A stranger who joins another family (عَدِيدٌ)
أصول الفقه
المعنى الاصطلاحي :
A stranger who has no family who joins another family and counts himself as one of its members.
التعريف اللغوي المختصر :
"‘Adeed": peer, equal. Derived from "‘add", which means counting and estimation. Other meanings: multiple, a stranger who is counted as one of a particular group of people though he actually does not belong to them.