Sharh Riyad al-salihin (Ibn Uthaymin)

Sharh Riyad al-salihin is Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymin's commentary on al-Nawawi's Riyad al-salihin (his biography). It follows the hadiths of al-Nawawi's collection chapter by chapter. ²

Volume five covers the book of prayer in al-Nawawi's collection, then the book of fasting, then i'tikaf and the opening of the book of pilgrimage. Each chapter opens with its heading as printed: "Book of Prayer, chapter on saying what the caller says" at scan page 39, "Book of mosques and places of prayer, chapter on the merit of the dawn and afternoon prayers" at page 55, and "Book of Friday, chapter on the obligation of the Friday bath" at page 167. ¹, ³, ⁴

The fasting section includes chapters on the merit of Ramadan, on the obligation of fasting when the new moon is seen, on the merit of suhur and on the time the fast ends. It opens at scan page 211 with a chapter on forbidding perpetual fasting for one who is harmed by it. The book of i'tikaf appears at page 315 and the book of pilgrimage at page 317. ⁵, ⁶, ⁷, ⁸

The last volume of this set covers the book of jihad in al-Nawawi's collection. It opens with the chapter "The obligation of jihad and the merit of going out early and returning" (hadith 234) at scan page 5. It then takes the chapters on the merit of freeing slaves and of kindness to the enslaved (pages 67 and 69), the merit of generosity in buying, selling and paying (page 75), the merit of knowledge (page 95), the obligation of gratitude (page 127), the book of prayer upon the Prophet ﷺ (page 134), and chapters on remembrance, gatherings of remembrance and supplication. ⁹, ¹⁰, ¹¹, ¹², ¹³

The headings and numbers in this record are as they appear on the scan. Page numbers are scan pages. The cover's copyright page says the work was first published in 1415 AH and gives 1427 AH as the first edition of this printing. ¹⁴