"I bear witness that there is no god but Allah" is the ikhlas - ensuring that we do things for the sake of Allah and Allah alone.The other condition is that the actions must be done in accordance with the Shariah as it will be explained in the fifth hadith. Ikhlas is one of the conditions of accepting good deeds. Various principles are contained in …show more content… This hadith emphasises ikhlas (sincerity - to be truthful and honest to Allah alone, performing an act solely for Allah 's sake whereby no other witness except Allah is sought). Since having good knowledge of the various fundamental aspects of the religion is key to a Muslim 's practice and application of Islam, this web site attempts to provide simple and practical commentaries to the collection of Imam Nawawi 's Forty Hadith. Its significance lay in the fact that these selected forty hadiths comprise the main essential and fundamental concepts of Islam which, in turn, construct the minimum level of required revealed knowledge for every single Muslim. Ibn Daqiq al-'Id didn't comment on the fact that the collection includes 42 instead of 40 ahadith, as if this was something unimportant, which seems to emphasize the statement from above, that it was "business as usual" or "usual practice" to speak about 40 ahadith while they wgere 42.The collection of Forty Hadith by al-Imam al-Nawawi (or Imam Nawawi) has been known, accepted and appreciated by Muslim scholars for the last seven centuries. And this applies for those whom apply any (one) of these ahadith in their lifes. In his commentary on the 40 ahadith ibn Daqiq al-'Id commented the weak hadith about forty ahadith in imam an-Nawawi's introduction, explaining that 40 is the first number which has a "full number" (natural number) as the result of the fraction (for Zakat on capital assets) of the quarter of the tenth (1/40) and from the hadith -he didn't mention which exactly- one can conclude that the quarter of the tenth cleans the rest of the wealth. So we may conclude that "the forty" is based on the understanding of Arabs of what the amount "forty" may refer two in the colloquial language or the use of language. The forty of hadith of an-Nawawi cover different topics, and we ask Allah for help and guidance to comment on them. In difference to most other books for example if we take 'omdat al-Ahkam which indeed is a good selection, but it only covers one single topic: fiqh. These forty should be memorized by any student of knowledge because they are chosen out of many ahadith out of many different topics. "The forty hadith of an-Nawawi and strictly speaking they are not forty, but forty two, but the Arabs used to round fractions in numbers, so they say: forty even if it was more by one or two or less by one or two.
Sheikh ibn 'Otaymeen said explaining this issue: This might seem a silly question, but it's really been driving me nuts for a while. Which leaves me scratching my head over the question, why does his famous Forty Hadith have two too many ahadith? Presumably, in addition to being one of the most celebrated scholars in Shafi'i jurisprudence, Imam An-nawawi was at least basically competent in counting. Having never read the original Arabic compilation, I can't be certain that this isn't yet a translation quirk, but two separate translations with the same clearly-defined numbering scheme casts doubt on that theory. I had originally thought this may just be a quirk of translation (my copy is translated by Ezzeddin Ibrahim and Denys Johnson-Davies), but I have seen the same 42-hadith breakdown used in 's collection not sure which translator they used, but the translation is clearly different from my own copy. However, one thing about this compilation has always bothered me despite being entitled "Forty Hadith", my copy obviously contains 42 ahadith. " An-Nawawi's Forty Hadith" has always been my favorite book of ahadith it was the first one I ever bought and remains highly recommended reading for anyone interested in the fundamentals of Islam.