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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 approva ...

, ''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, 1993, edited and revised by

Abdal Hakim Murad Abdal Hakim Murad (born: Timothy John Winter; 15 May 1960) is an English academic, theologian and Islamic scholar who is a proponent of Islamic neo-traditionalism. His work includes publications on Islamic theology, modernity, and Anglo-Muslim ...

. The best-known example is by far Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, 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 Muslim A ...

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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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