Kritik atas Kritik Kamaruddin Amin terhadap Riwayat Mudallisīn dalam Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī dan Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim

This research is prompted by the thought of Kamaruddin Amin who challenges the concept of ‘Ulūm al-Ḥadīth about the transmission of mudallisīn in the Ṣahīḥ al-Bukhārī and Ṣahīḥ Muslīm. The article finds that: first, there have been inconsistencies and gaps between the theory and practice in the concept of tadlīs; second, there are negative implications of application of tadlīs according to ‘Ulūm al-Ḥadīth against the transmission of mudallisīn; third, Ṣīghat al-Taḥammul wa al-Adā’ has no significance either in the study of ḥadīth authentication in general or in the context of tadlīs in particular; fourth, Nāsir al-Dīn al-Albānī’s method of determining the authenticity of mudallas ḥadīth has a weakness and negative implications upon mudallas ḥadīths in general; fifth, the application of mudallas ḥadīth criticism according to the traditional method using al-jarḥ muqaddam ‘alā al-ta‘dīl idhā kānā mufassaran when the controversy occurs in the assessment of the predicate of a ḥadīth; and sixth, orientalist’s method of giving the calendar to the ḥadīth can be used as an alternative way to overcome the weaknesses of the method of classical ḥadīth science.