Hadith Writing Methodology in the Book of Ta’lim Al-Mutaalim By Shaykh Al-Zarnuji

Abstract

Shaykh al-Zarnuji is an Islamic scholar that well known in the Archipelago especially in Indonesia and Malaysia. His famous work is the book of Ta'lim al-Muta'alim, which is still widely used in some pesantran and pondok in Indonesia and Malaysia today. In this book, many hadiths are used as arguments (hujjah) but the status of the hadith is not explained as sahih or otherwise. The purpose of this study is to determine and analyse the methodology of hadith writing used by Shaykh al-Zarnuji and to reveal the extent of his knowledge and status as a scholar of the hadith through his book of Ta'lim al-Muta'allim. The research methodology used is document analysis by explaining and analysing the book focusing on the hadith writing methodology. This study found that Shaykh al-Zarnuji used several methods of writing the hadith in his book of Ta'lim al-Muta'allim: (i) writing the hadith without sanad and the narrator of the hadith, (ii) writing the hadith using Rawi al-A’la without narrator of hadith (iii) using the method of Riwayat Bi al-Ma'na (narrative of meaning). This study found that Shaykh al-Zarnuji had good skills and knowledge in hadith.