Kalami Discourse Analysis of Ibn Maḥbūb Ḥadīths; Case Study: the Teaching of Monotheism

According to the method of discourse analysis and Bakhtin’s theory of contradictory sounds (Rus: raznorechie), the lingual events and actions produced in society are corresponding to rival discourses existing in the thought context of the society. The application of this approach in the Imamiyyah narrated kalam heritance would bring about to know the field of issue and narration of the ḥadīths, to read the kalami discourses existing in them and to know the belief sociology of the Imamiyyah narrators. In this research we try to analyze the discourse of ḥadīths of Ḥasan Ibn Maḥbūb (149- 224/766-838), one of the Aṣḥāb ul-Idjmā’ (companions of consensus) of the Imamiyyah, in the topic of monotheism. According to achievements of this research, the kalami discourse of Ibn Maḥbūb shaped in encounter to six rival discourses tried to attribute thoughts such as anthropomorphism, body, negation of Attributes, carrying and taking up position on the Throne, negation of badā’, ignorance of what is not happened and duality of creation to God. Thus, the kalami discourse of Ibn Maḥbūb shaped in a dialectic interaction with those discourses and in form of six discourse components.