Forty
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
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 ...
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.
''An Exposition on 40 Ahadith'' by Imam Ruhullah al-Musawi al-Khumayni (Shia)
Turath Publishing's series “Collections of Forty Hadiths”
Islamic literature
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