Educating Hadith Values to Counter Cyber Body Shaming Among Adolescents

Abstract

The proliferation of cyber body shaming on social media has triggered a digital morality crisis and acute psychological distress among adolescents. This study aims to formulate a preventive educational strategy based on thematic hadith values to counter online physical bullying. Utilizing a qualitative approach with an embedded case study design, this research analyzes hadith texts from Kutub al Sittah and digital screenshots of pejorative comments on Instagram and TikTok using the data analysis model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña. The findings reveal that physical based cyber microaggressions are categorized as moral transgressions (fusuq) and violations of verbal restraint (hifz al lisan). The contextualization of these hadiths reconstructs adolescents' internal regulatory systems by shifting human evaluation parameters from external attributes (outer beauty) toward internal quality (inner beauty). Practically, this study provides a pedagogical blueprint for curriculum developers and educators to design prophetic based digital literacy modules that transform youth moral development.