Riyad as-Salihin – Abridged and Annotated

Based on the Abridged Riyad as-Salihin by Shaykh Yusuf ibn Isma'il an-Nabhani This abridgement of Imam Nawawi's great work is based on the format of Shaykh Yusuf ibn Isma'il an-Nabhani's Mukhtasar Riyad as-Salihin and incorporates the commentary on its hadiths found in Nuzhat al-Muttaqin: Sharh Riyad as-Salihin, by Dr Mustafa Sa'id al-Khin, Dr Mustafa al-Bugha, Muhyi ad-Din Mistu, 'Ali ash-Shirbaji and Muhammad Amin Lutfi. The resulting synthesis is at once comprehensive, concise and self-explanatory.

It provides the reader with a commentary on Riyad as-Salihin which is not only practical and relevant to the lives of Muslims today, but which is accessible enough to serve as a regular source of reference for all Muslims, including students of the Din. In 13th Century Damascus, the renowned Hadith Scholar, juristic expert, academic luminary and pious ascetic, Imam Muhyi ad-Din Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi set himself the task of compiling a short collection of rigorously authenticated Hadith, which will comprise for its reader a way to the hereafter.

The resulting Riyad as-Salihin is a collection of almost two thousand Hadiths on numerous subjects, selected from the Sahih collections and other canonical books of the Sunnah. This blessed book, containing the treasures of the noble Sunnah and Prophetic guidance, was greeted with immediate scholarly approval and has established its worth in terms of the far-reaching and long-term influence it has had on Muslim character, conduct, education and reform throughout the Ummah and across the centuries.