The typology of words and its role in understanding the hadith with emphasis on the views of Allameh Hilli

As the language of Hadiths (similar to the common code) bears advantages compared to the common words of the people besides bearing divine instructions, their reading and understanding require particular reflection concerning the coinage and application of the words. In the language of Hadiths where the fundamental structure is comprised of the lexical meaning and the common code, words constructed by Islam and the prophetic sharia can be observed; thus, rhetorical structures like rhetorical simile and trope (in its various forms including metaphor and allusion) are commonly found in them. As a vanguard Usuli of the Mutaakhirin Era, Allamah investigated the Arabic vocabulary in several works like “Nihayat al-Wusul Ila Ilm al-Usul” and analyzed the typology of words concerning meaning during their coinage and application. The current study aimed to explain the most fundamental types of words and investigate the role of such differences and their influence in understanding Hadiths according to Allamah. Thus, the results showed that paying attention to the type of words applied in Hadiths leads to understanding them accurately and correctly, but ignoring such typologies during their interpretation causes their misunderstanding.