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The Forty Hadith of Imām al-Nawawī
Forty-two hadith in the order of the received text, with the narrator and the collection Imām al-Nawawī attributes each one to. 6 are written and awaiting review; the rest are listed so you can see the whole shape of what is coming.
01
Actions are by intentions
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Lesson published
02
Islām, īmān and iḥsān
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb
Muslim
Lesson published
03
Islam is built upon five
Ibn ʿUmar
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Lesson published
04
Creation in the womb, and the decree
Ibn Masʿūd
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Lesson published
05
Whoever innovates in this affair of ours
ʿĀʾisha
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Lesson published
06
The lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear
al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Lesson published
07
Religion is sincere counsel
Tamīm al-Dārī
Muslim
Not written yet
08
Fighting until they testify to the faith
Ibn ʿUmar
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Not written yet
09
Avoid what I forbid; do what you are able
Abū Hurayra
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Not written yet
10
God is good and accepts only what is good
Abū Hurayra
Muslim
Not written yet
11
Leave what makes you doubt
al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī
al-Tirmidhī & al-Nasāʾī
Not written yet
12
Leaving what does not concern you
Abū Hurayra
al-Tirmidhī
Not written yet
13
Love for your brother what you love for yourself
Anas ibn Mālik
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Not written yet
14
The blood of a Muslim, lawful in three cases
Ibn Masʿūd
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Not written yet
15
Speak good or be silent
Abū Hurayra
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Not written yet
16
Do not become angry
Abū Hurayra
al-Bukhārī
Not written yet
17
God has prescribed excellence in all things
Shaddād ibn Aws
Muslim
Not written yet
18
Fear God wherever you are
Abū Dharr & Muʿādh ibn Jabal
al-Tirmidhī
Not written yet
19
Be mindful of God and He will protect you
Ibn ʿAbbās
al-Tirmidhī
Not written yet
20
If you feel no shame, do as you wish
Abū Masʿūd al-Badrī
al-Bukhārī
Not written yet
21
Say “I believe in God”, then be steadfast
Sufyān ibn ʿAbdillāh
Muslim
Not written yet
22
The obligatory duties, and entering the Garden
Jābir ibn ʿAbdillāh
Muslim
Not written yet
23
Purity is half of faith
Abū Mālik al-Ashʿarī
Muslim
Not written yet
24
I have forbidden oppression to Myself
Abū Dharr
Muslim
Not written yet
25
Every act of good is a charity
Abū Dharr
Muslim
Not written yet
26
Every joint owes a charity each day
Abū Hurayra
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Not written yet
27
Righteousness is good character
al-Nawwās ibn Samʿān; Wābiṣa ibn Maʿbad
Muslim; Aḥmad & al-Dārimī
Not written yet
28
The farewell counsel
al-ʿIrbāḍ ibn Sāriya
Abū Dāwūd & al-Tirmidhī
Not written yet
29
The deeds that admit to the Garden
Muʿādh ibn Jabal
al-Tirmidhī
Not written yet
30
Obligations, limits, and what He left silent
Abū Thaʿlaba al-Khushanī
al-Dāraquṭnī
Not written yet
31
Renounce the world and God will love you
Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī
Ibn Māja and others
Not written yet
32
No harming, nor reciprocating harm
Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
Ibn Māja, al-Dāraquṭnī & Mālik
Not written yet
33
The proof is on the claimant
Ibn ʿAbbās
al-Bayhaqī and others
Not written yet
34
Change what is wrong
Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
Muslim
Not written yet
35
Do not envy: the Muslim is brother to the Muslim
Abū Hurayra
Muslim
Not written yet
36
Relieving distress, and seeking knowledge
Abū Hurayra
Muslim
Not written yet
37
God has recorded the good deeds and the bad
Ibn ʿAbbās
al-Bukhārī & Muslim
Not written yet
38
Whoever shows enmity to a friend of God
Abū Hurayra
al-Bukhārī
Not written yet
39
Pardon for error, forgetfulness and coercion
Ibn ʿAbbās
Ibn Māja & al-Bayhaqī
Not written yet
40
Be in this world as a stranger
Ibn ʿUmar
al-Bukhārī
Not written yet
41
None believes until his desire follows what I brought
ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr
graded ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ
Not written yet
42
Forgiveness, however great the sins
Anas ibn Mālik
al-Tirmidhī
Not written yet
Ordering follows the received text, which agrees with the standard printed recensions. Some online lists continue past forty-two; those further hadith are Ibn Rajab al-Ḥanbalī’s additions in Jāmiʿ al-ʿUlūm wa’l-Ḥikam, not al-Nawawī’s.