PROBLEMATIKA PERILAKU BIDAH DALAM KRITIK HADIS

This article aims to discuss the heretic (bid‘ah) issues related to ḥadith naration. It actually has been a topic of discussion among muslim scholars (ulama). Some of them refuse the reliability of those ḥadith narrated by the heretics, but some others maintain to receive their narration. This topic has become a polemical disputatation for the heretics are usually labelled negatively as “ahl al-ahwâ’ wa al-bida‘”, which in turns, brings them into a low level of personal degree. Interestingly, some of the heretics narrators are quoted and narrated by the major ḥadith scholars like al-Bukhâri and Muslim. This article argues that ḥadith scholars have revealed a neutral and objective position in appraising the narration of ḥadith from those accused as heretics.