METODE PENULISAN FIQH OLEHNŪR AL-DĪN AL-RĀNĪRĪDALAM KITAB AL-SIRĀT AL-MUSTAQĪM

Al-Sirāt al-Mustaqīm by Shaykh Nūr al-Din al-Rānīrī (1600-1658M) is the oldest work on fiqh in Malay language ever known in South East Asia. It is not a comprehensive work on fiqh, but it deals only matters pertaining to‘ibadat. It was once regarded as an authoritative work in fiqh in Malay Archipelagoes particularly in Acheh. This article attempts to identify al-Rānīrī’s methods that was used in his al-Sirāt al-Mustaqīm regarding the content of the book, sources of his writing and his approach to discussing related issues. This article mainly relies on library research and it is a content analysis. Most of the data are collected or referred to the al-Sirāt al-Mustaqīm. This research discovered that the write up of the al-Sirāt al-Mustaqīm has been influenced by the writing of taqlīd era, i.e. mazhab’s fanatism, lack of evidence and loaded with juristic views. Secondly, Shaykh Nūr al-Dīn al-Rānīrī was a jurist who was able to exercise his ijtihad in several juristic issues. In other words, he has only rendered works of great Shāfī’īe jurists to Malay language, and exercised his ijtihād.