Matn (Arabic: متن) (literally "body", "text"[1]) is an Islamic term that is used in relation to Hadith terminology.
It means the text of the hadith, excluding the isnad.
A hadith is made of both an isnad (chain of transmission) and a matn.
A hadith would typically adopt the following formula: The matn would most often come in the form of an injunction, proverb, aphorism, brief dialogue or anecdote whose sense might apply to a range of new contexts.
This is due to what they perceive as instructions from the Prophet Muhammad, the Shi'a Imam, and from the Qur'an itself, which says: