Body Shaming di Kalangan Periwayat Hadis

(Kajian Sosio-Antropologi Abad I – III Hijriyah)

Abstract

This article discusses the phenomenon of the use of laqab or physical nicknames among hadith narrators, which in the perspective of modern ethics can be categorized as a form of body shaming. Although in the classical context laqab is often descriptive and functional, many of them refer to physical deficiencies, such as laqab al-A'raj (lame), al-A'war (crippled), and al-A'masy (blind). This research aims to examine the social, cultural, and scientific dynamics behind the practice of giving laqab in the I–III Hijri centuries. The approach used is qualitative with socio-anthropological reviews as well as analysis of classical and contemporary literature. The results of the study show that although outwardly the laqab seems degrading, in the Arabic scientific culture and the tradition of hadith science, the giving of laqab is identifiative, not intended to harass, and even used by great scholars objectively in the process of jarh wa ta'dil.