Status Riwayat Perawi Majhul antara Penerimaan dan Penolakan

Abstract

The term Majhul denotes a classification within the study of hadith narrators, reflecting ambiguity regarding their reliability in transmitting prophetic traditions. This designation is commonly employed by hadith scholars to signify uncertainty about a narrator's character and trustworthiness. As a result, narrators categorized as Majhul are predominantly deemed dha'if (weak) by the majority of scholars, rendering the hadiths they transmit equally dha'if due to the inherent uncertainty surrounding their reliability. Extensive discussions on this classification are found across the corpus of ‘Ulum al-Hadith (The Sciences of Hadith). Nevertheless, is there a consensus among scholars that narrations from Majhul narrators are categorically dha'if? Or do divergent scholarly perspectives exist concerning the acceptability of their narrations? If alternative views are present, what are the arguments underpinning the assertion that such narrations are not dha'if? This study endeavors to critically examine the status of Majhul narrators by analyzing the factors that lead to their classification as weak, the degree of their weakness, and the validity of their narrations through the application of a rigorous content analysis methodology.