The Position of Scholars and Jurists Towards Craftsmen and Professionals in Prophetic Tradition

Abstract

In Islam, professions, occupations, and crafts have been highly appreciated and recognized, and this was mainly supported by the fact that work and living-making were considered a worship-like practice. Worship in Islam is not only a physical or spiritual ritual, but also a moral strife for knowledge. This means a Muslim individual should seek support and should not be confined to spiritual or scholarly experience. In this respect, prophetic tradition, or the sayings, accounts, and versions narrated or related by the Prophet Muhammed on various occasions, had also drawn on the importance and necessity of work and why one should make living. Many prophetic traditions, therefore, have been found to have praised occupations, craftsmen, and professionals. Profession, additionally, has not only been concerned with finding a job or making living, but it has also been concerned with refining one’s work and delivering it in as best form as possible. Muslim scholars and jurists, in the same vein, have contributed to this by proposing ideas and tips on how to better work, why one should make living, and why this matters.