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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Conception of the Sahaba's Ultimate Decency and the Political Authority in Islam Part 1 — Chapter 1 the Lexical Meaning of Sahaba A. in Lexicons (As'hab, Sahaba, Sahibi, Yas'habu, Suhbeh, Sahabe.) According to the Arabic­Arabic dictionaries, these idioms mean to associate, to accompany, to sit with, to submit to, to accede to. (Sahib) means the associate, the submissive, the sitter with, the companion, the custodian or the keeper of a matter.

This word (Sahib) is called on those who refer to a definite sect. It is said: The As'hab (followers) of Imam Ja'far, the As'hab of Abu­Haneefeh,.. etc. B. in the Holy Quran Allah, the Elevated, revealed the Quran in Arabic. One of the characteristics of Quran is being the only convictional reference of Arabic. It is the words of Allah, the knowing, dogmatically, of the most accurate hiddens and the deepest secrets of this language.

By reading the Holy Quran, we discover that the words derived from the idiom involved are included in the following forms: (Tussahibeni, Sahibhuma, Sahibuhu, Sahibetihi, As'hab and As'habehum.) These forms were repeated ninety seven times in the Holy Quran. The raised point is that there in no existence for the forms (Sahaba and Suhbe) in the Holy Quran. By conjuring these words up, we find out that they are forming a perfect coverage of the entire lexical meaning previously referred to.

This idiom may take a single face or aspect, or various faces and aspects. It may bear an ideal face representing the total rims of good and, in the same time, it may bear a face so ugly that it represents the gross rims of evil. D.