The Malacca Empire: Sayings of Prophet Muhammad in Sulalat Al-Salatin

Abstract:

In the fifteenth century, the Malacca Empire emerged as the centre of Islamic civilization in the Malay Archipelago. The history had been recorded in Sulalat Al-Salatin, an important literary source about the genealogy of all Kings in Malacca. The objective of this study was to analyze the understanding of sayings from Prophet Muhammad among Malays in Malacca during the fifteenth century through all of the hadith quoted in Sulalat Al-Salatin. This study used content analysis methodology to validate the sayings where all of them were critically analyzed and compared with the classical hadith sources from prominent Muslim scholars. As a result, only two out of the four quotations were considered as authentic sayings of Prophet Muhammad. This study also showed the importance of the palace as the centre of the Islamic education system and the role played by Muslim preachers from outside of Malacca to propagate Islam in Malacca.

Author: 

Abdur-Rahman M. A., R. M. Mohd. Ali, and R. A. I. R. Yaacob.

Keywords: 

Hadith in Malay Annals, Malay Annals, Sejarah Melayu, Sulalat Al-Salatin.  

This paper has been presented at International Conference of Social Sciences 2012 (ICSS2012),  11th - 13th April 2012, Venice, Italy.

This paper also has been published in the conference proceedings, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Issue 64, April 2012, Venice, Italy, pp. 553-556, pISSN 2010-376X, eISSN 2010-3778.

Analisis Penggunaan Ayat-ayat Al-Quran Dalam Sulalat Al-Salatin

Abstrak.
Sulalat Al-Salatin merupakan sumber bertulis terpenting berkaitan sejarah kesultanan Melayu Melaka pada abad ke-15. Pengaruh agama Islam sangat jelas kelihatan dalam manuskrip ini terutamanya dari segi penggunaan ayat-ayat al-Quran oleh pengarangnya. Tujuan kajian ini dilakukan ialah untuk menganalisa kesemua penggunaan ayat-ayat al-Quran yang terdapat dalam manuskrip ini dan membandingkannya dengan tafsir-tafsir muktabar karangan para ulama` bagi menilai kefahaman orang-orang Melayu di Melaka pada waktu itu terhadap ayat-ayat tersebut. Oleh itu, pengaruh dan kepentingan ayat-ayat itu dalam Sulalat al-Salatin dapat difahami dan ketepatan penggunaannya dalam konteks suasana pada masa lalu dapat dinilai. Hasilnya, didapati bahawa kesemua ayat-ayat al-Quran itu telah digunakan dengan tepat melainkan satu ayat sahaja yang kurang tepat penggunaanya. Justeru, kajian ini penting untuk menilai pengaruh dan kaitan antara ayat-ayat al-Quran dengan alam Melayu serta bagaimana ayat-ayat al-Quran itu dapat membentuk pemikiran dan jati diri orang-orang Melayu.
 

Kata Kunci.
Sulalat Al-Salatin, Sejarah Melayu, Alam Melayu, Jati Diri Melayu, Malay Annals

Kertas kerja ini telah dibentangkan di International Conference on Islamic Civilization and Malay Identity 2011 (ICICMI2011), 14th - 15th November 2011, Equatorial Hotel Melaka, Malaysia.

The Malay World: An Analysis of Quranic Verses in Sulalat al-Salatin

Title: 

The Malay World: An Analysis of Quranic Verses in Sulalat al-Salatin 

Authors: 

Abdur-Rahman M.A., Muhammad Ridhuan Tony Lim Abdullah and Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob

Department of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia.

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