SATAN

Arabic Shait̤ān ( شيطن‎ ). [ DEVIL .] SATR ( ستر‎ ). A curtain or veil. A term used for the seclusion of women, called also ḥijāb . In the Traditions it is used for nece ary and decent attire, bābu ʾs-satr being a special chapter in the Mishkātu ʾl-Maṣābiḥ (book iv. ch. ix.). The satr for a man being from the waist to the knee, and for a free woman from the neck to the feet; but for a slave girl from the waist to the knee as in the case of a man. That part of the body which must be so covered is called ʿaurah or ʿaurat , “shame or modesty,” from which the Hindu stan i word, ʿaurat , “a woman,” is derived. [ HARIM , WOMEN .] SATTŪQAH ( ستوقة‎ ). Base coin. The term is used for a coin which is current amongst merchants, but is not received at the public treasury. Coins in which the pure metal predominates are not considered base. (See Hamilton’s Hidāyah , vol. ii. p. 560.) SAUDAH ( سودة‎ ). One of the wives of Muḥammad. She was the widow of Sakrān, a Quraish, and one of the early companions of the Prophet. Muḥammad married her within two months of the death of K͟hadījah. (Muir’s Life of Mahomet , new ed. p. 117.) She died A.H . 55.