The Practice of Reciting Asmā` al-Ḥusnā in Weekly Ḥalaqa

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Abstract

The practice of reciting asmā`ul-ḥusnā by certain groups is in most cases intended to be a form of afterlife-oriented worship. Seeing the practice more closely, as practiced by the customer of the Bank Wakaf Mikro this article argues that the practice indeed has in itself a formal-substantive part, that is the recitation of asmā`ul-ḥusnā. It also at the same time argues that the very practice serves as a means to generate social/cultural benefit for the performers. Furthermore, the practice observed in this research also finds its root on the prophetic hadith and thus a practice of living hadith. It shows that there has been a transmission and transformation of the hadith in both the text and content that results in, among others, the practice of reciting asmā`ul-ḥusnā by certain groups in a greatly varying ways

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Luthfi, A. W. (2020). The Practice of Reciting Asmā` al-Ḥusnā in Weekly Ḥalaqa. Jurnal Living Hadis, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.14421/livinghadis.2020.2335

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