This book provides a translation by Sir Muhammad Zafarulla Khan of the Riyad as-Salihin, lierally "Gardens of the Rightous", written by the Syrian Shafi'i scholar Muhyi ad-din Abu Zakariyya' Yahya b. Sharaf an-Nawawi (1233-78), who was the author of a large number of legal and biographical work, including celebrated collection of forty well-known hadiths, the Kitab al- Arba'in (actually containing some forty three traditions.), much commented upon in the Muslim countries and translated into several European language...