HADITH-HADITH MENGENAI SIHIR DAN RAWATANNYA DALAM AL-KUTUB AL-SITTAH

There are numbers of Prophetic texts or Hadith regarding the topic of sorcery and its treatment. Based on textual analysis, there are 36 texts of hadith in al- Kutub al-Sittah (The Six Books of Hadith), pertaining the topic of sorcery and it treatments. There are 24 texts of Hadith focusing on the concept of sorcery, its types and the explanation of witchcraft cases on the time of the Prophet and regarding the sorcerer. In addition, there are 12 texts of Hadith explain the Prophetic methods in dealing with the treatment of curing the sorcery and its preventive approaches. The study reveals that the topic of sorcery and its treatment derives from 48 texts of Hadith in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, 29 texts of Hadith in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 20 texts of Hadith in Sunan Abī Dāwūd, 17 texts of Hadith in Jāmi‘ al- Tirmīdhī, 9 texts of Hadith in Sunan al-Nasā’ī and 12 texts of Hadith in Sunan Ibn Mājah. In terms of quality of Prophetic texts of sorcery and its treatment, it is found that out of 36 texts of Hadith, there are 31 texts of Hadith Ṣaḥīḥ, 2 texts of Ḥadith Hasan and 3 texts of Hadith Ḍa‘īf.