Methodology for Validation of Issuance of Mystical and Ethical Narrations (A Case Study and Discourse Analysis on the Methodology of the Book Sirr ul-asra’)

The Book “the Secret of Prophet Mohammad’s Midnight Journey to the Seven Heavens in Explanation of Al-Mi’raj Hadith” is written by Ayatollah Sa’adatparvar. Analyzing the discourse of a part of its introduction, his recognition method about this hadith has been investigated in this paper. The paper aims at investigating the particular discourse pattern of the author in analyzing the document of Mi’raj narration to reveal the hidden dimension of this discourse and adopting a meta-method, the methodological dimensions of this book are evaluated. Finally, by applying this particular case, the special requirements of document-mining in the mystical and ethical narrations are explained as a “general pattern” in a systemic manner. The theoretical framework of this study is based on theories of three sciences of “deduction principles”, “Rijal” “and “Derayat al-Hadith”, its methodology is a combination of discourse analysis and documentary method and the type of the study is analyico-descriptive based on case study. The results of the discourse analysis of this text include: discovery of the book’s scientific and technical infrastructures and usage of a more widespread range of conventional methods of document-mining i.e. fundamental, expertise and rijali analyzes of the Hadith document by the author; usage of three other methods based on methodology reason, the book and tradition including presentation of Hadith to the Holy Quran, presentation of Hadith to other narrations and obtaining credibility of Hadith by the help of experts (Hadith experts researching on mysticism and ethics).