Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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مُطَيَّبٌ ذ pass. part. n. of 2. (TA.) Hence, (TA,) حِلْفُ المُطَيَّبِينَ [The covenant of the perfumed men]: (K, TA:) these were five tribes; Benoo-'Abd-Menáf and Benoo-Asad-Ibn-'AbdEl-'Ozzà and Benoo-Teym and Benoo-Zuhrah and Benu-l-Hárith and Benoo-Fihr: (TA:) and they were so called for the following reason: when Benoo-'Abd-Menáf desired to assume [the offices of] the حِجَابَة and the رِفَادَة and the لِوَآء and the سِقَايَة, [see arts. حجب &c.,] which belonged to Benoo-'Abd-ed-Dár, and these refused their consent, all of the above-mentioned, (K, TA,) having assembled in the house of Ibn-Jud'án, in the Time of Ignorance, (TA,) concluded a ratified covenant for the accomplishment of their affair, engaging not to fail in aiding one another: then they mixed some perfumes, and dipped their hands therein; after which they wiped their hands upon the Kaabeh in token of confirmation of the covenant: and Benoo-'Abded-Dár, also, and their confederates, (K, TA,) composing six tribes, Benoo-'Abd-ed-Dár and Jumah and Makhzoom and 'Adee and Kaab and Sahm, (TA,) concluded together another covenant, and were thence called الأَحْلَاف: (K, TA:) this is the account commonly known and received: another account is the following: there came a man of the Benoo-Zeyd to Mekkeh for the purpose of [the religious visit termed] the عُمْرَة, having with him merchandise, and a man of Sahm bought this of him, and refused to pay him for it; whereupon he called to them from the summit of Aboo-Kubeys, and they arose, and entered into a covenant together to do him justice: thus relates Eth-Tha'álibee: (TA:) Mohammad was one of the مُطَيَّبُون, (K, TA,) being then twenty-five years old; and so was Aboo-Bekr: and 'Omar was an أَحْلَفِىّ. (TA.) ― -b2- المُطَيَّبَةُ: see طَيْبَةُ.