Mention of the books written on etiquette and morals, and a discussion of the book "Riyad al-Salihin" by al-Nawawi

The Shaykh : There are other books written on matters related to Islamic etiquette and morals, and the most authentic in its selection is the book "Riyad al-Salihin" by Imam al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him), and there is a commentary on it by some of the later scholars called "al-Falahin"...

Another questioner : "Dala'il al-Falahin".

The Shaykh : "Dala'il al-Falahin" by Ibn 'Allan; it is beneficial from the perspective of commentary, but from the perspective of jurisprudence, it is not there. Then, following this book on the same subject but with more material, comes a book that contains many weak and fabricated hadiths; that is the book "al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib" by al-Hafiz 'Abd al-'Azim al-Mundhiri. There are also books arranged according to the letters of the alphabet in the order of dictionaries, and this is easier to access in one way than the previous books, but it requires a person to memorize the beginnings of the hadiths for reference. An example of this is the famous book "al-Jami' al-Saghir min Kalam al-Sayyid al-Bashir al-Nadhir" by al-Hafiz "Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti". However, this book is also, unfortunately, filled with weak and fabricated hadiths. The author himself wrote an appendix to this book called "Dhayl al-Jami' al-Saghir". Then, after him, Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabhani, the Lebanese, came and added this appendix to al-Jami' al-Saghir and named it: "al-Fath al-Kabir bi-Dhamm al-Ziyadah ila al-Jami' al-Saghir". It was printed in Egypt in three volumes, and the pages of this edition are full with no white space in the modern style today; one hadith follows another, and one hadith follows another, and yet it is in three volumes. The number of hadiths in it exceeds fifteen thousand, so the material is abundant and very abundant, even though he paid attention to tracing them, but in the style of symbols. And despite the bulk of the book, there are many and many of them. He mentions a hadith and says: "D", "H", "Khn", "Khab", "Khad", and so on, from so-and-so, from Abu Hurayrah, from... and so on.
In this method of tracing the letters of the symbols, the size of the book is reduced, but as for its hadith material, there is hardly any book on the face of the earth that matches it in the abundance of material. Fifteen thousand hadiths... the original, which is "al-Jami' al-Saghir," is [valued] by scholars, students of scholars, memorizers, and literati because it contains, I mean, very abundant material. Everyone finds what they are looking for in it. I... served this book, "al-Fath al-Kabir," with its appendix, so I made it into two books as advice to the Ummah: the first is "Sahih al-Jami' al-Saghir wa Ziyadatuhi," and the other is "Da'if al-Jami' al-Saghir wa Ziyadatuhi." The first, that is, the authentic one, is printed in six volumes by al-Maktab al-Islami, and it contains more than seven thousand authentic hadiths. The other was printed in four volumes, and the fifth and sixth volumes remained, which is "Da'if al-Jami' al-Saghir." This type is also among what was written in the science of hadith and the texts of hadith, and it does not pay attention to a specific science like rulings or etiquette, but rather it gathered from all the sciences contained in the science of hadith and the science of the Sunnah.