The Fabricated Hadith: A Review On Its Implication To Society

This study reviews on the fabrication of hadith and its implication on society. By adopting content analysis method, this study found the first crisis to afflict the Muslim community when the Prophet's was left and rising the question who would succeed him as religious and political leader turn around the claims about the Prophet's words. It was a crucially malicious for the society due to their religious practices would be denied and even defaces their religious grasps. It was further more complicated, in which some of the people in a vulnerable and accept all the utterances purportedly attributed to the Prophet, without trying to find clarity about the authentic hadith, weak, or false. Certainly this causes serious results, because the damages which found on a fabricated hadith will be accepted and believed as the truth eventually. Hence, the scholars of hadith have always been tried to explain the position of the hadiths which are spread among the Muslims, as evidence of God's care for the purity of Islam until the end of time.