رِبْقٌ

A cord having in it a number of loops wherewith lambs, or kids, are tied, or made fast; any one of which loops is termed ↓ رِبْقَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ رَبْقَةٌ: (K:) or a cord which is doubled in the form of a ring, into which is put the head of a sheep or goat, and which is then tied, or made fast: so, says Az, I have heard from the Arabs of the desert of Benoo-Temeem: (TA:) plural [of mult.] رِبَاقٌ (S, Msb, K) and رِبَقٌ and [of pauc.] أَرْبَاقٌ. (S, K.)

Hence, (TA,) خَلَعَ الإِسْلَامِ مِنْ عُنُقِهِ ↓ رِبْقَةَ, (S, Msb, TA,) occurring in a tradition, (S,) (tropical:) He cast off the tie of El-Islám, (Msb, TA,) with which he had bound himself, (TA,) [from his neck.] (Msb, TA. [See also خَلَعَ.]) And لَكُمُ العَهْدُ مَا لَمْ تَأْكُلُوا الرِّبَاقَ, also occurring in a tradition, (S,) meaning (tropical:) [The covenant is yours] as long as ye sever not the tie with which ye are bound; this tie being likened to the رِبْق upon the necks of lambs or kids; and the severing thereof, to the beast's eating its رِبْق, and severing it; for thereby the beast becomes free from the tie. (TA.) And in a tradition of 'Omar, حُجُّوا بِالذُّرِّيَّةِ لَا تَأْكُلُوا أَرْزَاقَهَا وَتَذَرُوا أَرْبَاقَهَا فِى أَعْنَاقِهَا [Perform ye the pilgrimage with the women: devour not their means of subsistence, while ye leave their ties upon their necks]: he likens the obligations imposed upon them to ارباق. (TA.) One says also, ↓ حَلَّ رِبْقَتَهُ, meaning (tropical:) He removed from him his anxiety: (K, TA:) and so ↓ قَطَعَ رِبْقَتَهُ. (TA.)