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Ibn al-Salah

ابن الصلاح

The hadith master Abu Amr ibn al-Salah; author of the dictation 'al-Ahadith al-Kulliyya', twenty-six comprehensive hadiths on which al-Nawawi built his 'Arba'un'.

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Roles
Scholar · muhaddith
Counted among
Sunni
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Scripture and its sciences

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Authored
al-Ahadith al-Kulliyya

People and things also explored

al-Arba'un al-Nawawiyya (Nawawi's Forty)al-Ahadith al-KulliyyaCommand, prohibition and capacityBid'a (religious innovation)Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)Connectedness of the isnad and proven hearingThe Qur'an as the speech of God (in the Tahawi creed)The pause of revelation (Fatra)

Sources

  • Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam — Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
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al-Arba'un al-Nawawiyya (Nawawi's Forty)

The famous collection of concise hadiths that Imam Abu Zakariyya Yahya al-Nawawi took from Ibn al-Salah's 'al-Ahadith al-Kulliyya' (twenty-six hadiths) and expanded to forty-two, naming it 'al-Arba'un'; widely memorised and much commented upon.