The Complete Forty Hadith (PB)
Imam an-Nawawi assembled his collection of forty-two ahadith together with the absolute minimum of fiqh and commentary necessary for people not to misunderstand their import.
Ibn �Uyaynah said, �Ahadith are misleading except to those who have fiqh.� Ibn Wahb said, �Every man of hadith who has no Imam in fiqh is astray.� Of the huge number of collections of forty hadith, the one by Imam an-Nawawi is undoubtedly the most famous and most enduring. This is, to our knowledge, that work�s first full translation into English and so we have called it The Complete Forty Hadith of Imam an-Naw