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سفتج

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a financial transaction where money is deposited in one location to be received in another, often to avoid the risks of travel. It relates to a form of secure remittance or exchange.

Derived headwords

السَّفْتَجَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Remittance transactionclassical

    A financial transaction where one gives money to another in one city, and the recipient is to deliver it to the giver in another city, thereby gaining security from the dangers of the road.

  2. 2.
    Secure loanclassical

    A loan of money to avoid the risk of carrying it, where the money is deposited in a safe place to be returned in another safe location.

سَفَتَجَverb
  1. 1.
    To remit moneyclassical

    To engage in the act of remittance, depositing money in one place to be received in another.

السَّفَاتِجnoun
  1. 1.
    Remittancesclassical

    The plural form of 'siftajah', referring to multiple remittance transactions.

Parallel reading

وهو أن تعطي مالا لآخر، وللآخر مال في بلد المعطي فيوفيه إياه ثم ، أي هناك، فيستفيد أمن الطريق
It is that you give money to another, and the other [person] has money in the city of the giver, and he delivers it to him, and then, there, he benefits from the security of the road.
وفي تسخة: أن تعطي مالا لآخر وللآخذ مال في بلد المعطي بصيغة اسم الفاعل فيوفيه إياه
And in one version: that you give money to another, and the taker has money in the city of the giver, in the form of an active participle, and he delivers it to him.
وفي نخسة: إياها
And in another version: it.
وفسره بعضهم فقال: هي كتاب صاحب المال لوكيله أن يدفع مالا قراضا يأمن به من خطر الطريق
And some interpreted it, saying: It is a letter from the owner of the money to his agent to pay money as a loan, by which he is safe from the danger of the road.
والجمع السفاتج
And the plural is 'as-safatij'.
هي بضم السين، وقيل: بفتحها وفتح التاء، معرب سفته
It is with a damma on the sin, and it is said: with a fatha on it and a fatha on the ta, it is a Persian loanword from 'safteh'.
بضم السين وفتح التاء: الشيء المحكم، سمي به هاذا القرض لإحكام أمره
With a damma on the sin and a fatha on the ta: the well-secured thing, this loan was named so due to the securing of its matter.
وهو قرض استفاد به المقرض سقوط خطر الطريق بأن يقرض ماله عند الخوف عليه ليرد عليه في موضع أمن
It is a loan by which the lender benefits from the removal of the road's danger by lending his money when he fears for it, to have it returned to him in a place of safety.
لأنه عليه السلام نهى عن قرض جر نفعا
Because the Prophet, peace be upon him, forbade a loan that brings a benefit.