Nawawi's Forty (sc. “Forty Hadith”, in Arabic: ''al-arbaʿīn al-nawawiyyah'') is a compilation of forty
hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...
s by
Imam al-Nawawi, most of which are from
Sahih Muslim
() is the second hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj () in the format, the work is valued by Sunnis, alongside , as the most important source for Islamic religion after the Q ...
and
Sahih al-Bukhari
() is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar al-Bukhari () in the format, the work is valued by Sunni Muslims, alongside , as the most authentic after the Qur'an.
Al-Bukhari organized the bo ...
. This collection of hadith has been particularly valued over the centuries because it is a distillation, by one of the most eminent and revered authorities in
Islamic jurisprudence
''Fiqh'' (; ) is the term for Islamic jurisprudence.[Fiqh](_blank)
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, of the foundations of Islamic sacred law or
Sharīʿah. In putting together this collection, it was the author’s explicit aim that “each hadith is a great fundament (''qāʿida ʿaẓīma'') of the religion, described by the religious scholars as being ‘the axis of Islam’ or ‘the half of Islam’ or ‘the third of it’ or the like, and to make it a rule that these forty hadith be classified as sound (''ṣaḥīḥ'').”
[''An-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith'', 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 ...
, 1997, p. 22. This work is the most representative of the
''arbaʿīniyyāt'' genre of hadith.
See also
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Forty hadith
References
External links
Translation of Imam An-Nawawi's Forty HadithsForty Hadith Nawawi – English and Arabic
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Sunni hadith collections
Islamic jurisprudence
Islamic theology books
Religious legal systems
Sharia