Abstrak
Sab'atu ahruf is a study that appears in the Ulumul Qur'an discipline. The emergence of various interpretations of sab'atu ahruf is caused by a detailed explanation of the meaning and forms of the seven letters that were not discovered in hadiths which inform the Qur'an was revelated seven letters. Existing interpretation tends to understand hadith textually so produces the meaning that the Qur'an was revealed in various forms. This textual understanding makes the hadith seem contradictory to the Qur’an reality, because of not finding the form and meaning of the seven letters informed by the hadith. On the other hand, the hadith emerged as a response to the situation and condition of society and has not been understood by considering the context of the hadith. The context that occurs is not only related to the community when the hadith appears but also relates to other hadiths within the scope of the nuzul al-Qur'an. So the intertextual of the hadith sab'atu ahruf aims to explore the relationship between the hadith and the underlying situation and conditions so that the meaning of the hadith can be understood comprehensively. Based on the intertextuality of the hadith sab'atu ahruf with the Qur’anic history and the Arabian culture, understood that sab'atu ahruf is not the Qur’an variously, but it is a method of reading the Qur’an that is different from the point of view of makhraj and shifatul huruf with reading the revelation version. Based on its intertextuality with other hadiths within the scope of nuzul al-Qur'an, it is found that sab'atu ahruf is a way of reading the al-Qur'an which is tolerated and applies only to certain groups who have difficulty in pronouncing the Qur'an letters correctly.