SUMMARY
The understanding of ?adith as a part of the problem that develops in society becomes the most important part of ?adith study. Its existence becomes an interesting study and produces a variety of certain thoughts studied in various scientific works. One of the thoughts on the understanding of the ?adith is examined by Suryadi in his dissertation that has been published under the title of contemporary methods of understanding the ?adith Prophet’s perspective Mu?ammad al-Ghazali and Yusuf al-Qar?awi. This article discusses Suryadi’s reading about Muhammad al-Gazali’s and Yusuf Qardawi’s thoughts on ?adith. Using a descriptive-analytic method this study scrutinizes how both discuss ?adith in modern context. Based on the collected and analized data, this study finds that both scholars introduce new method of understanding a ?adith considering the important of modern context. It also finds that both relate their discussion to the maqasid of Islam, that is ra?matan li-al-’alamin.