Nisfu Sya’ban dalam Tradisi Masyarakat Banjar (Studi Living Hadis Perspektif Sosiologi Pengetahuan Peter L. Berger)

Abstract

The tradition in Nisfu Sya’ban is one of the phenomena of ‚Living Hadis‛ that can be found in South Kalimantan. This tradition is referred through the Hadith of Prophet Muhammad, although not all of them know the text of the Hadith, its caused by the extent of religious knowledge got from the tradition that has exist before. They just follow that tradition without asking about the foundation during that tradition didn’t contrary to Syari’a. The activity in this day is praying maghrib and isya together in mosque, hajat praying, and tasbih praying, and reading the Sura of Yasin three times, and every time is started by wish that headed by the Imam. So that, all of mosques in South Kalimantan are filled by Muslims. Because almost of them did this tradition every years. The other activity is fasting that called nisfu fasting by Banjar’s Muslims.