

On Allah do I rely and depend and to Him do I entrust myself to Him be praise and grace, and with Him is success and immunity. I give them without the chains of authorities so as to make it easier to memorize them and to make them of wider benefit if Allah Almighty wills.Įvery person wishing to attain the Hereafter should know these hadith because of the important matters they contain and the directions they give in respect of all forms of obedience, this being obvious to anyone who has reflected upon it. Imam Nawawi describes the Importance of these Hadith as followsĮach hadith being one of the great precepts of religion, described by religious scholars as being "the axis of Islam " or "the half of Islam" or "the third of it ", or the like, and to make it a rule that these forty hadith be sound and that the majority of them be in the Sahihs of Al-Bukhari and Muslim.

The Collection of AN-Nawawi 40 Hadith (Prophet's Tradition)
