Open AccessA-11 Study of the Prophet’s Ḥadīth in the origins of the art of Arabic literature
Author(s) -
Abdul Majid Nadeem
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
al-iʿjāz taḥqīqī majallah barāʾe islāmiyyāt va insāniyyāt
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2707-1219
pISSN - 2707-1200
DOI - 10.53575/a11.v4.02(20).143-157
Subject(s) - arabic , islam , grammar , arabic literature , variety (cybernetics) , style (visual arts) , citation , literature , philosophy , history , classics , linguistics , art , theology , mathematics , law , statistics , political science
Arab sciences are blessed with all the blessings of the Qur’an and Ḥadīth in their inception and development, and ancient Qur’anic and modern studies are full of linguistic and literary studies. From this standpoint, there is a correlation between Islamic studies and linguistic studies. So that Arabic linguistic studies got the most from Qur’anic studies and then from the Ḥadīths of the Prophet, . There is no doubt in this matter that the prophetic Ḥadīth has a great influence on Arab literature. To study this interaction between Arabic literature and the Ḥadīth of the Prophet , the researcher makes use of four books in Arabic literature that Ibn Khaldun mentioned the origins of the art of literature in his famous saying. These are: Adab al-Kitab by Ibn Qutaybah, Kitab al-Kamil al-Mubarrad, Kitab al-Bayan wal-Tabyeen by al-Jahiz, and Kitab al-Nawadir by Abu Ali al-Qali al-Baghdadi.
The researcher believes that the authors of these four books paid great attention to the Ḥadīth of the Prophet, which make this aspect to be studied separately. Their interest is evident in the fields of morphology, grammar and rhetoric and Arabic history and literature. But they benefited a lot from the Ḥadīth of the Holy Prophet as well. They brought and reported the Ḥadīth for various reasons in a variety of styles; Sometimes they reported the Ḥadīth for it’s study, while at another they brought it as a linguistic citation to the other materials in terms of language and meaning and morphological, syntactical and rhetorical clarification. Hence, this study includes methodological points and features of these four books in reporting Ḥadīths.