{
 "id": "concept/abawan",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "abawan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الأبوان",
  "en": "Abawan (the two parents)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الأبوان تثنية أب، وهو على الحقيقة الأبُ والأمّ، وقد يُستعمل في الجد والجدّة مجازاً كما ورد في القرآن الكريم في سورة يوسف. ويُحمل لفظ الأبوين عند الإطلاق في الوصية والوقف والأمان والقذف وغيرها على الأب والأم، ما لم تقم قرينة لفظية أو حالية على خلاف ذلك. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1468} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1469}",
  "en": "Abawan is the dual of father. Literally it means a father and a mother; figuratively it can mean a grandfather and a grandmother, as in one verse of Surat Yusuf. When the word is used without qualification in a will, an endowment, a grant of safe conduct, an accusation of slander or similar acts, it means the father and the mother, unless a verbal or situational sign shows otherwise. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1468} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1469}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «أبوان»، ص 1468-1469 من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "lib-exp-usul-fiqh-depth-kuwaiti-6"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; complete headword on scan pp.1468-1469 (literal and figurative use, the default meaning in legal acts). The Qur'an verse is referenced by surah only, not quoted. Footnote citations omitted; printed folios not verified"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الأبوان تثنية أب، وهو على الحقيقة الأب والأم، وقد يُراد بهما الجد والجدة مجازاً، كما في قوله تعالى في سورة يوسف. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1468} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1469} وقد يُطلق لفظ «الأبوين» على الأب والأم تغليباً، وهذا أكثر استعماله."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم الإجمالي",
     "markdown": "يُستعمل لفظ «الأبوين» في كلام الفقهاء كما يستعمله أهل اللغة. فعند الإطلاق في الوصية أو الوقف أو الأمان أو القذف أو غير ذلك ينصرف إلى الأب والأم. فإن قامت قرينة لفظية على المجاز، كأن يوصي لأبويه فلان وفلان، وهما الجد والعم، انصرف إلى ذلك، وكذا إن قامت قرينة حالية، كأن لا يكون له أب ولا أم ولكن له جد وجدة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1469}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/abawan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Abawan is the dual of father. Literally it means a father and a mother; figuratively it can mean a grandfather and a grandmother, as in one verse of Surat Yusuf. It is also used of a father and a mother together, by generalization, and this is its most common use. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1468} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1469}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "General ruling",
     "markdown": "Jurists use the word as the language does. When it appears without qualification in a will, an endowment, a grant of safe conduct, an accusation of slander or similar act, it means the father and the mother. A verbal sign can show a figurative sense, as when someone bequeaths to \"my two parents\" who are his grandfather and paternal uncle; a situational sign can do the same, as when someone has no father or mother, only a grandfather and a grandmother. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1469}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/abawan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/taj-mahal",
  "concept/adl-bayn-al-zawjat",
  "concept/adl-nikah",
  "concept/afal",
  "concept/ahl-al-nasab",
  "concept/akdariyya",
  "concept/akh",
  "concept/al-bayt-al-muslim"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}