حَدَّثَ narrated in Arabic
حَدَّثَ is how you say “narrated” in Arabic.
Root ح د ث ḥ-d-th. verb (form II). ḥaddatha.
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Meaning of narrated in Arabic
- to tell, narrate, or relate (a story, narrative, or tradition) to someone used with a direct object (ḥaddathahu l-ḥadītha) or with بِ (ḥaddathahu bihi)
- to narrate a ḥadīth on the authority of someone Islamic technical usage: ḥaddatha ʿan fulānin, of transmitting sayings of the Prophet
- (figurative) to resound, buzz with talk e.g. said of a country left 'talking' with a confused noise of voices
Example sentence
فبينا عمر في نفر من المسلمين يتحدثون عن يوم بدر،
While Umar was among a group of Muslims discussing the Day of Badr,
يَتَحَدَّثُونَ they discuss
Present-tense verb 'talk, discuss' with subject 'they' (the '-una' ending) — 'they are talking'.
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How it is used
ḥaddatha (form II) is the verb behind ḥadīth — it is the standard term for narrating a report or tradition, especially a saying of the Prophet transmitted through a chain of narrators, but it is also used for ordinary storytelling and conversation.
Words from the same root
- حَدَثَ to be new/recent; to come into existence, happen (form I)
- حَدِيثٌ narrative, story; a Prophetic tradition
- حَادِثٌ happening, occurring; a new event
- حَادِثَةٌ an event, occurrence, or accident
- أَحْدَثَ to bring into being, originate, or innovate (form IV)
- تَحَدَّثَ to talk, converse, tell a story (form V)
- حَدَاثَةٌ newness; youthfulness
- مُحْدَثٌ newly invented thing; an innovation
More example sentences
حَدثنَا مَكْحُول أَن
Makhul narrated that
حَدَّثَنَا narrated to us
Past-tense verb 'haddatha' = 'he related, reported'; '-na' = 'to us', so 'he reported to us'.
وعن الزهري، قال كان رجل يجالس أصحاب رسول الله ويحدثهم
Al-Zuhri said, 'There was a man who used to sit with the companions of the Messenger of Allah and talk to them.'
وَيُحَدِّثُهُمْ and talk to them
The wa- joins this to 'used to sit'. The present verb 'talk to' continues the past habit, and the attached -hum 'them' is its object, pointing back to the companions.
كان ابن عباس إذا جلس مع أصحابه حدثهم ساعة ثم قال حمضونا، فيأخذ في أحاديث العرب ثم يعود يفعل ذلك مرارًا
When Ibn Abbas sat with his companions, he would talk to them for an hour and then say, 'Refresh us,' and would start discussing Arab stories before returning, doing this repeatedly.
حَدَّثَهُمْ talk to them
A past verb 'talked to' with 'he' built in and the attached -hum 'them' as its object, pointing back to the companions; here it is the answer to the 'whenever', the habitual main action.
وقال ابن إسحاق كان الزهري يحدث ثم يقول
And Ibn Ishaq said Al-Zuhri used to narrate, then say
يُحَدِّثُ he narrates
A present-tense verb 'narrate' with 'he' built in, the habitual half of the 'was ... used to' frame, so 'he would narrate'.
حدثنا محمد بن العباس بن أيوب،
Muhammad bin Al-Abbas bin Ayyub narrated to us,
حَدَّثَنَا narrated to us
A past-tense verb that fuses its doer and its object: 'he narrated' with an attached 'us' on the end. This is the other standard chain-of-transmission opener; like its cousin meaning 'informed us', it names the teacher who passed the report to the students.
قال حدثنا عبد الرحمن بن يونس الرّقي قال
He said that Abdur Rahman bin Yunus Al-Raqqi narrated to us, saying,
حَدَّثَنَا narrated to us
A past-tense verb fusing subject and object into one word, 'he narrated' with 'us' attached. It is the formula that hands a report from teacher to student, naming who transmitted it down the line.
حدثنا مُطَرِف بن مازن عن الثوري قال
Mutarrif bin Mazin narrated to us from Al-Thawri, saying,
حَدَّثَنَا narrated to us
A past-tense verb that folds its subject and object together: 'he narrated' with an attached 'us'. It marks who transmitted the report to the next listener in the chain.
قال حدثنا يحيى بن يحيى
He said, 'Yahya ibn Yahya narrated to us.'
حَدَّثَنَا he narrated to us
Past-tense verb, 'he narrated', with 'us' attached, a standard transmission formula meaning the named person related the report to us. The 'us' are the receiving narrators.
فَقُلْتُ أَلَا تُحَدِّثِينِي عَنْ مَرَضِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسِلْمِ
So I said, "Will you not tell me about the illness of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace?"
تُحَدِّثِينِي you tell me
A present-tense verb addressed to a woman ('you' feminine, shown by its shaping) with an object pronoun 'me' attached to its end. One Arabic word thus carries the act, the feminine addressee, and the recipient all at once.
عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ ـ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ ـ حَدَّثَ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ،
Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated from Sa'd ibn Mu'adh,
حَدَّثَ he narrated
The standard chain-of-transmission verb, past tense with 'he' inside, meaning he passed the report on. It heads the report and is followed by 'from' marking the source he received it from.
حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ وَهْبٍ،
Zayd ibn Wahb narrated to us,
حَدَّثَنَا narrated to us
A past-tense verb of narrating with a built-in 'he' subject and an 'us' ending fused on. The suffix marks the recipients as 'us', the word covering 'narrated to us' in the chain.
وَيْلًا لِلَّذِي يُحَدِّثُ النَّاسَ فَيَكْذِبُ لِيَضْحَكَ النَّاسُ
Woe to the one who tells people things and lies to make them laugh.
يُحَدِّثُ he tells
A present-tense verb with its 'he' subject built into the shape, here transitive, 'tells / relates to (people)'. It fills the relative clause begun by the previous word, describing the habitual act of the one being cursed.
Common questions
- How do you say "narrated" in Arabic?
- حَدَّثَ (ḥaddatha) — the form II verb meaning to tell, relate, or narrate a story or tradition to someone.
- Is ḥaddatha the same as taḥaddatha?
- No. ḥaddatha (form II) means to tell or narrate something to someone (transitive); taḥaddatha (form V) means to talk or converse, often without a specified object.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).