym: تَفْضِيل (tafḍīl)

   • (Can we date this quote?), al-Qurṭubī, الجامع لأحكام القرآن [The Collection of the Ordainments of the Qur'an]:

     عن رافع بن خديج أنه تزوج بنت محمد بن مسلمة الأنصارية، فكانت عنده حتى كبِرت، فتزوج عليها فتاة شابة، فآثر الشابة عليها، فناشدته الطلاق، فطلقها واحدة، ثم أهملها حتى إذا كانت تحل راجعها ، ثم عاد فآثر الشابة عليها فناشدته الطلاق فطلقها واحدة، ثم راجعها فآثر الشابة عليها فناشدته الطلاق فقال: ما شئت، إنما بقيت واحدة، فإن شئت استقررت على ما ترين من الأثرة، وإن شئت فارقتك .قالت: بل أستقر على الأثرة. فأمسكها على ذلك؛ ولم ير رافع عليه إثما حين قرت عنده على الأثرة

     that Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj married the daughter of Muhammad ibn Maslamah the ʾAnṣārid, and she remained with him till she aged , so he married a youthful woman, and he favored the young woman over her. Thus, she asked him to divorce her, and he did, but then he reversed it, and he reverted to favoring the young woman over her. And so she asked him to divorce her , and he did, but then he reversed it, and he favor the young woman over her. so she asked him to divorce her, he said, "Whatever you want. I can divorce you only one more time anyway, so if you want, you could stay in spite of what you perceive to be favoritism, or I could part from you. So she said, "I would rather stay in spite of the favoritism, so he kept her. And Rāfiʿ did not deem it wrongful that she stayed with him despite the favoritism

   1. (uncountable) favoring oneself; selfishness

      Synonym: أَنَانِيّة (ʔanāniyya)

      Antonym: إِيثَار (ʔīṯār)

5. (uncountable) refusing to give or share, withholding

   Synonym: اِنْفِرَاد (infirād)

   1. (uncountable) keeping for oneself, appropriation, monopoly, monopolization, engrossment

      Synonym: اِسْتِئْثَار (istiʔṯār)

      Antonym: إِشْرَاك (ʔišrāk)