سَاهٍ

Unmindful, forgetful, neglectful, heedless, or inadvertent; (JK, S, Msb, K;) as also سَهْوَانُ; (S, K;) whence the prov.,

إِنَّ المُوَصَّيْنَ بَنُو سَهْوَانْ

(S) i. e. Only the unmindful [lit. the sons of the unmindful] are such as require to be enjoined: (S, Meyd:) or, as some say, by بنو سهوان are meant all mankind; because all become unmindful: but the most correct explanation is, that those who are enjoined to do a thing are subject to unmindfulness: it is applied to him who is unmindful of pursuing that which he is commanded to do: and سهوان may be synonym with [the verbal noun] سَهْوٌ; or it may be an epithet, synonym with سَاهٍ, and is applied to Adam, because he forgot his cove- nant, so that بنو سهوان may mean the sons of Adam, and hence, the unmindful. (Meyd. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 3-4.])