وَاجِبٌ

Slain: (S:) dying; or dead. (TA.) So in the following verse of Keys Ibn-ElKhateem:

أَطَاعَتْ بَنُو عَوْفٍ أَمِيرًا نَهَاهُمُ

عَنِ السِّلْمِ حَتَّى كَانَ أَوَّلَ وَاجِبِ

[The sons of 'Owf obeyed a commander who forbade them to make peace until he was the first who was slain, or who died]. (S, TA.)

-A2- وَاجِبٌ [act. particle n. of وَجَبَ; Necessary; requisite; unavoidable: binding, incumbent, or obligatory. In the science of the fundamentals of religion, Necessarily being or existing; of which the nonexistence cannot be mentally conceived: as the essence of God. (IbrD.)]

Accord. to [the Imám] Aboo-Haneefeh, وَاجِبٌ [in matters of religion] is not so strong a term as فَرْضٌ: [and so may be rendered incumbent, or obligatory; or that which is a necessary, or indispensable, duty; yet not so decisively or manifestly shown to be such as that which is termed فرض:] or, according to Esh-Sháfi'ee, these two terms are synonym, signifying [binding, incumbent, or obligatory, by God's express appointment, as] a thing for neglecting which one will be punished: and واجب signifies that which should be preferred and approved; thus explained by ElKhattábee as occurring in the following tradition: غُسْلُ الجُمْعَةِ وَاجِبٌ عَلَى كُلِّ مُحْتَلِمٍ The ablution prescribed to be performed on Friday is an act which every one who has experienced a nocturnal pollution should prefer and approve. (TA.)

-A3- فِعْلٌ وَاجِبٌ [A verb expressing an event as a positive fact] is such, for instance, as in the phrase بَيْنَمَا أَنَا كَذَا إِذْ جَاءَ زَيْدٌ [while I was thus, or in [this state, lo, or behold, Zeyd came]. (S, L, article اذ.)