Plural of Few and its Implications in the Noble Prophet’s Hadith

(Sahih Muslim as an example)

Abstract

The importance of the research lies in the fact that it deals with the “plural of paucity” in the hadiths of the prophet, with the honorable Sahih Muslim as model. The research aims to determine the concept of the plural of paucity. And indicate the it’s rhymes as mentioned and explained by grammarians, in addition to extracting the positions of plural of paucity from prophet’s hadiths in Sahih Muslim along with indicating their contextual connotations. The research was built based on the descriptive inductive method, which comes down to selecting the plurals of paucity as course of the research and subject of study. Following that, the aim was also to choose the relevant hadiths in Sahih Muslim to be the main source adopted by the study to be referred to when analyzing the textual contexts in which the plurals (multitudes) of the paucity were mentioned, all to reveal the semantic aspects and the contribution of collecting paucities in service of meaning. The researcher came up to group of results, the most important ones were: All the plural forms in the hadiths were directly related to their desired meanings and served as direct indicators of the intended meanings to show the linguistic wealth that is seen in the hadiths to make an evidence that they are considered to be a great example that demonstrates the grammatical and morphological base of the language in addition to other features.