Lexical analogy with polysomic implications in Prophetic Hadith terms

Abstract

This purpose of this study is to explore the analogy of lexis with different semantic implications in Prophetic Tradition as a branch of Hadith Science and its impact on understanding the Hadith meaning and wording. The study is divided into two chapters. The first chapter introduces the foundational aspects of this science and is subdivided into three sections. Section one defines the concept both lexically and functionally, as a Hadith Science, branch, demarcating it from homophones. Section two discusses the emergence of and need for this branch as an under-researched new inquiry area, with no previous literature except those relating to Holy Quran and not Hadith. Section three lists four resource categories for this branch: Hadith difficult terms books, Hadith annotations, dictionaries and other miscellaneous sources along with illustrative names and examples. The second chapter, subdivided into five sections where terms are classified into two, three, four, five and nine forms, is a study of some select models of Hadith analogous lexis with polysomic implications. The study revealed that Hadith lexical analogy with polysomic implications is a new piece of research ever done in Hadith Science till date.