ONE HADITH A DAY
Arba'in an-Nawawi (40 Hadith)
The foundational collection gathered by Imam an-Nawawi — the main pillars of Islamic teaching, with explanations and verified reference numbers.
33 hadith
- Verily, the reward of deeds depends on intentions, and each person will be rewarded according to what he intended
- Islam is built on five
- The creation of each one of you is brought together in his mother's womb for forty days
- Whoever introduces something into this matter of ours that is not part of it will have it rejected
- Verily, the lawful is clear, and the unlawful is clear
- Religion is sincerity
- I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establish prayer, and pay Zakah
- Avoid what I have forbidden you from, and do as much as you can of what I have ordered you
- O people, indeed, Allah is good and does not accept except what is good. Indeed, Allah has commanded the believers with what he commanded the messengers
- Leave what you doubt for what you do not doubt
- Part of a person's excellence in Islam is his leaving what does not concern him
- None of you believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself
- Indeed, Allah has enjoined Ihsān (kindness/excellence) in all things
- Fear Allah wherever you are; follow a bad deed with a good deed and it will erase it; and treat people with good morals
- Hey boy, I shall teach you some words: Be mindful of Allah, and Allah will protect you. Be mindful of Allah, and you will find Him at your side. If you ask, ask Allah; if you seek help, seek help from Allah
- Verily, some of what reached people from the speech of the early prophets: If you feel no shame, then do whatever you wish
- tell me something about Islam regarding which I can ask none but you. He (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Say: I believe in Allah, then remain steadfast
- If I were to pray the obligatory prayers, fast Ramadan, adopt the lawful, as lawful and adopt the unlawful as unlawful
- Purity is half of faith, al-hamdulillāh (praise be to Allah) fills the Scale, and subhānallāh wa al-hamdulillāh (glory and praise be to Allah) fills what is between the heavens and the earth
- There is a charity to be given for each joint of the human body
- Righteousness is good character, and sin is what wavers in your heart, and you dislike that people know about it
- I advise you to fear Allah, and to listen and obey even if a slave is appointed as your leader. Whosoever among you shall live after me will see much discord. So hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs
- You have asked about something grave, but it is easy for whomever Allah makes it easy for
- Indeed, Allah Almighty has enjoined obligations, so do not violate them; He has set limits, so do not transgress them; He has forbidden things, so do not commit them; and He has kept silent about things out of mercy for you, not out of forgetfulness, so do not search for them
- Be indifferent to worldly life; Allah will love you, and be indifferent to what people have; people will love you
- There should be no harm or reciprocal harm
- Were people to be given everything they claimed, some men would claim the properties and blood of (other) people. However, the onus of proof is on the plaintiff and the oath is upon the one who denies the claim (defendant)
- Allah has written the good deeds and bad deeds, then clarified that
- Allah Almighty says: I will declare war against one who shows hostility to a close ally of Mine. And the most beloved thing with which My slave comes nearer to Me is what I have enjoined upon him
- Allah has pardoned for me the mistakes and forgetfulness of my Ummah, and what they were coerced into doing
- Be in this world as if you are a stranger or a wayfarer
- None of you (truly) believes until his personal desire complies with what I have come with
- O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I shall forgive you
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