The Methodology of Imam Nawawi in his 40 Hadith

The Methodology of Imam Nawawi in his 40 Hadith, as explained in his introduction.The introduction Imam Nawawi places before his 40 Hadith is really important in order to understand his methodology:

• He brings the virtues of gathering, memorising and learning 40 ahadith

  
  

• He brings the history of compiling 40 ahadith and lists the scholars who did so

  
  

• He brings the principle of acting upon weak ahadith for the purpose of virtues in actions

  
  

• ‎He brings the importance of conveying from the Rasul ﷺ

  
  

• ‎He brings the different categories of 40 Hadith collections

  
  

• ‎He describes his collection and how it gathers all other categories of 40 ahadith in one compilation. The overall subject being key principles in the religion.

• He informs the reader that he will bring authentic narrations from the two Sahih collections

• He brings his reasoning for not mentioning the chains of narrations

• He informs the reader that he will explain certain difficult words

• He finally brings the goal of a student of hadith; to look towards success in the hereafter