PENDEKATAN SEJARAH KAJIAN HADITS-HADITS TARAWIH

Abstract

The number of rakaat of shalat tarawih performed by Muslims in Indonesia tends to be a controversion leading to conflicts among them. A group of Muslims prefer to do this prayer separately from the other group that perform this prayer in different number of rakaat. In some cases, there are more serious conflich in which a group of Muslims forbid other group to perform this prayer in their mosque because of their different number of rakaat. In such a case, claim of truth is more dominant than the spirit of Islamic teaching, in this case shalat tarawih, as a means of consolidating the various types of Islamic preaching. This article describes some hadits related to shalat tarawih with historical perspective in order to see it in harmony with the society and its culture. This approach is aimed at understand hadits comprehensively.