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تَبِعَهُ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) aor.
تَبَعَ , inf. n.
تَبَعٌ (S, Msb, K) and
تَبَاعَةٌ, (S, K,)
He followed;
or
went, or
walked, behind, or
after; (S, Mgh,
Msb, K;)
him, (Mgh, Msb, K,) or
it; namely,
a people, or company of men: (S:) or [in the
CK “ and ”]
he went with him, or
it, when the
latter had passed by him: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and
↓
اِتَّبَعَهُ signifies the same; (Lth, S, K *) and so
does ↓
أَتْبَعَهُ: (Lth, Mgh, K:) or ↓
أَتْبَعْتُهُمْ signifies
I overtook them, they having gone before me;
(Fr, * A'Obeyd, S, Msb, * K;) as also
تَبِعْتُهُمْ: (Fr,
K:) Akh says that
تَبِعْتُهُ and ↓
أَتْبَعْتُهُ signify the
same: and hence the saying in the Kur [xxxvii. 10],
فَأَتْبَعَهُ ↓
شِهَابٌ ثَاقِبٌ [
and a shooting star piercing
the darkness by its light overtaketh him]: (S:)
and the saying in the same [vii. 174], ↓
فَأَتْبَعَهُ
الشَّيْطَانُ and the devil overtook him: (TA:) and
the saying in the same [xx. 81],
فَأَتْبَعَهُمْ ↓
فِرْعَوْنُ
بِجُنُودِهِ and Pharaoh overtook them with his
troops: or
almost did so: (Ibn-'Arafeh, K:) or
this signifies
made his troops to follow them;
(TA;) the
ب, accord. to some, being redundant:
(Bd:) or ↓
أَتْبَعَهُ signifies
he followed his footsteps;
and
sought him, following him: (TA:) but ↓
اِتَّبَعَهُمْ
signifies
he went [
after them, or
followed them,]
when they had passed by him; as also
تَبِعَهُمْ,
inf. n.
تَبَعٌ: you say, ↓
مَا زِلْتُ أَتَّبِعُهُمْ ↓
حَتَّى أَتْبَعْتُهُمْ,
i. e. [
I ceased not to follow them]
until I overtook
them: (A'Obeyd:) Fr says that ↓
أَتْبَعَ is better
than ↓
اِتَّبَعَ; for the latter signifies
he went behind,
or
after, him, when the latter person was going
along; but when you say, ↓
أَتْبَعْتُهُ, it is as though
[you meant that] you followed his footsteps:
(TA:) and ↓
اِتَّبَعَ ↓
فُلَانٌ فُلَانًا [as in the L and
TA, but perhaps a mistake for ↓
أَتْبَعَ,] signifies
also
he followed him, desiring to do evil to him;
like as Pharaoh followed Moses: (L, TA:) some
say,
تَبِعْتُ الشَّىْءَ, inf. n.
تُبُوعٌ, meaning
I went
after the thing: and
تَبِعَ الشَّىْءَ, inf. n.
تَبَعٌ and
تَبَاعٌ, (assumed tropical:) [
he followed the thing]
in respect of actions:
(L, TA:) you say,
تَبِعَ الإِمَامَ (assumed tropical:)
he followed the
Imám [
by doing as he did]: (Msb:) [but in this
last sense, more commonly,] one says, ↓
اِتَّبَعَهُ,
meaning (assumed tropical:)
he did like as he [another]
did: (TA:)
and
اِتَّبَعَ ↓
القُرْآنَ (assumed tropical:)
he followed the Kurán as his
guide; did according to what is in it: (TA:)
and you say also,
تَابَعَهُ ↓
عَلَى الأَمْرِ; (Msb;) or
على كَذَا, inf. n.
مُتَابَعَةٌ and
تِبَاعٌ; (S;) (assumed tropical:) [
he
followed him, or
imitated him, in the affair;]
(Msb;)
he followed him, or
imitated him, in
doing such a thing: (PS:) [but this last phrase
has another meaning: see 3.] In the saying,
لَا يُتْبَعُ بِنَارٍ إِلَى القَبْرِ, [in which the verb may be
pass. of
تَبِعَ or of ↓
أَتْبَعَ,] or, accord. to one relation, ↓
لا يُتَّبَعُ, each in the pass. form, [
Fire shall
not be made to follow to the grave, though it may
be rendered
one shall not follow with fire to the
grave, it is said that] the
ب is to render the verb
transitive. (Mgh.) ―
2-b2-
تَبِعْتُ الرَّجُلَ بِحَقِّى; and
تَابَعْتُهُ ↓
بِهِ, inf. n.
مُتَابَعَةٌ [and probably
تبَاعٌ also];
and
اِتَّبَعْتُهُ ↓
به;
I prosecuted, or
sued, the man
for my right, or
due. (TA.) The saying in the
Kur [ii. 173],
فَٱتِّبَاعٌ ↓
بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ means [
Then]
prosecution for the bloodwit [shall be made
with
lenity]. (TA.) ―
2-b3-
تَبِعَ, of which the aor.,
يَتْبَع,
occurs in a trad., [see 4,] (Mgh, TA,) pronounced
by the relaters of trads. with teshdeed, [↓
يَتَّبِع,]
(TA,) also signifies (assumed tropical:)
He accepted a reference
from his debtor to another for the payment of
what was owed to him. (Mgh, TA. *)