What caution applies to ikhtaṣartum and al-khaṣr?
Radd al-ʿAjz ʿalā al-Ṣadr: Repetition, Paronomasia and Derivation in Prose and Poetry
- Do not infer one root from surface resemblance
- Always treat them as one word
- Treat both as verbal nouns
- Classify them only as antithesis