Root

ح-د-ث

ḥdth·7-d-th

36 occurrences36 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
حَدِيثḥadīth28—
تُحَدِّثُtuḥaddithu3—
يُحْدِثُyuḥdithu3—
مُحْدَثmuḥdath2—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ح-د-ث

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form IIفَعَّلَ3×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • تُحَدِّثُtuḥaddithu3
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ5×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُحْدِثُyuḥdithu3
    • مُحْدَثmuḥdath2

Covers 8 of this root’s 36 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ح-د-ث more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ح-د-ث falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-د-ث occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 36 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 30 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 73 pages — pages 12–84, juzʾ 1–5.

Occurrences · 36 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root ح-د-ث appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-د-ث (ḥdth) occurs 36 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 36 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does ح-د-ث occur?

36 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-د-ث (ḥdth), out of 36 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-د-ث?

ح-د-ث (ḥdth) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently حَدِيث (ḥadīth, 28×), تُحَدِّثُ (tuḥaddithu, 3×), يُحْدِثُ (yuḥdithu, 3×), and مُحْدَث (muḥdath, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.