# Kh-Sad-Sad — خصص (xSS)

> Occurs in 4 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/xSS

- **Meaning:** Distinguish/particularize/specially characterize a person, appropriate/assign/make to belong to a particular person alone or exclusively of others, favour one in preference to another or others (i.e. to single one out), take/choose a person specifically to or for oneself, be alone (with none to share or participate with one in the affair).
- **Derived forms:** خَاصَّة (1) · خَصَاصَة (1) · يَخْتَصُّ (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 105

- **Form in this verse:** يَخْتَصُّ — yakhtaṣṣu · "chooses"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of ifti'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

مَا يَوَدُّ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ اَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَلَا الْمُشْرِك۪ينَ اَنْ يُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْۜ وَاللّٰهُ يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِه۪ مَنْ يَشَٓاءُۜ وَاللّٰهُ ذُوالْفَضْلِ الْعَظ۪يمِ

Ma yawaddu allatheena kafaroomin ahli alkitabi wala almushrikeena an yunazzalaAAalaykum min khayrin min rabbikum wallahu yakhtassubirahmatihi man yashao wallahu thooalfadli alAAatheem

Neither those who ignore warning among the doctors of the Law nor the idolaters wish that there be sent down upon you any good from your Lord, but God chooses for His mercy whom He wills; and God is possessor of tremendous bounty.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-105.md_

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 74

- **Form in this verse:** يَخْتَصُّ — yakhtaṣṣu · "He chooses"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of ifti'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِه۪ مَنْ يَشَٓاءُۜ وَاللّٰهُ ذُوالْفَضْلِ الْعَظ۪يمِ

Yakhtassu birahmatihi man yashaowallahu thoo alfadli alAAatheem

He chooses for His mercy whom He wills; and God is possessor of tremendous bounty.

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-74.md_

### 8. Surah Al-Anfal, Verse 25

- **Form in this verse:** خَآصَّةًۭ ۖ — khāṣṣatan · "exclusively"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, singular · accusative case · indefinite

وَاتَّقُوا فِتْنَةً لَا تُص۪يبَنَّ الَّذ۪ينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْكُمْ خَٓاصَّةًۚ وَاعْلَمُٓوا اَنَّ اللّٰهَ شَد۪يدُ الْعِقَابِ

Wattaqoo fitnatan la tuseebannaallatheena thalamoo minkum khassatanwaAAlamoo anna Allaha shadeedu alAAiqab

And be in prudent fear of a means of denial not to befall those who do wrong among you exclusively; and know that God is severe in retribution.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anfal/verse-25.md_

### 59. Surah Al-Hashr, Verse 9

- **Form in this verse:** خَصَاصَةٌۭ ۚ — khaṣāṣatun · "poverty"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

وَالَّذ۪ينَ تَبَوَّؤُ الدَّارَ وَالْا۪يمَانَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ يُحِبُّونَ مَنْ هَاجَرَ اِلَيْهِمْ وَلَا يَجِدُونَ ف۪ي صُدُورِهِمْ حَاجَةً مِمَّٓا اُو۫تُوا وَيُؤْثِرُونَ عَلٰٓى اَنْفُسِهِمْ وَلَوْ كَانَ بِهِمْ خَصَاصَةٌۜ وَمَنْ يُوقَ شُحَّ نَفْسِه۪ فَاُو۬لٰٓئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَۚ

Wallatheena tabawwaoo addarawal-eemana min qablihim yuhibboona man hajarailayhim wala yajidoona fee sudoorihim hajatanmimma ootoo wayu/thiroona AAala anfusihim walaw kanabihim khasasatun waman yooqa shuhha nafsihi faola-ikahumu almuflihoon

And those who settled in the home and the faith before them, love those who have emigrated to them, and they find in their breasts no need for what they were given, but give preference above themselves though they be in privation. And whoso is protected from the avarice of his soul, it is they who are the successful.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hashr/verse-9.md_

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