Repetition and Temporal Parallelism in the Holy Hadith (Stylistic Study)

Abstract

The artistic language is distinguished from ordinary language in that it is charged with special expressive and influential energies, which leads to a change in the structure and meaning. In formulating its phrases or structures, aesthetic language often resorts to special musical consistency and harmony of the shapes, structures, and sections in the text, as relying on repetition, despite its different forms, is a mean of conveying the idea to the reader’s soul, establishing it and confirming it, leading to his feelings of desire and acceptance or rejection and aversion. We have found that the repetitive patterns in the texts of the Holy Hadith are remarkably diverse, so we can classify them into three groups: (1) Repetition in the single and compound form. (2) Verbal repetition. (3) Syntactic and syllabic repetition (parallelism). Therefore, in our research, we chose to go into detail on every form of each group separately, and clarify the functions of repetition for the event or group of events in the text, and its relationship to the repetition of the event or scenes in the reference time outside the text, by studying it as a descriptive stylistic study that takes a new path in dealing with the linguistic structure of the Holy Hadith in a way that previous studies have not done before, and investigates accuracy in detecting the aesthetics of uses despite their different structural formations