This study aimed to show the grammarians’ reluctance to cite the Prophetic Hadith, and how they ignored it in their rulings. The early grammarians were interested in the Qur’an and the speech of eloquent Arabs as well, especially the early ones among them, without providing a convincing explanation for their failure to cite it. Rather, they remained silent about this position of theirs, which ultimately led to grammarians differing later on, and they were divided into three groups. One group followed the example of the early grammarians in not citing the Hadith, another took the Hadith as evidence in an absolute manner, and a third was intermediate between the two trends. Each of these groups had its own evidence for what it was going for. The reason for this reluctance to cite the Prophetic Hadith is that the ancient grammarians at that stage did not need to notice these tributaries of linguistic material, unlike what …
