Classification of hadith fi’li in sahih Al-Bukhari based on contextual understanding on the Pillars of Islam

Sahih al-Bukhari is considered as the most authentic book of hadith. One of the important aspects in the hadith study is the hadith understanding. Contextual approach is one of the approaches in the hadith understanding. The Islamic scholars have written several books of commentaries in order to explain the hadith content based on its context. However, recent research shows that the hadith understanding level for the Muslim remains in at very moderate level. Previous researches show that existing contextual understanding of hadith are limited in method of qawli, mawdhu’i and muzawwaj. In this paper, a classification that grouped the contextual understanding of hadiths has been proposed in order to overcome this problem. This research focuses on the classification of hadith fi’li in Sahih al-Bukhari based on the Pillars of Islam. Qualitative approach that uses contextual analysis with aim to improve the level of hadith understanding was applied. The phases included the process of selecting hadith fi’li related to word “basara” in Sahih al-Bukhari, extracting their contextual understanding, and finally grouping them into the classifications based on the Pillars of Islam. This classification has five classes namely syahadah, solat, saum, zakat, haj. Based on the results, the contextual understanding of selected hadith involves three classes which are syahadah, solat and zakat.