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Assabile

The word محدث in the Quran

2 times in 2 verses

Every form of the word is counted (with article, prefix or pronoun), in the Hafs reading.

The word

  • مُحْدَث passive participle · newly revealed 2 times Root ح د ث

Surahs where it occurs most

  1. 21. Al-Anbya1
  2. 26. Ash-Shu’ara1

The 2 verses

Al-Anbya21:2

مَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن ذِكْرٍ مِّن رَّبِّهِم مُّحْدَثٍ إِلَّا ٱسْتَمَعُوهُ وَهُمْ يَلْعَبُونَ ۝٢

No mention [i.e., revelation] comes to them anew from their Lord except that they listen to it while they are at play

Ash-Shu’ara26:5

وَمَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن ذِكْرٍ مِّنَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ مُحْدَثٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا۟ عَنْهُ مُعْرِضِينَ ۝٥

And no mention [i.e., revelation] comes to them anew from the Most Merciful except that they turn away from it.

Why do the numbers differ from one website to another?

  • Some count the root (every word built on it), others a single word, others the exact form as written in the Mushaf: all three numbers are given here.
  • Prefixes and suffixes (و، ب، ال…) are taken into account; a search on the raw text may miss some, or count words from another root that are spelled the same way.
  • The counts follow the Hafs reading and the grammatical analysis of each of the 77,429 words of the Quran.

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