Semantic Fields of Animal-Related Words in The Book Fath Al-Qarib Al-Mujib: A Semiotic Approach

Abstract

     This study analyses the semantic domains of animal-related terminology and explores their connotations and meanings in Fath al-Qarib al-Mujib, authored by al-Fayyumi. This study seeks to elucidate al-Mundhiri's interpretations of the esteemed hadiths in his work al-Targhīb wa'l-Tarḥīb. He employed a strategy of simplification, elucidation, commentary, and categorisation, delivering a thorough scientific analysis in reading the hadiths, whose subjects spanned various facets of life. This research functions as an educational resource that illustrates human responsibilities in both this life and the afterlife, as well as obligations owed, in accordance with the teachings of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). We selected hadiths containing terms related to animals from the corpus of noble hadiths to analyse their semantic fields, facilitating an understanding of the hadith itself and the linguistic terminology inherent in its deeper semantic meaning. Accordingly, the results of this semiotic study became clear, in that the field indicating words related to animals is divided into signifiers related to animal names, and others related to their sounds, and is closely linked to the concept of the era, because linguistic symbols carried temporal indications that modern civilization changed in the use of many of its terms, to turn its pages, and to continue to guide us to past history, and the activity of the Arabs during the era of the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - with all that this activity knew of the connection of linguistic terminology to aspects of the economic and social life of the Arabs..