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The research aimed to design a proposed strategy based on differentiated Education in teaching Hadith and to investigate its effects on the achievement and the improvement of life skills of the third grade intermediate students. To achieve this goal, both descriptive and experimental approaches were used. The researchers prepared a list of life skills based on the needs of the third grade intermediate students. Also, they prepared an achievement test, and a life skills scale to be applied with pre and post application. The researchers, also, depended on a scale to discover the favorite styles of learning for students. The sample consisted of (60 students) of the third grade intermediate students in Sabia educational directorate, in two different schools, as a deliberated sample. The sample was divided into equivalent two groups, one of them was experimental group consisted studied the unit " Responsibility in Islam, Manners and Behaviors that Islam urges to be done " by using the proposed strategy based on differentiated education, and the other one was control group studied the same unit in the usual way, during the first semester of the academic year 1439/1440 AH. The results of the research revealed that there was a statistically significant differences at the level of (0.05) between the average grades of the third grade intermediate students in the pre-post application of both, the achievement test, and life skills scale for the post application. These results revealed that there was a positive effect of teaching Hadeeth by using the proposed strategy based on differentiated education and its effects on the achievement and the improvement of life skills of the third grade intermediate students. In the light of these results, the researchers made some recommendations and suggestions. (Published abstract)