CONTESTING THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE HADITH SANAD: An Analysis of Leone Caetani’s Thought

One of the most heated debate on Prophet Traditions criticism is issue concerning chain transmitter or what popularly known as sanad which consequently determine validity a hadith Muhammad. Even Muslim scholars consider to be part religion Islam. In contrast this stand, Leone Caetani, one Italian orientalists who famous for his historical works Islam, tried blatantly criticize transmitters well review them in an approach and method he himself promoted. This paper attempts explore L. Caetani’s thoughts about Prophetic by applying literature study descriptive-analytic methods. The result research that Caetani assumes not integral teaching Islam but rather adoption from Arab tradition. addition, it also implies existence only image name Muhammad narrators, narrators are people cannot followed do lot practice falsification narrations. Abstrak: Sanad hadis merupakan salah satu rangkaian terpenting dalam membuktikan sahih dan tidaknya sebuah Nabi Bahkan sarjana menganggap bagian dari agama Hal ini berbeda dengan pandangan orientalis Italia yang terkenal karya sejarah tentang Ia berusaha mengkaji ulang memberikan kritikan terhadap dianggap penting oleh umat Untuk mengupas pemikiran artikel ini, penulis menggunakan metode studi pustaka deskriptif-analitik. Hasil penelitian ialah berasumsi bahwa bukan ajaran melainkan mengadopsi tradisi orang Arab, adanya hanya pencitraan nama para perawinya, perawi orang-orang tidak bisa diteladani banyak melakukan pemalsuan periwayatannya. Keywords: orientalis, sanad,