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Primordialism is something that cannot be separated from every human being because every human being has an identity that is represented in their lives, whether from ethnicity, race, or even religion. In leadership issues, primordialism seems to be a discourse that is always herded to attract the attention of the political masses. This discourse is then more commonly known as identity politics. This research will try to explore the study of Hadith, which textually leads to the practice of identity politics. Therefore, researchers parsed the Hadith related to the leadership of Quraysh, which seems to lead to the practice of identity politics, with thematic methods so that it will reveal the maqashid of the Hadith comprehensively. This research uses a qualitative method with a hadith science approach and a historical approach, where data related to this research in the form of traditions contained in the sourcebook and supporting data from various documented writings will be analyzed using content analysis techniques. The results of this study show that identity politics has occurred in the practice of selecting leaders in the context of Islamic history, where, in practice, those who could become leaders had to be from the Quraysh tribe, and this understanding lasted for several centuries. Although the Prophet in his Hadith revealed that 'the leader is from the Quraish tribe,' it does not mean that other than the Quraish tribe is not ideal to be a leader because the Prophet expressed the Hadith in conditions where the Quraish people were indeed the tribe that at that time became the ideal tribe to be a leader because the leadership criteria are found in the identity of the Quraish people even the Prophet himself was a Quraish tribe. It is difficult to find anything besides the Quraish tribe, let alone match the Prophet himself.