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

The Shaykh : There are other books authored on matters related to Islamic etiquette and morals, and among the most authentic is the selection of the book "Riyad al-Salihin" by Imam al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him). There is a commentary on it by some of the later scholars called "Dali'l al-Falihin" by Ibn 'Allam. 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, comes a book with more material, but it contains many weak and fabricated hadiths, namely 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. This is easier to access than the previous books, but it requires the person to memorize the beginnings of the hadiths for reference. An example of this is the book mentioned as "al-Jami' al-Saghir min Kalam al-Sayyid al-Bashir al-Nadhir" by al-Hafiz Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti. But... this book is, unfortunately, heavily laden with weak and fabricated hadiths. The author himself had composed an appendix to this book, which he called "Dhi'l al-Jami' al-Saghir". Then, after him, Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabhani, the Lebanese, added this appendix to *al-Jami' al-Saghir* and called it "al-Fath al-Kabir, adding the appendix to al-Jami' al-Saghir". It was printed in Egypt in three volumes. The pages of this edition are full, with no white space in the modern style today; so one hadith follows another, and one hadith follows another, and yet it is in three volumes. The number of hadiths in it is more than fifteen thousand. So the material is abundant, and very abundant, even though he was concerned with tracing it, but in the style of symbols. And despite the bulk of the book, there are many, many of them. He mentions the hadith and says "D" "H" "Khn" "Khab" "Khad", and so on, from... from Abu Hurayrah, from... etc.
So, in this method of tracing the letters of the symbols, the size of the book is reduced. 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. And the original effort, which is "al-Jami' al-Saghir", is with the scholars, students of scholars, memorizers, and literati, because it has material that is very abundant, and everyone finds what they are looking for in it. I was... in the service of this book, "al-Fath al-Kabir", which includes the appendix. So I made it into two books: one copy... the first is "Sahih al-Jami' al-Saghir wa Ziyadatuhi", and the other is "Da'if al-Jami' al-Saghir wa Ziyadatuhi". The first, meaning the authentic one, is printed in six volumes in the library... 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 authored in the science of hadith and the texts of hadith. It does not pay attention to a specific science, such as rulings or etiquette, but rather it gathered from all the sciences that the science of hadith and the science of the Sunnah encompass.