Arabic root

ر-د-د

Ra-Dal-Dal

2 words from this root family

About this root

Ra-Dal-Dal (ر-د-د) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: riddah (apostasy / turning back (from faith)), radda (to reply / to return (something)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 59 times in 57 verses, across 30 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:85. The form رَدَّ (to reply / to return (something)) accounts for 36 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Verbs, Communication

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
رِدَّةٌ riddah	apostasy / turning back (from faith)	noun, B2		Advanced Quranic & Islamic Terminology
رَدَّ radda	to reply / to return (something)	verb, A1	36×	Action Verbs - Making & Creating

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

وَدَّ كَثِيرٌ مِّنْ أَهْلِ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ لَوْ يَرُدُّونَكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ إِيمَـٰنِكُمْ كُفَّارًا حَسَدًا مِّنْ عِندِ أَنفُسِهِم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُمُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۖ فَٱعْفُوا۟ وَٱصْفَحُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِىَ ٱللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِۦٓ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

Many of the people of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them. Forgive and be indulgent (toward them) until Allah give command. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things.

Quran 2:109

يَـٰقَوْمِ ٱدْخُلُوا۟ ٱلْأَرْضَ ٱلْمُقَدَّسَةَ ٱلَّتِى كَتَبَ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَلَا تَرْتَدُّوا۟ عَلَىٰٓ أَدْبَارِكُمْ فَتَنقَلِبُوا۟ خَـٰسِرِينَ

O my people! Go into the holy land which Allah hath ordained for you. Turn not in flight, for surely ye turn back as losers:

Quran 5:21

إِنَّمَا يَسْتَـْٔذِنُكَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ وَٱرْتَابَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ فَهُمْ فِى رَيْبِهِمْ يَتَرَدَّدُونَ

They alone ask leave of thee who believe not in Allah and the Last Day, and whose hearts feel doubt, so in their doubt they waver.

Quran 9:45

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

B2noun

رِدَّةٌ

riddah

apostasy / turning back (from faith)

Example

وَمَنْ يَرْتَدِدْ مِنْكُمْ عَنْ دِينِهِ فَيَمُتْ وَهُوَ كَافِرٌ فَأُولَئِكَ حَبِطَتْ أَعْمَالُهُمْ

wa-man yartadid minkum ʿan dīnihī fayamut wa-huwa kāfirun fa-ulāʾika ḥabiṭat aʿmāluhum

And whoever of you reverts from his religion and dies as a disbeliever - for those, their deeds are nullified (2:217)

Root: ر-د-د Quranic

Grammar

Feminine noun (maṣdar). Verb: اِرْتَدَّ (Form VIII, to turn back/apostatize). مُرْتَدٌّ (apostate). The Quranic consequence is nullification of deeds and loss in the afterlife.

Culture

The Quran addresses riddah as a spiritual consequence, not prescribing earthly punishment - the nullification is of deeds in the afterlife.

A1verb

رَدَّ

radda