ر س لsending; a messenger

رسول · rasūl · messenger

• Met in: V1 p9 ¶1e: «فقيل يا رسول الله ومن قراءة القرآن», "it was said: O Messenger of Allah, and better than reciting the Quran?"
• Dictionary form: رَسُول. Lane: "One who has a message; i. e. a messenger … one sent with a message … [and often meaning an apostle of God; and with the article Al especially applied to Mohammad]".
• Pattern: فَعُول (faʿūl), here with the sense of "one sent": Lane notes it is "of the measure faEuwlN in the sense of the measure mafoEuwlN". The verb is أَرْسَلَ, "he sent" (130 times in the Quran).
• Meaning here: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ, addressed by name in a question: is a scholar's gathering better even than reciting the Quran?

Ibn Faris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, root رسل, vol 2, p 392

الراء والسين واللام أصل واحد مطرد منقاس، يدل على الانبعاث والامتداد

One origin, regular and consistent: it points to being sent out and going on and on. Further down the entry he adds «والرسول معروف», "and the messenger is well known".

Urdu bridge

رسول (messenger) and رسالت (being a messenger) are Urdu; so are ارسال (sending, as in ارسال کرنا) and رسالہ (a treatise or magazine: a message on paper). (to be confirmed)

Quran

513 words from this root (Quranic Arabic Corpus). Most common: رَسُول (messenger) ×332, أَرْسَلَ (he sent) ×130, مُّرْسَل (one sent) ×35.

هُوَ ٱلَّذِى بَعَثَ فِى ٱلْأُمِّيِّـۧنَ رَسُولًا مِّنْهُمْ يَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَٱلْحِكْمَةَ وَإِن كَانُوا۟ مِن قَبْلُ لَفِى ضَلَٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ

It is He who has sent among the unlettered a Messenger from themselves reciting to them His verses and purifying them and teaching them the Book and wisdom - although they were before in clear error -

Surah Al-Jumu'a (62), ayah 2 · Saheeh International

Why this ayah: «رَسُولًا مِّنْهُمْ», "a Messenger from themselves", who teaches them the Book and wisdom: one of the three ayat behind V1 p9 ¶13c.

In the Ihya

رسول: 2,140 times in the Ihya.