Criticism of Sanad and Matan Perspective of Muhammad Syuhudi Ismail in Understanding The Hadith of Fasting Sunnah Rajab

This paper aims to examine the criticism of the sanad and the perspective of Muhammad Syuhudi Ismail in understanding the hadith of the fasting Sunnah of the month of Rajab. According to Syuhudi Ismail, the validity of a hadith can be measured from several conditions, namely ittisal al-sanad, 'adl, dabit, avoiding syaz, and no' illah. whereas, in analyzing the validity of the mind there are four benchmarks, namely not contradicting the Koran, not contradicting a stronger hadith, not contradicting common sense and history, and its structure showing prophetic words. This research is a qualitative research using library research method. The primary data in this study are pole al-sittah and pole al-sab'ah. The data collection methods are takhrij and i'tibar al-hadith. Meanwhile, the analysis uses sanad analysis and hadith observations. The results of this study are from the three hadiths that have been examined, all the narrators that are in the line of the three hadiths are predicated of siqat with the quality of the hadith sahih al-sanad. Meanwhile, the quality of the observations of the three hadiths above can be concluded that the three of them do not contradict the benchmarks used as the benchmark in criticizing the hadith observations, as explained by Muhammad Syuhudi Ismail.