الْحَدِيثِthe report

Example sentences

• قَالَتْ فَقُلْتُ لِمَ قَالَتْ إِنَّهُ نَمَّاً ذِكْرَ الْحَدِيثِ

  She said, so I said, "Why?" She said, "Indeed he was a slanderer of the mention of the report."

  الْحَدِيثِ — the report. This noun carries al- ('the') and completes the possessive pairing opened by the previous word, so it takes the genitive ending as the owning second half. The two words bind directly with no separate 'of'.

  From: Aisha Cleared of Slander →

• فَإِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ مَا غَوَّايَتُهُمْ بِالْحَدِيثِ إِلَّا كَغَوَّايَةِ الْمُصَارِعِ وَالسَّاعِيِ وَلاَعِبِ الْحَمَّامِ،

  For indeed these people, their misguidance by hadith is no more than the misguidance of the wrestler, the runner, and the pigeon-player.

  بالحديث — by hadith. The prefix bi- here marks the means, 'by way of', heading the noun for transmitted reports: their straying 'by hadith'. The preposition forces the 'of'-style ending and names the instrument through which the misguidance works.

  From: Humility Over Fame →

• ثُمَّ قَالَ فِي آَخِرِ الْحَدِيثِ

  Then he said at the end of the hadith:

  الْحَدِيثِ — the hadith. A definite noun 'the hadith' completing the pair, in the genitive. Set beside 'end', it forms 'the end of the hadith' directly, without a separate 'of'.

  From: Faith and Worship →