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.^[1] The best-known example is by far Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, aiming to include all the fundamentals of the sacred Islamic law.

References

1. Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi, Hadith Literature, Cambridge, Islamic Texts Society, 1993, edited and revised by Abdal Hakim Murad.

External links

• Forty Hadith Nawawi – English and Arabic
• Translation of Imam An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths
• A collection of forty “divine sayings” (hadith qudsi)
• An Exposition on 40 Ahadith by Imam Ruhullah al-Musawi al-Khumayni
• Turath Publishing's series “Collections of Forty Hadiths”