EPISTEMOLOGI FIQH KEMADZHABAN NU

The Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is quite well known as a religious community organization that maintains the tradition of fiqh with civilization. Because since its inception it has made the ASWAJA ideology the basis of theology, adhering to one of the four schools; Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hambali as guidelines in the practice of Islamic law. The tradition of this diversity often gets criticism and even blasphemy from various parties regarding its validity to live a religious life. Because NU is considered to not have a strong methodology thinking ground, especially in the field of Islamic law. This study examines the epistemology of the NU's kemadzhaban fiq both regarding the meaning of NU about fiqh bermadhab and the methodology of fiqh based on madzhab. The results of this study found that, the tradition of bermadzhab fiqh had started since the time of the Companions of the Prophet, according to NU according to NU not only taqli> d blind to the statements of the texts of the yellow book but to follow and develop the concept of thinking of the priests in establishing the law, and the system the establishment of the NU formulation law really has a strong scientific footing