Gardens of the righteous

English translation of Riyadh As-Salihin of Muhyi ad-Din Abu Zakariyya' Yahya b. Sharaf an-Nawawi (1233-78)
Translated from Arabic by Ch. Mohammad Zafrullah Khan
Riyadh as-Salihin is a concise collection of tradtions which has been printed on various occasion e.g. at Mecca and Cairo , but this is the first translation into a western language.

Ryadh as-Salihin is a selection from the Sahih and one or two other works on hadith, among them, the Muwatta of Imam Malik. The greater part of the hadith included in the Riyadh as-Salihin is a selection from Bokhari and Muslim; most of these are to be found in both. Most section of Riyadh as-Salihin set out the relevant verses from the Holy Quran at the outset of the section, as emphasizing that the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet is an illustration of the values inculcated by the Quran. It was inescapable that some of the tradition relevant to more sections than one would be repeated. In such cases repetition has been largely avoided in the translation by furnishing cross references.