Journal of Maalim al-Quran wa al-Sunnah

This study aims to examine the opinions of Jamal al-Banna and Jasser Auda regarding abrogation in religious texts. Both figures are included in this study because they have different backgrounds of thought: Jamal al-Banna is known for his liberal thinking,while Jasser Auda is known as a progressive thinker who still follows the style of thought of mainstream scholars. This research is a qualitative-extractive study, with the main references being their two books related to abrogation:Tafnid Da’wa al-Naskh fi al-Quran al-Karimby Jamal al-Banna andNaqd Nadzariyyah al-Naskh: Bahtsun fi Fiqh Maqashid al-Syariahby Jasser Auda. Based on the research results, both argue that there is no abrogation in religious texts. One of the reasons they provide is that there is no strong evidence explaining the existence of abrogation in religious texts, especially given the disputes among scholars regarding the abrogating verse and the abrogated verse. According to both of them, abrogation has implications for changes in theshariah (Islamic law), so the evidence supporting its existence must be strong.

Hadith yang diriwayatkan secara al-tafarrud iaitu hadith yang diriwayatkan secara bersendirian dan tiada riwayat lain yang mengiringinya memberi indikasi bahawa tidak wujud hadith lain yang diriwayatkan. Dalam erti kata lain, hadith yang diriwayatkan secara al-tafaruuditu tidak mempunyai riwayat sokongan dalam bentuk mutaba'at iaitu perkongsian periwayatan hadith oleh seorang perawi dengan perawi yang lain. Namun demikian, terdapat hadith-hadith yang disifatkan oleh sebahagian sarjana hadith sebagai al-tafarrudnamun kemudiannya dinyatakan oleh sarjana hadith lain bahawa terdapat al-mutaba'at bagi hadith tersebut. Justeru, artikel ini akan menganalisis faktor-faktor yang menjadi penyebab fenomena ini berlaku. Kajian yang dijalankan ini adalah berbentuk kualitatif sepenuhnya yang melibatkan pengumpulan data melalui kajian keperpustakaan. Data-data tersebut dianalisis berdasarkan kaedah induktif.Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa terdapat tiga faktor dan salah satu darinya adalah kerana perawi yang meriwayatkan hadith dalam bentuk al-mutaba ah tersebut berada pada kedudukan yang terlalu daif dan tidak boleh dijadikan sebagai hujah.

This study is prompted by the presence of particular phrases in the Qurʾān that highlight Prophet Mūsā’s distinctive attributes, what can be termed his “personal branding.” These phrases provide a lens through which to compare the Qurʾānic portrayal of Prophet Mūsā’s character with commonly held perceptions. The research aims to uncover the deeper meanings behind these personal branding elements and to encourage reflection on their significance. Employing a qualitative methodology, the inquiry centers on verses narrating Prophet Mūsā’s story. Al-Zamakhsharī’s semantic theory guides the examination of the linguistic features of these phrases, while Peter Montoya’s “The Eight Laws of Personal Branding” helps classify the aspects that shape Prophet Mūsā’s personal brand. The findings indicate that Prophet Mūsā’s personal branding is established through four key dimensions: specialisation, leadership, personality, and differentiation. These facets emerge from eight Qurʾānic descriptors—al-Qawiy, al-Amīn, Mukhlaṣ, Rasūl, Nabiyyā, Ghaḍbān, al-Kalīm, and al-Aʿlā. The study concludes that the narrative verses of the Qurʾān can be analyzed not only for their moral guidance but also for the insights they offer into the personal branding of their central figures.

Pendidikan Islam (PI), known as Islamic Education is classified as one of the compulsory subjects for all Muslim students in the secondary schools in Malaysia with the implementation of the Kurikulum Bersepadu Sekolah Menengah (KBSM) in 1989. Since 2012, Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah (PBS) was implemented in Islamic Education subject. Among the objectives of the Islamic Education curriculum outlined by the Ministry of Education (MOE) is that students can understand the meaning of some Quranic verses and Hadith quotes so that they can apply it as a source of Islamic law and guidance from Allah. This study was conducted to analyze and identify the status of all hadiths included in Pendidikan Islam textbooks for Form Two KBSM. Nowadays, many students, teachers, and the general public are not aware of the spread of fabricated hadiths in the syllabus of Pendidikan Islam textbooks at the secondary school level. It will certainly give a negative impact on the faith of Muslims in Malaysia. Based on the research findings there are 49 hadiths have been included in this textbook which was classified to hadith sahih (authentic hadith), hasan sahih, hasan hasan sahih gharib, da�if and also mawdu� (fabricated hadith).

The main agenda of feminism movements is to fight for gender equality between women and men. This agenda is advocated both by the Western as well as by some Muslim feminists. In Malaysia, a Muslim activist group who aggressively fight for gender equality is known as Sisters in Islam (SIS). This group has challenged and questioned the validity and reliability of the interpretation of some Quranic verses related to women, as it is felt that some of the verses were misinterpreted. To the group, the misinterpretation of the verses has led to misunderstanding regarding the positions and rights of women, which resulted into gender inequality. This paper aims to discuss the standpoint of SIS concerning gender equality by focusing on several issues; the superiority of men (qawwamah), the credibility of women as witness and the rights of women to be an imam. An analytical technique is used to analyse the SIS group’s viewpoint on the issues by referring several printed sources and articles published. These views will be compared with prominent Muslim scholars’ interpretation on related verses that has been used to find any contradiction or misinterpretation. The study concluded that SIS holds a misleading understanding on the interpretation of certain Quranic verses led by misrepresented claims on the unfounded contradiction between the verses of the Quran

Falsification of hadiths has spread tremendously among society as the dissemination of fabricated hadiths has been normalised among the public and Islamic and religious scholars. This issue is not a new phenomenon but has been evolving since the hadiths were transmitted orally and developed through writing such as books and so on. It is also a well-known fact that hadith scholarship's contribution via writings includes written materials from the current and past Islamic and religious scholars, including Siamese scholars. This article aims to discover the authenticity of hadiths in ‘Kitab al-Nikah’ from the book of ‘Bulughul Maram min Adillat al-Ahkam’ written by al-Hafiz ibn Hajar (m. 852H). Even though al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar mentioned the majority of the sources for the hadiths, yet there are some hadiths which sources are left unmentioned. He also divided the hadiths into thematic points, although few hadiths have not been categorised under suitable themes. All of the hadiths will be analysed in terms of their authenticity, tanasub and suitability in terms of nikah. In order to identify the status and authenticity of the hadiths, a specific method will be used: takhrij (retrieval) based on the theme of the hadiths. A descriptive method will be used to analyse the hadiths in the tanasub point of view and the suitability of the hadith towards certain themes. The research showed that 86% of the hadiths found in ‘Kitab al-Nikah’ are authentic and based on authorised and muktabar books of hadiths. In addition, 95% of the hadiths chosen were relevant and suitable with the theme of nikah.

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi addressed many issues on the Muslim way of life in his famous tafsīr, Risale-I Nur. The discussion and commentaries in this tafsīr, which were written during the 1910s and 1950, are still relevant to many present-day issues. This study aims to seek out his opinions on women’s issues as well as his reasoning behind the commandments of the Qur’ān and Sunnah related to them. This study will focus on the chapters and the sub-chapters in Risale-I Nur and their commentaries on women’s issues and proposed solutions. This qualitative study utilizes the deductive and inductive methods, as all of the selected commentaries will be examined and categorised accordingly to the corresponding issue. The result indicates that there are several women’s issues discussed in Risale-I Nur, as well as Bediuzzaman Said Nursi advices on how to utilize women’s potential appropriately.

Islam teaches its adherents to practice the noblest forms of ethics and morality called Akhlak. Akhlak or Islamic ethics and morality provide peace in human life, whether to an individual or the community and portray the image of Islam as a religion of mercy for all. However, in the context of UiTM students where Malay Muslims are the majority, the rise in problems related to unethical behaviors among them poses an important question, what do the Malay Muslims in Malaysia understand about being a Muslim? What are their beliefs about the purpose of professing the Islamic faith? By taking a group of UiTM students who are largely composed of Malay Muslims, this study analyses their level of belief regarding the purpose of religion. A total of 1313 students from all UiTM branches in Peninsular Malaysia were selected as respondents through the group strata sampling technique. Data from the questionnaire were analyzed using SPSS (Version 12.0). Frequencies, percentages, and means were reported for each sub-construct. The study concludes that students’ belief about the purpose of religion is still tied to aspects of cultural, ritual and customs. Hence, the inculcation of students’ belief in religion should be reinforced by the understanding of the basic essentials of Islam and the Unity of God (Tawhid) so that students recognise and acknowledges with certainty that the purpose of religion is to accomplish the goal of creation and to realise the original covenant entered with Allah SWT in the day of alastu. Belief in the purpose of religion should be linked to the goals of creation and to the covenant made.

Since 2005, the Faculty of al-Quran and Sunnah Studies in Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) has published Ma‘alim al-Quran wa al-Sunnah as a trilingual and bi-annual journal. The 16-year-old journal underwent a lengthy process of improvement before obtaining MyCite recognition in 2019. Since its inception, the journal has successfully published a total of 187 quality articles in the field of Quranic and Sunnah studies. This article then examines journal publication statistical data from the first publication in 2005 to 2020. As a result, the quantitative approach to statistically evaluating the findings was chosen as the research method. This study's findings are associated with writing patterns such as writing language, author gender, authors affiliation, writing frequency, and writing field. According to the findings, 408 authors published a total of 186 articles, with the majority of 323 are men. The data also show that 116 articles were in Arabic, 54 articles were in Malay, and the rest were in English. In this journal, single authorship is the most preferred method (92 articles), and the highest page number ratio is 11 to 20 pages (78 articles). Quranic studies account for 53.23% of the articles, and thematic studies are the most popular among authors, accounting for 55 articles. Malaysian authors contribute the most articles (267) followed by Jordanians (41). The authors with the most contributions, 250 in total, were all affiliated with USIM.

Islamization of social sciences is a collective religious obligation (farḍ al-kifāyah) to serve the Muslim community. Thus, it is steadily progressing after being established last century. However, the Western secularly oriented social scientists as typically sceptical, especially the positivistic, or post-positivistic ones. Moreover, editors of established journals also are reluctant to acknowledge the application of traditional Islamic methodologies in the Islamization of Knowledge (IoK) researches due the methodological integrity issues such as the validity issues according to their practice. But then, Islam has a lengthy history of traditional methodologies dated back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. whose prophethood began in the seventh century C.E. Since then, he had founded initial Thematic Analysis methodology in interpreting the Holy Qur'an with another relevant part of it intertextually, and his prophetic guidance (al-Sunnah), which is more developed in the Fundamentals of Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh) for its significant role to the Islamic Jurisprudence (al-Fiqh al-Islamī). Thus, by rights it has to be equivalently recognized like other de/post-colonial/subaltern methodologies especially when it is being used in IoK movement that revers the revelation (al-Naqlī) above the human intellect (al-ᶜAqlī). This paper is a comparative study between the Reflexive Thematic Analysis method that is commonly used in the Social Sciences and the Qur’anic Thematic Analysis (QTA – Al-Tafsīr Al-Mauḍūᶜī) methodology under the Qur’anic Sciences (ᶜUlūm al-Qur’ān). Some compatible methodological fusions allowable in Islam are suggested for the QTA to stay relevant in merging the Islamic Studies into the contemporary Social Sciences.

Segala bentuk percakapan, perbuatan, pengakuan, sikap serta sifat fizikal Rasulullah SAW dirakamkan di dalam hadis. Baginda SAW merupakan contoh terbaik kepada sekalian umat manusia.Terdapat banyak kajian berkaitan hadis yang mengupas tentang keistimewaan baginda SAW ini, namun ia masih bersifat umum dan tidak mengaitkannya dengan jenis hadis mahupun mana-mana perkataan tertentu yang merujuk kepada perbuatan baginda. Justeru, kajian ini akan memberi fokus terhadap hadith fi’li iaitu hadith yang merekodkan perbuatan Baginda SAW. Hadith fi’li yang dipilih ialah hadith yang mengandungi perkataan “basar” iaitu merujuk kepada penglihatan Baginda SAW. Bersesuaian dengan kedudukan Baginda SAW sebagai model terbaik kepada seluruh umat manusia, Baginda SAW membawa contoh “akhlaq” terpuji dalam setiap perlakuan termasuklah penglihatan Baginda SAW itu sendiri. Oleh itu, kajian ini wajar dilakukan untuk meneroka konsep “akhlaq” yang terkandung di sebalik perkataan “basar” yang merujuk secara langsung kepada penglihatan Baginda SAW. Limitasi kajian ini tertumpu kepada hadith dalam Sahih al- Bukhari dan ia merupakan kajian berbentuk kualitatif, yang mengaplikasikan pendekatan analisis kandungan. Ia dibahagikan kepada beberapa fasa yang melibatkan dua proses utama iaitu proses pengumpulan dan analisis data. Uniknya kajian ini kerana ia bukan sahaja tertumpu kepada hadith fi’li yang mengandungi perkataan “basar” semata, tetapi juga merangkumi kepada morfologi bagi perkataan tersebut. Hasil kajian mendapati konsep “akhlaq” yang dihasilkan daripada hadith fi’li yang terkait dengan perkataan “basar” dan morfologinya boleh dibahagikan kepada empat kategori iaitu “akhlaq” kepada Allah, “akhlaq” kepada masyarakat, “akhlaq” kepada pasangan serta “akhlaq” kepada diri sendiri.

Hadith refers to the speeches, actions, tacit approval and characteristics of Prophet Muhammad PBUH. It contains many aspects of Islam and life such as creed, ibadah, ethics and others. Ibadah (Act of Worship) is pivotal for Muslims as it depicts the ritual of devotion to Allah. The word sami'a which defines hearing is well-known in the world of hadith as it has been used as one of the methods of narration. Apart from that, the word sami'a has also been mentioned numerous times in the matan section of hadith. However, the study pertaining to the extraction of the word sami'a in matan is limited. Moreover, the number of research pertaining to the relationship between the word sami'a with ibadah in hadith is also restricted. Hence, this study intends to analyze the word sami'a, its synonym and morphology from the aspect of ibadah (Act of Worship) in Hadith Qawli from Sahih al-Bukhari. In addition, the context of the hadith is also extracted and described, in order to expand the understanding of each hadith. Several phases involving data collection and data analysis processes were conducted in order to achieve the purposes of this study. First, the word sami'a, its synonym and morphology were listed and referred to kitab al-Takhrij and hadith software. Then, the Hadith Qawli containing word sami'a were extracted prior to data analysis phase. Next, Hadith Qawli related to ibadah were chosen and referred to the commentaries book. Lastly, the descriptions of hadith on aspect of ibadah were described according to their own context. Results of the study showed that, there were a few hadith containing the word sami'a in the context of ibadah (Act of Worship). It can be concluded that the hearing aspect has its own function and it plays a pivotal role in ibadah perspective.

The research deals with an analytical study of the methodology of classifying the sciences of the Noble Qur’an with two prominent sciences, the first of which is Jalal Imam al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 911 AH), in his book “Perfection in the Sciences of the Qur’an”, and the other by Imam Muhammad ibn Aqeelah al-Makki (d. 1150) in his book “The Increase and Charity” In the science of the Qur’an, and the reason for choosing the subject comes from the importance of the science of the Qur’an, as it is the first Islamic science recorded for its connection to the Holy Qur’an, and if its curricula are different, as well as highlighting the efforts of prominent scholars and their approach to authorship and their method of transfer from those who preceded them, and what the later adds to the former, and his method in that The increase, and the effect of the first in the aftermath by showing what was agreed upon Two books of the types of the science of the Qur’an, and what they differed about, and what was unique to the late Ibn Aqeela and what increased it from the types of Qur’an’s science, as Ibn Aqeelah’s rank reached the peak of maturity in this field. And the types of Qur’an sciences in the two worlds, and the approach of each of them in its author, and the effect of the two books on the scientific movement, then the conclusion. My method of research is the descriptive desk approach to collecting, studying, analyzing, and extracting results from it, and from the results that the research reached that Ibn Aqeelah was more branching For the sciences of the Qur’an and a survey of this Science, and had a great impact in facilitating the understanding of the book of God and ponder, and to enrich the library of Islamic sciences.

The world's transition to an endemic phase has had a significant impact on the global community's mental health. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts a silent pandemic related to mental health due to Covid-19 during this phase. This can be attributed to the increased pressures of post-pandemic life, including economic aspects and changes in daily routines. Mental health issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, and burnout have been identified. Therefore, initiatives like complementary psychotherapy are crucial for maintaining mental well-being. This study aims to discuss the theoretical dimensions of complementary psychotherapy in Tafsir al-Qurtubi. The focus is on a compilation of interpretations of 18 verses related to tafakkur (contemplation) found in 13 surahs. Using a qualitative method with a thematic content analysis approach, the study reveals that Imam al-Qurtubi's compilation of interpretations of āyāt al-tafakkur is comprehensive and aligns with several dimensions of psychotherapy. These dimensions include the recovery of traumatic experiences, re-education, reassurance, and psychological support. The combination of interpretations clearly demonstrates Imam al-Qurtubi's contribution to developing a complementary approach for preserving psychological well-being. In conclusion, the compilation of interpretations of āyāt al-tafakkur by Imam al-Qurtubi deserves recognition as a valuable part of the theoretical foundation of complementary psychotherapy in managing mental well-being during the endemic phase.

This paper explores the Qur’anic factors for nation’s rise and fall. It highlights on how the divine law, sunnatullah, is functioning in this connection. The researcher depends on the textual analysis method dealing with relevant verses of the Quran. Hence, various types of Tafsir books were consulted. The findings include as follows: according to Quran, the universe is created and regulated in a systematic way which makes it a cosmos and not a chaos. This system is called sunnatullah, the natural laws of cause and effect. The case of nation’s rise and fall is also governed by the same divine system. The Quran depicts the standards and virtues such as strong belief system, righteous deeds, justice, reformation, renewal, having knowledge and wisdom might raise a nation to the sublime position among other nations. Similarly, it refers to some factors such as luxury, injustice, religious extremism, disunity that could propel a nation from the sublime to the ridiculous. It is expected that this study would deliver a significant contribution to this subject.

Takhrīj hadith (retireieval of hadith) is being considered as a process of disclosing the position of hadith in its premier sources. In this era, this process has become among the matters that are highly demanded to be carried out by various parties to those who are quoting the hadith of the Prophet SAW in their writings. Among the objectives of it is to ease the reader to find the location of the hadith and its source that were quoted from and to preserve the hadith of the Prophet SAW from being manipulated. Meaning that, it can be an evidence to prove that the hadith is truly has its relation to the Prophet SAW and not an invention. Hence, Takhrīj hadith was stressed and became an important matter. Apart from these benefits, there are other benefits related to the Takhrīj that can be obtained in many aspects, especially pertaining with the matn and sanad. This article aims to analyse those benefits as well as describe its positiveness to the ummah dan to the hadith itself.