The honorable Sunnah is the second source of Islamic legislation after the Holy Qur’an. Muslim scholars have been interested in preserving and codifying Ahadith because of their roles in the statement of the Holy Qur’an by allocating the general, restricting the absolute, and clarifying the total. The Prophet’s Sunnah was transmitted orally by isnad which began oral and then documented by the Ahadith scholars later on to form chains of narrators. Enriching Islamic electronic content is a great challenge for researchers. Although Arabic is a global language and ranked as the sixth most used language around the world that is spoken by more than 400 million people, it does not have a sufficient presence on the internet, compared to other languages. The Hadith refers to everything narrated from the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) regarding sayings, actings, or reporting. It is composed of two parts: Sanad and Matn. The importance of Hadith science can be summarized in An important source of legislation in Islam in which scholars and jurists rely heavily on in order to devise provisions that are an essential reference for people in their behavior and dealings, Interpretation and clarification of many of the provisions that were originally unexplained in the Holy Quran, Introducing the characteristics of the prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and an explanation of his life and how he dealt with his family and neighbors and Finally One of the ways of telling the unseen, in which belief is part of the Islamic faith. The Hadith Isnad tree is one of the branches of hadith science concerned with the study of the hadith chain of narrators, and it is a graph that clarifies the methods of the hadith narrations and shows the narrators and their ranks. It plays a significant role for researchers in studying hadith more clearly and accurately way to judge both Ahadith and their narrators. Ontology as a way of knowledge representation is a data model that depicts a group of concepts from a particular domain together with the relationships between those concepts. It has a great role in knowledge representation as it is simple and easy to understand and implement, and it is a method that organizes concepts systematically. This study aimed to build a dynamic ontological framework through which specialists in hadith science will be able to provide sufficient information about hadith, so that the ontology is able to save Ahadith, taking into account linking them to each other and with their narrators, which makes the process of Ahadith information retrieval easy and fruitful. The study was conducted on the Ablution Book from Sahih AlBukhari. To build an ontological framework we used a graph database represented as ontology O = (N, E) where the set N contains all nodes in the ontology O and they represent all possible data related to Ahadith like Rawi, Hadith, Place, Date, ...etc. and E is the set of the possible relations between nodes like “He told us”, “we heard”, “from”, “I saw”, etc. To implement this work, we used tools like Neo4j, Python, and MySQL. The ontology framework development process consists of several steps: Determine the domain of the ontology, Pre-processing of the corpus, Enumerate the important concepts in the ontology, Define a class hierarchy of the ontology, Define the properties of classes (slots), Define the facets (role restrictions) of the slots, and Create the instances. Neo4j is used to create the ontology while Python, HTML, and MySQL are used to implement other system functions. This work is developed of a set of components: User Web Interface, Narrator Database, Narrator Web Service, Searching Services, and dynamic Ontology Framework that links a given hadith with all its related data upon its addition to the database. Ontology evaluation is the task of measuring its quality and the process of evaluating it’s an important part of ontology development. Ontology can be evaluated from two key perspectives: quality and correctness. These two perspectives dealt with several criteria: Accuracy, Completeness, Conciseness, Adaptability, Clarity, Computational efficiency, and Consistency. This research was distinguished from other related research in several points: the process of expanding the ontology is totally automated by linking an added Hadith with all related ones that exist in the Ontology, the execution time of the different ontology operations (add, search, delete) is better than the traditional manual methods and databases, and the ability to visualize the narrator's nodes and their relationships as an interactive graph which makes it easier for specialists and those interested in the sciences of HAdith to identify new meanings through the connections between the narrators to open new horizons for research. This work is evaluated by executing several queries about the narrators, Ahadith, and the chain of Isnad that reflected promising work with respect to locating the proper information within a reasonable amount of time.

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The First International Conference & Expo on Innovation and Sustainability in Engineering & Technology

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Palestine

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June 14, 2023 - June 15, 2023

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