حَفْنَةٌ
1.
, (S, Mgh, Msb, TA, and so, according to the TA, in the K,) or
حُفْنَةٌ, (so in copies of the K,) [but the former is that which is commonly known,] A handful: (Mgh, K:) or the quantity that fills the two hands [when they are put together so as to be like a bowl]; (S, Msb;) of wheat [or the like]: (S:) plural حَفَنَاتٌ. (S, Msb.) Hence, (in the saying of Aboo-Bekr, TA,) إِنَّمَا
نَحْنُ حَفْنَةٌ مِنْ حَفَنَاتِ اللّٰهِ, (S, TA,) i. e., (tropical:) We shall be but little, on the day of resurrection, like a
حفنة, in the estimation of God; (TA;) meaning we shall be but a small thing in comparison with the dominion and the mercy of God. (S, TA.)
2.
Also The hand (كَفّ) itself. (Har p. 296.)
3.
See also what next follows.