Peer-reviewed article
Understanding Violence Against Children In The Perspective Of The Prophet's Hadith
Fahim Yustahar, Tutuk Ningsih, Fitria Nurul Azizah ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This paper examines violence against children through the lens of Islamic hadith (prophetic teachings), focusing on school environments. The author analyzes hadith sources to understand how violence is justified in Islamic tradition as a means of conditioning children's responsibility, discipline, and politeness. The paper concludes that violence against children may be permissible depending on situational and contextual factors.
Key points
- Cases of child abuse continue to rise, particularly in school environments
- The paper analyzes hadith texts (isath and matan) to understand religious perspectives on child violence
- Three forms of violence are identified: conditioning responsibility, conditioning discipline, and conditioning politeness
- The paper suggests violence against children may be contextually permissible
Limitations
This is a textual and theological analysis rather than empirical research on child well-being outcomes. It does not provide evidence about the actual impact of violence on children's health, development, or protection.
Abstract
This paper reveals the importance of understanding the prevention of violence against children, especially in school environments. This is important because until now, cases of child abuse have continued to rise. The focus of this paper is to understand the understanding of child abuse in the perspective of the prophet's hadith. This research is more oriented towards how violence against children occurs in the school environment, revealing hadiths that talk about child abuse, and how to understand violence against the child in the Prophet's hadith. From here it is necessary to have a reference source on the issue. Based on the analysis of the isath and matan hadith in question, it can be concluded that the understanding of violence against the child in the perspective of hadith is oriented to three things, namely violence as a form to condition the child's responsibility, violence as a form to condition the child to be disciplined, and violence as a form of conditioning the child to be polite. It is from these three things that child abuse can only be done depending on the situation and the condition itself.