TY - JFULL AU - Abdur-Rahman M. A. and R. M. Mohd. Ali and R. A. I. R. Yaacob. PY - 2012/5/ TI - The Malacca Empire: Sayings of Prophet Muhammad in Sulalat Al-Salatin T2 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences SP - 526 EP - 530 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10697 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 64, 2012 N2 - In the fifteenth century, the Malacca Empire emerged as the centre of Islamic civilization in the Malay Archipelago. The history had been recorded in Sulalat Al-Salatin, an important literary source about the genealogy of all Kings in Malacca. The objective of this study was to analyze the understanding of sayings from Prophet Muhammad among Malays in Malacca during the fifteenth century through all of the hadith quoted in Sulalat Al-Salatin. This study used content analysis methodology to validate the sayings where all of them were critically analyzed and compared with the classical hadith sources from prominent Muslim scholars. As a result, only two out of the four quotations were considered as authentic sayings of Prophet Muhammad. This study also showed the importance of the palace as the centre of the Islamic education system and the role played by Muslim preachers from outside of Malacca to propagate Islam in Malacca. ER -