فوض

3 مُفَاضَةٌ ذ signifies The being copartner, or copartners, in everything; (O, K;) [as though each of two persons, or every one of more than two, committed all that he had to the other, or others;] as also ↓ تَفَاوُضٌ. (K.) [See 6.] Hence, (TA,) شِرْكَةُ المُفَاوَضَةِ Copartnership in everything; (Lth, M, S, A, * Mgh, * TA;) in which everything is common property; (Lth, M, TA;) opposed to شِرْكَةُ العِنَانِ, which is copartnership in one thing: (Lth:) or copartnership of two persons in all that they possess: (Msb:) or copartnership of two persons in all that is in their hands, or that they may afterwards acquire; which is null and void accord. to Esh-Sháfi'ee, but allowable accord. to Aboo-Haneefeh and his two companions [Aboo-Yoosuf and Mohammad]. (TA.) You say, شَارَكْتُهُ شِرْكَةَ مُفَاوَضَةٍ I was copartner with him in all the property that we both together possessed. (Az, TA.) Hence also, (TA,) مُفَاوَضَةُ العُلَمَاآءِ The conversing and conferring of the learned on matters of science; each of two persons receiving what the other had [ to communicate ], and giving what he himself had to the other; as though each committed what he had to his companion. (O, * TA.) ― -b2- The commixing [ in social intercourse ]. (A.) ― -b3- The being coequal. (A, O, K.) ― -b4- The competing (مُجَارَاةٌ) in an affair. (K.) You say, فَاوَضَهُ فِى أَمْرِهِ, (S, O, TA,) or فِى كَذَا, (Mgh,) He competed with him, (جَارَاهُ, S, Mgh, O, TA, [for which Golius has read جازاه, whence he has been led to assign to فاوض a wrong meaning, which Freytag has inadvertently copied,]) and did like as he did, (Mgh,) in his affair, (S, TA,) or in such an affair. (Mgh.) And فَاوَضْتُهُ I competed with him; syn. جَارَيْتُهُ: and كَانَ بَيْنَهُمَا مُفَاوَضَةٌ [ There was, between them two, competing ]. (A.)