Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyya: The Forty Hadiths of Imam Al-Nawawi
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Khalid Williams
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Few books earn the trust of centuries, but Imam al-Nawawi's forty-two hadith have become the first collection students of knowledge turn to, and often the one they return to for a lifetime. Compiled by the thirteenth-century Shafi'i scholar Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi, who died in 676 AH, this small work carries an outsized weight — most of its hadiths drawn from Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari, chosen for how completely they capture the essence of the religion.
What you'll find inside moves from the foundational to the far-reaching: intention and sincerity, the levels of Islam, Iman, and Ihsan, the pillars of the faith, the stages of human creation, warnings against blameworthy innovation and doubtful matters, the primacy of sincere counsel, the sanctity of a Muslim's blood and property, the lawful and the unlawful, good character, brotherhood, and reliance upon Allah. Read together, the hadiths form a holistic framework — as accessible to a beginner as it is rewarding for an advanced student, which is precisely how Imam al-Nawawi intended it.
This Ihya Publishing edition, translated by Khalid Williams and edited by Muhammad Isa Waley, runs 126 pages in paperback — a compact volume meant to be read closely and kept near at hand, the way generations of students before us have kept it.
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About the author
al-Nawawi: Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (631-676 AH / 1233-1277 CE) was born in the village of Nawa, south of Damascus, from which he takes his name. As a young man he moved to Damascus, then a great center of learning, where he immersed himself in the religious sciences with extraordinary discipline, reportedly attending many study circles each day. Shafiʿi in law, he became one of the school's foremost authorities, and is honored with the title Muhyi al-Din, "reviver of the religion." He was renowned for his piety, simplicity, and detachment from worldly comfort, declining wealth and position to remain devoted to learning and teaching. Though his life was short, his scholarship was vast and remarkably enduring. Among his landmark works are Riyad al-Salihin, a thematically arranged collection of nearly two thousand hadith on ethics, worship, and noble character that remains among the most widely read books in the Muslim world; al-Arbaʿun (the Forty Hadith), a concise gathering of foundational traditions studied by beginners and scholars alike; Kitab al-Adhkar, on supplication and remembrance of God; the influential Shafiʿi legal manual Minhaj al-Talibin; and al-Minhaj, his detailed commentary on Sahih Muslim. His writings continue to anchor traditional Islamic study to this day.
About the editor
Muhammad Isa Waley: Muhammad Isa Waley is a British scholar of Islamic manuscripts and Sufi literature, best known for a long curatorial career at one of the world's great repositories of Islamic texts. For some forty-five years he served as Curator for Persian and Turkish, beginning at the British Museum and continuing at the British Library in London. He earned his doctorate on the poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi, and his scholarly interests center on two areas: the classical verse and prose literature of Islamic spirituality in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish, and the paleography, codicology, illumination, and cataloging of manuscripts in Arabic script. His published work reflects both strands. As editor he oversaw the English Tafsir al-Jalalayn and Imam al-Nawawi's Kitab al-Adhkar (The Book of Remembrances), and he contributed to Islamic Codicology: An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script. As translator he rendered Jami's forty-hadith collection Chihil Kalima and the Mawlid of Imam al-Barzanji into English. He has also lectured widely on the study and importance of Islamic manuscripts for research into Islamic literature and culture. His more recent A Treasury of Rumi gathers selections from the poet who has occupied him since his earliest research, bringing a lifetime of textual scholarship to a wider readership.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781939256096
Publisher
Ihya Publishing
Author
al-Nawawi
Pages
126
Translator
Khalid Williams
Editor
Muhammad Isa Waley
Year Published
2022
Size
W-5.5 in | H-8.5 in | D-0.25 in
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