An Ontological Model of Hadith Texts

Abstract

The Hadith being the second source of legislation after the Holy Qur'an in the religion of Islam, it represents a large body of knowledge in unstructured textual form. The specification of Hadiths makes its automatic exploitation a rather robust and an almost impossible task. To enable different types of computer systems to exploit this knowledge, various researchers used a formal representation of the semantics of Hadith. The widely used semantic representation is ontology defined as concepts and relations extracted from the Hadith in the form of a structure interpretable both by the machine and the human. In this article, we propose an ontology of the Hadith using an approach inspired by the "METHONTOLOGY" methodology. In this project, we are dealing with religious texts in traditional Arabic, and we face many difficulties in achieving complete precision and correctness. Hence, we decided to follow an entirely manual process to ensure the correctness of the results. Since manual ontology development is both time and effort consuming, we decided to focus only on "Wudhu2" related Hadiths.

Arabic Ontology for Hadith texts - A survey

“…Based on research studies like [17], [35] and [36], it's crucial to establish an electronic system that makes it easy to access and retrieve Hadiths. This system should also clarify the relationships between different Hadiths and how they relate to each other.…”

“…The paper [35] highlighted the importance of constructing an ontology to represent the meaning of Hadiths and extract knowledge from the extensive textual sources available in Arabic. This ontology would facilitate visualizing overlaps between Hadith keywords and concepts in the Quran ontology [13].…”

“…Additionally, the proposed ontology could potentially be expanded in the future to automatically suggest treatments for specific illnesses based on the Prophet's actions [37]. Figure 4 shows an example of the conceptual model for the hadith ontology as in [35]. Saad et al in [36] established a framework to extract Islamic concepts, which was later utilized to construct an Islamic knowledge ontology.…”

Systematic Literature Review On The Ontology Representation Related The Hadith Corpus

“…Following that, Fairouz, Nora, and Nouha (2020) stated that the building of an ontology that captures the semantics of hadiths and knowledge may be retrieved from these vast textual sources of information in Arabic. This will eventually aid the displayed visualisation of hadith keyword overlaps and Quran ontology concepts (Altammami, Atwell & Alsalka, 2020).…”