This article examines the historiography of hadith from the beginning of its emergence, then it becomes a separate form in the study of Islamic history. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach with a content analysis method to find three parts of hadith historiography, namely: embryo, mapping, and development. This study concludes that the embryo of the historiographical emergence of hadith is a historical reality that was real at the time it was reported, and the historical reality of the existence of written works in the second-century hijrah. Both are sources that are interrelated and cannot be separated. At the source mapping level, hadith historiography obtains biographical information on rijal al-hadith from the books al-Si...