مجلة أريد الدولية للعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية

Indeed, the reciter of the Holy Quran will realize that the expression of the noble Prophet is precise, devoid of blunders and derived from the glorious Quran. However, syntactic researches on the prophetic traditions have been neglected, even till recent times. This is owed to some factors which include the narration of the traditions with their wording, meaning and recounting. Thus, this work seeks to explore parenthesis in the traditions narrated verbatim. Although parenthesis is inadmissible in parsing, it remains one of the classifications of sentences in Arabic texts. Observably, the syntactical and rhetorical study of the prophet’s traditions is minimal, when compared to the attention of the syntacticians to the study of the Quranic expressions and Arab speech in poetry and prose. This is due to the difference of opinions of the syntacticians over the narration of the traditions. Based on that, this research aims to generally examine the likelihood of the stand of the classical and modern syntacticians on the study of expressions of the prophetic traditions syntactically, and specifically explore the parenthetical terms used by the classical and modern syntacticians. Also, it aims to analyze the styles of the parenthetical clauses and their rhetorical purposes in the traditions narrated by Ummu Salmah in Ibn Hanbal’s Musnad. This study is theoretical and qualitative in nature. As such, it employs descriptive analytical method to describe: how the syntacticians deal with the expressions of prophetic traditions, establish their stand on the study of the expressions based on the syntactical rules, and analyze the styles and structures of the parenthetical clauses contained in the traditions narrated by Ummu Salmah in Ibn Hanbal’s corpus. This is done to get the purposes of their usages in the texts. One of the primary outputs of this study is that the parenthetical clauses used in the traditions are characterized by some syntactical and rhetorical terms. And there are syntactical structures used in the textual contexts for rhetorical purposes.