Discover the meaning of the term Al-arbʿaʾ (أربعاء) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 1 min readIt is said: 'al-rabi'' is the small stream, and its plural is 'al-arba''; from it comes the hadith: 'they irrigated the land with what grows upon the small streams (al-arba')' [narrated by al-Bukhari in 'al-Shurut' (7)]. 'Al-arba'' is the known day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. [Talabat al-talaba p.
308]. 'Al-aratt': with the hamza opened and the ta' doubled; the author of 'al-Shamil' said: he is the one whose tongue has a 'ratta', merging one letter into another without articulating the letters clearly.
Among the days, it is the fourth day counting from Sunday, which is the first of the week.
A known day; in the hadith: 'they irrigated the land with what grows on the small streams', that is, with something known, thus in 'al-Majma''.