Mobile Learning In The Study Of Hadith: A Study On Students' Understanding On The Arrangement Of Sanad With Specific Symbol

Mobile learning has been used as an alternative in creating a creative, interesting, and effective learning environment; which has been widely used especially in this 21st century. The utilization of mobile learning should not be limited to science and technology related subjects only, but it is necessary for subjects related to Islamic studies. This study emphasizes the importance of mobile learning in the study of Hadith, as it is one of the Islamic legal sources. The subject on Hadith study has been taught traditionally for a thousand years, and the changes needed is only on the method of learning and teaching the Hadith which should not affect its content. Therefore, this study aims to observe the efficiency of mobile learning by developing a mobile application that focuses on the arrangment of sanad (chain of narrators). The hadiths selected are limited to the usage of symbols used by Imam Muslim, which is ‘ha’ (ح (which can be found in Sahih Muslim. This symbol was chosen because it has its own uniqueness and is more easily understood through syajarat al-asanid. This study is quantitatively in nature, and the sample chosen is students from Kolej Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Selangor (KUIS). A mobile application was developed to assist students in understanding the arrangement of sanad and visualising syajarat al-asanid in an accurate diagram. This study evaluates students’ responds towards the mobile application, and the findings show that learning using mobile application produced positive responses and generated better performance among the students. Therefore, a mobile application which was developed in thisstudy was made at the early module for other innovations in the field of Hadith which concerns specifically on sanad