Literasi Hadis Digital di Kalangan Santri Milenial: Peluang dan Ancaman Misinformasi

Abstract

This article examines the phenomenon of digital hadith literacy among millennial santri, a generation of students growing up alongside smartphones, social media, and digital religious applications. The presence of information technology opens significant opportunities for expanding access to hadith texts, yet simultaneously gives rise to serious threats in the form of fabricated hadith, decontextualized excerpts, and the viral spread of religious content without adequate methodological verification. This study employs a descriptive qualitative approach through a review of literature, patterns of religious media consumption, and hadith learning practices within pesantren that are adapting to digital culture. The findings indicate that millennial santri occupy an ambivalent position in digital hadith literacy, possessing far greater access to religious information than previous generations while remaining vulnerable to inauthentic hadith content due to insufficient mastery of sanad and matn criticism methodology needed to filter digital information. This article underscores the importance of pesantren in equipping santri with critical literacy skills that combine classical hadith science with digital information navigation competence, so that ease of access does not turn into a source of religious misunderstanding