The "Forty Hadiths" of Imam al-Nawawi

Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyyah ("al-Nawawi's Forty") 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 est