Symbolism of Segmented Hadiths in Narrative Books

Segmentation in the Hadith science means as separating one part of a Hadith that is subjected to a particular topic. Sometimes, muaddith or narrator, for various reasons, narrated some riwaya or narration, and point out to the segmentation with a series of specific terms. Recognizing the terms of segmentation leads to reducing the damage caused in Hadith, and will guide the audience of Hadith to the original source. Although these terms have not substantial number in narrative sources, but they show only part of the segmented Hadiths to researcher. The purpose of this article is the statistical analysis for segmentation of Hadiths in a vocabulary method. This study tries to refereeing straight to the narrative books, provide a historical picture of the narrators function in segmentation. Innovation of this paper is to provide a regular historical course for segmentation at different periods for Shia Hadith, and structure of the paper is divided based on the use of segmentation in four periods.