The Hadith Digitization in Millennial Era: A Study at Center for Hadith Studies, Indonesia

Istianah Istianah,Sri Wahyuningsih

doi:10.21043/qijis.v7i1.4900

Abstract

<p><em>The millennial era has been initially marked by the development of information technology. This article mainly explores the opportunities and challenges of digitizing hadith in the millennial era. This study belongs to a descriptive qualitative method. In-depth interviews with the Programmers of the Center for the study of Hadith in Jakarta, observation and documentation were conducted to gather data. The result reveals that digitizing the books of hadith provides an opportunity for everyone to access the books of hadith by downloading the hadith digitization application freely. Therefore, people can access the hadith books in both PDF and digital formats. On the contrary, it may lead to academic anxiety or challenges. This is because the hadith books in both PDF and digital formats can be deliberately changed by irresponsible people so that the authenticity of the information and the accuracy of the data will be questionable. Further, this tendency could be misused by certain people, by changing its contents and then disseminating it for the certain purposes. Regarding this, one of the ways to overcome this is by maintaining its authenticity, updating the content, and adding the copyright to the data source reference using the source check method.</em></p>

Highlights

| Istianah and Sri Wahyuningsih the copyright to the data source reference using the source check method
The development of technology may become one of the factors causing the spread of information rapidly. This is in accordance with Khan & Alginahi, (2014, p. 156) emphasizing that the development of technology has spread around the world rapidly. This rapid use of the internet is proved by the data of the Internet World Statistics describing that the total of internet users as of June 2018 exceeded 4 billion meaning that approximately 55, 1 % of the world population accesses the internet (Internet World Statistics, 2018)
The rapid growth of internet usage in Indonesia proves that the majority of Indonesian people including Muslims have already accessed kinds of digital information through the internet

Summary

Introduction

| Istianah and Sri Wahyuningsih the copyright to the data source reference using the source check method. In connection with the development of technology, hadith as the second source of Islamic law after the Qur’an nowadays are presented in PDF and digital formats making it easier for people to access them.

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