Arabic vocabulary
حَدَّثَنَاnarrated to us in Arabic
حَدَّثَنَا is how you say “narrated to us” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَحَدَّثَنَا حَبِيبُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، وَالْأَعْمَشُ، وَعَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ رُفَيْعٍ،
Habib ibn Abi Thabit, al-A'mash, and Abd al-Aziz ibn Rufay' narrated to us,
وَحَدَّثَنَا — and narrated to us. The connector wa- opens this transmission line, on a past 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'.
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