The author
Imam al-Nawawi, whose Riyad al-Salihin and commentary on Sahih Muslim are read wherever Sunni Islam is taught.
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الأربعون النووية
Al-Arba'un an-Nawawiyya (The Forty Hadith)
Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi · d. 676 AH · Shafi'i · Hadith
1 short volume · 42 hadith
Introduction
How it came about
Building on earlier collections of forty hadith, he selected reports that each carry a major principle of the religion.
Method and structure
Forty-two short narrations, nearly all from Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, given with their sources and no commentary.
Standing in the school
The most widely memorised hadith collection in the Muslim world and the entry point to the science of hadith for most students.
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