THEMATIC STUDIES ON HADITH: THE INFLUENCE OF QALB IN BEHAVIOR FORMATION

Abstract

The question of qalb is widely debated by Islamic Sufism, especially Imam al-Ghazali in his book Ihya Ulum al-Din. Imam al-Ghazali explained that the qalb is the king in the limbs of the human body that controls all the activities that take place in the spirit, lust and intellect so as to form akhlak. However, the question is, what is the qalb debate in the second authoritative source of Islam, which is hadith. Therefore, this paper analyzes the content of matan hadith containing qalb terms. Therefore, qualitative methods are used in this study through the document analysis approach to the books of hadith from sunan sittah which is Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Daud, Sunan Nasai and Sunan Tirmidhi. A total of 100 hadiths were collected from the book Sunan Sittah but only 65 hadiths were used to answer the objectives of this study. 35 of the matan hadith that is not used in this studies because the hadiths have the same matan with each other either the same in terms of meaning or the same in terms of the matan. The results of this study show that the qalb acts as a mover of the human body, the qalb influences human behavior by accepting external influences and the qalb as the performer. The importance of this study is to highlight the debate of hadith on the qalb in explaining its function in detail based on the Sunnah of the Prophet.