THOUGHT OF HADITH D.S. MARGOLIOUTH

Religious Studies

Margoliouth is one of the leading orientalists, who carried out a study of the Prophet's hadith, until finally his research led him to the conclusion that the Prophetic Hadith deserves doubt. This paper is just a simple effort, will explore Margoliouth's view of the authenticity of the Prophet's hadith, and how the concept of sunnah according to him.Orientalist studies on easternity, especially Islam and civilization, cover various fields of science. One of them is focusing on the study of hadith from various perspectives. Undeniably, this orientalist study has two opposing sides, can be negative and can be positive. By conducting an assessment of the characters and their thoughts will provide benefits to researchers as well as to distinguish between cunning and dangerous Orientalists and those who tend to be honest and objective. Naughty Orientalists are certainly very detrimental to the interests of Islam, while honesty contributes a lot to Islamic studies. There are several weaknesses of Orientalists in their methodology, including: 1) drawing a conclusion based on the argument of lack of evidence. Whereas not or not yet found evidence supporting a hypothesis is not necessarily certain and does not necessarily mean that the evidence does not exist. Because, the presence or absence of evidence does not have to depend on researchers. The absence of evidence is not proof of nothingness. It could be that the evidence exists, but the researcher does not know of its existence. 2) dual attitude. On the one hand they doubt and even deny the truth of the sources originating from Muslims. While on the other hand they use the Islamic sources themselves as reference material which means they unwittingly acknowledge the truth. It can be said that the attitude of the Orientalist from the beginning to the end of his research was skeptical, starting with doubts and ending with doubts, in other words doubting the truth while justifying doubts.

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