Nawawi's Forty (sc. “Forty Hadith”, in Arabic: ''al-arbaʿīn al-nawawiyyah'') is a compilation of forty
hadiths by
Imam al-Nawawi
Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī ( ar, أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي; (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī, was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and ha ...
, most of which are from
Sahih Muslim and
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari ( ar, صحيح البخاري, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī), group=note is a ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī (810–870) around 846. Al ...
. 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
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The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and e ...
, of the foundations of Islamic sacred law or
Sharīʿah
Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the Five Pillars of Islam, religious precepts of Islam and is based on the Islamic holy books, sacred scriptures o ...
. 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, 1997, p. 22.] This work is the most representative of the
''arbaʿīniyyāt'' genre of hadith.
See also
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Forty hadith
Forty Hadith, ''arbaʿīniyyāt'' is a subgenre of the Hadith 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, ''Hadit ...
References
External links
Translation of Imam An-Nawawi's Forty HadithsForty Hadith Nawawi – English and Arabic
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