The forty "Hadiths" of Imam al-Nawawi: a new translation with accompanying commentary and jurisprudence

Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyyah ("e;al-Nawawi's Forty"e;) is a compilation of forty hadiths by Imam al-Nawawi, a thirteenth-century ce scholar and one of the most eminent and revered authorities in Islamic jurisprudence.

These hadiths, or reports of the Prophet Muhammad's sayings, derive mainly from al-Bukhari and Muslim, who, in the ninth century ce, collected the hadiths that are considered the soundest and most authentic by Muslims today.

Al-Nawawi's distillation was undertaken with the objective of establishing an "e;axis of Islam"e;.

Indeed, it became one of the most influential texts in Islam down to the present day.

In this volume, Dr Mahmoud Makkouk has translated al-Nawawi's Forty anew, adding commentary and jurisprudence after each hadith.