The digital era has influenced the understanding of information or messages obtained from various social media, including hadith. This requires Muslims to be careful in understanding the criteria for hadith validity. This paper aims to describe the validity of hadith in the digital era, addressing several important questions: is there a difference in the study of hadith before and after the advent of digital tools?, is the study of hadith still important in the digital era?, and how can issues related to hadith validity be analyzed in the digital era?. The method used in this research is library research with descriptive analysis. Data sources were obtained from books, articles, websites, and other reliable documents relevant to the research object. The results of this study are: the validity of a hadith in the digital era can be determined by referring to the criteria for authentic hadith. The criteria for a valid hadith in terms of its sanad (chain of transmission), its just and reliable narrator, and its dhabit (reliability). Meanwhile, in terms of its maturation, it is the absence of syadh and 'illat (inheritance).
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