MAQĀSID AL-SHARĪA IN THE STUDY OF HADITH AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR THE RENEWAL OF ISLAMIC LAW: STUDY ON JASSER AUDA’S THOUGHT

Abstract

This article examines Jasser Auda’s maqasid approach to studying hadith and its implications for the renewal of Islamic law. Generally speaking, one way to gain a closer understanding of the purpose of the hadi@th is through contextualizing the Prophetic narrations (hadi@th), primarily when the scripture cannot be understood textually. Using a descriptive-analytic and critical approach, this study showed that the conception of Auda’s maqasid could solve the problem. First, Auda, in this terms, offers a way of reading the scripture based on the intent in applying Islamic law and how its implications when maqasid are a primary consideration in reading and applying the law. Second, the theoretical approach as a result of Auda’s academic research is the validation of several ijtihad methodologies which will practically produce the Anthropocentric Maqasid, namely the Maqasid model considering the development of world governance thinking within the framework of nation-states on the one hand, and making human values such as freedom, equality, justice, democracy as a source of maslahah on the other. The logical consequence of this Anthropocentric maqasid idea necessitates drawing legal conclusions (istinbath al-ahkam) based on maslahah, no longer on the text.