Jurnal Living Hadis

Digital Hadith Reception: The Analysis of Netizen Involvement in the Istimnā' Hadith on the Instagram Account @surgadakwahofc

Syanando Adzikri — 2025-11-07

This study is motivated by the growing phenomenon of religious content dissemination, including hadith, through social media platforms such as Instagram. Although hadiths concerning istimnā’ (masturbation) are frequently cited in online religious discourse, there remains a research gap regarding how digital audiences interpret and respond to such religious texts. Addressing this gap, the present study seeks to answer two main questions: how do netizens receive the hadith on istimnā’ posted on the Instagram account @surgadakwahofc, and what factors influence the diversity of their reception? A qualitative approach was employed using content analysis of netizen comments on posts containing the hadith that prohibits deviant sexual behavior. Stuart Hall’s reception theory served as the analytical framework for identifying audience positions in decoding the religious message, namely, dominant-hegemonic, negotiated, and oppositional readings. The findings reveal that netizen reception is highly diverse and dynamic; some accept the hadith’s meaning textually, others negotiate it according to social context and personal experience, while a few reject it based on rational or modern moral reasoning. This diversity is influenced by social background, level of religious understanding, and individual value orientation. So, the hadith interpretation on social media is a dialogical process involving the interplay between text, context, and audience experience.

Bridging the Methodological Gap: Emic and Etic Paradigms in Evolving the Living Hadith Studies

M. Inul Rizkiy — 2025-09-13

The study of living hadith, while demonstrating the advancement of hadith scholarship, nonetheless leaves considerable room for further development. Moreover, researchers' awareness of the reality of hadith as a foundation for rituals still requires methodological strengthening, particularly concerning whether interpretations arise from the reception of practitioners within the tradition (emic) or from the researcher's own analysis (etic). This article aims to explore more deeply the concepts of emic and etic in living hadith studies, as well as their application in this field of research. Concretely, two fundamental questions form the basis of this study: First, how are emic and etic constructed in living hadith research? Second, what are the patterns of distribution of emic and etic within the dynamics of living hadith studies? These questions are examined using a systematic literature review approach, with data sourced from Google Scholar using the keywords "living hadis," "living sunnah," and "living hadith." The study data were limited to journals accredited by Sinta or Scopus and published between 2021 and 2025. Through data exclusion, 37 relevant articles were identified. The findings reveal four patterns of engaging with hadith: emic (16 articles), etic (16 articles), emic-etic (4 articles), and traditions not based on hadith (one article). Furthermore, within the five-stage research framework proposed by Saifuddin Zuhri, an etic approach is applied in the analysis of practice, an emic approach in the examination of reception and text, and an etic approach in the study of transmission and transformation.

Grounding an Integrative Paradigm in Reading and Interpreting Hadith Based on Scientific Approaches

Baiq Mira Nurfatihah — 2025-09-26

The issue of modernity has exerted a considerable influence on contemporary life, particularly through the persistent epistemological dichotomy that separates religion and science. This binary opposition fundamentally contradicts religious principles that serve as comprehensive guides for human life, especially given the numerous Prophetic traditions (hadith) that explicitly address scientific realities. This article examines integrative methodological approaches bridging hadith studies and scientific inquiry, framed by two primary research questions: First, what constitutes a scientific approach in hadith scholarship? Second, to what extent can scientific methodology be applied in interpreting, comprehending, and deriving meaning from hadith texts? Employing qualitative library research methodology, this study demonstrates the critical importance of an integrative approach in addressing complex contemporary issues that transcend traditional halal-haram juridical frameworks. The findings reveal that scientific approaches to hadith studies make significant contributions to expanding religious discourse beyond its conventional doctrinal-immanent limitations. As this methodology gains broader acceptance, hadith literature is progressively liberated from perceptions of rigid normativity or obsolescence, emerging instead as a dynamic intellectual tradition capable of substantive engagement with modern epistemological developments.