<![CDATA[The manqul, musnad, and muttasil transmission practices within the Indonesian Islamic Da’wah Institute (LDII) require understanding Islamic texts through an unbroken teacher-to-student chain (sanad). These practices are frequently stigmatized as exclusive and criticized primarily through a normative fiqh framework. Amid the government’s ongoing push for religious moderation, this study systematically reinterprets manqul utilizing the “living Hadith” framework and religious authority theory, while rigorously assessing its alignment with national moderation indicators. This qualitative descriptive-analytical study utilizes a library research design. It integrates living Hadith hermeneutics, reception theory, and Weber’s routinization of charismatic authority, analyzing official LDII documents alongside forty secondary sources. Findings indicate that manqul parallels classical isnad criteria specifically concerning chain continuity and clear sources yet extends beyond mere narrative verification to establish comprehensive religious authority. Typologically, it functions as a functional reception. Sociologically, manqul operates as a mechanism to routinize the founder’s charisma into an institutionalized, intergenerational authority, a phenomenon spatially manifested in the community’s settlement patterns. This empirical perspective logically complements rather than contradicts previous normative fiqh analyses. When evaluated against religious moderation indicators, manqul successfully accommodates local culture and non-violence, although it leaves room for tension regarding tolerance. Ultimately, this research fills a critical gap in living hadith studies concerning LDII, proposing a novel authoritative-institutional reception typology that extends the analytical framework of living Hadith in Indonesia.]]>
