Norsaleha Mohd. Salleh,
Mohd Farid Ravi Abdullah, Abur Hamidi Usman, Rosni Wazir, Abu Zaki Ismail, Nurul Ain Burhanuddin
Kolej Universiti Islam Antarbangsa Selangor,
Malaysia
norsaleha@kuis.edu.com
Abstract
Living Hadith is a cultural phenomenon practiced by a particular society and based on the hadith of the Prophet pbuh. It is a behavioral pattern resulted by the interaction of Muslims with the hadith. This study examines the extent to which the sunnah is practiced by the Muslim community in Malaysia, in addition to explaining the concept of “practicing the sunnah” in the perspective of Living Hadith as a research genre. In doing so, I interview five respondentsincluding muftis, academics, and religious figures who are active in the community. The findings show that the Muslim community barely knows the text of the hadith. They simply practice the content or what they believe to be the teaching of the prophetic hadith, encapsulating in their custom. Performing this, they have the rooted tendency to live in line with the religious and moral demands of Rasulullah pbuh. However, the community also needs to be ‘taught’ to see this practice as a sort of encouragement to perform good deeds. This practice nevertheless is not at the same obligatory level as the command to perform five daily prayers and Ramadan fasting. In other words, the Malaysian society sees the ‘living hadith’ as merely the practice of sunnah that is thus still related to the Prophet pbuh.
Keywords: Phenomenon; Living Hadith; Practice; Field research, Malaysia
Abstrak
Living Hadith adalah fenomena budaya masyarakat yang disandarkan kepada hadis Rasulullah saw. Ia berupa pola perilaku yang merupakan sebahagian dari interaksi umat Islam terhadap hadis. Kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji sejauhmana pengamalan sunnah yang masih diamalkan dalam kalangan masyarakat Islam di Malaysia. Disamping memberi penerangan tentang pengamalan sunnah dalam perspektif Living Hadith. Metodologi kajian adalah berdasarkan temu bual lima orang responden yang terdiri daripada mufti, ahli akademik, tokoh agama yang aktif bersama masyarakat. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan frasa living hadith kurang dikenali dalam masyarakat Islam di Malaysia, terdapat pengamalan sunnah dalam perspektif Living Hadith di Malaysia dan amalan sunnah merupakan adat yang sering diamalkan oleh masyarakat Melayu di Malaysia. Ia merupakan amalan murni yang perlu diterapkan dalam masyarakat agar selari dengan tuntutan agama dan akhlak Rasulullah saw. Namun begitu, masyarakat juga perlu dibimbing agar menerima amalan sunnah ini sebagai satu galakan dan dorongan kebaikan yang harus dilaksanakan. Ia bukanlah amalan wajib seperti hukum menunaikan solat dan berpuasa di bulan Ramadhan. Justeru itu, masyarakat Malaysia masih lagi melihat living hadith dalam konteks amalan sunnah yang masih mempunyai kaitan dengan hadis dan sunnah Rasulullah saw.
Kata Kunci : Fenomena; Living Hadith; Amalan; Kajian Lapangan, Malaysia
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