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Hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

, ''arbaʿīniyyāt'' is a subgenre of the

literature. As the name indicates, these are collections containing forty hadith related to one or more subjects depending on the purpose of the compiler.Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi, ''Hadith Literature'', Cambridge,

Islamic Texts Society The Islamic Texts Society (ITS) is a peer-reviewed, British publishing house which concentrates on academic and general titles on Islam. It is registered as an educational charity in the UK. History The Islamic Texts Society was founded in Cam ...

, 1993, edited and revised by Abdal Hakim Murad. The best-known example is by far

Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith Nawawi's Forty (sc. “Forty Hadith”, in Arabic: ''al-arbaʿīn al-nawawiyyah'') is a compilation of forty hadiths by Imam al-Nawawi, most of which are from Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari. This collection of hadith has been particularly value ...

, aiming to include all the fundamentals of the sacred Islamic law.

References

External links

Forty Hadith Nawawi – English and Arabic

Forty Hadith al-Nawawi in English and Arabic (''hadith qudsi'')

''40 Hadith Nawawi''
by the

Muslim American Society The Muslim American Society (MAS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. MAS describes itself as a grassroots Islamic movement. It has more than 50 chapters across the United States. History Musli ...

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''An Exposition on 40 Ahadith'' by Imam Ruhullah al-Musawi al-Khumayni (Shia)

Turath Publishing's series “Collections of Forty Hadiths”
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