An Analysis of Simile, Proverb, Synecdoche and Metaphor in Hadith Book of Imam an-Nawawi’s Riyad as-Salihin (the Gardens of the Righteous)

The purpose of this study are to identify the way of figurative language (simile, proverb, synecdoche and metaphor) used in Hadith book of Riyad as-Salihin by Imam An-Nawawi and to find out the most dominant of figurative language (simile, proverb, synecdoche and metaphor) found in Hadith book of Riyad as-Salihin by Imam An-Nawawi. This research was conducted by using qualitative research by using textual analysis as a research design. The material of this study were four chapters in Riyad as-Salihin, there are the chapter of good manners, the chapter of virtues, the chapter of knowledge and the chapter of prohibited actions, which contain 182 chapters. The result of this study showed that there are 48 types of figurative language in those four books of Riyad as-Salihin book. The dominant type of those four types of figurative language used in those four book in Riyad as-Salihin is simile with 47.92%, the second dominant type is followed by metaphor with 29.17%. Meanwhile, both types are lower than them, which are proverb with 14.58% and synecdoche with 8.33%.