Pergulatan pemikiran kontemporer mengenai hadits, baik yang dilakukan oleh para pemikir muslim (insider) maupun para orientalis (outsider) agaknya juga mengalami dinamika perkembangan yang cukup signifikan. Hal ini tampak dari banyaknya para pengkaji hadits khususnya dari kalangan muslim yang mencoba memekarkan dan mengkritisi pemikiran tentang hadits, seperti Fazlur Rahman (Fazlur Rahman, 1984…
One of controversial conclusions of the orientalists' study on the hadis is that the authenticity of the hadis is actually not as high as the Muslims believed so far, because none of the traditions of the Prophet is truly authentic from the Prophet, especially the tradition relating to fiqh. The conclusion was in turn confirmed that it is very difficult to trust the hadis literature as a whole …