Book online | Nawawi: Riyad al-Salihin
Riyad as-Salihin (The Meadows of the Righteous)
By Imam Abu Zakaria Yahya Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (631–676H.)
English Translation by Aisha Bewley
7. Certainty and Trust in Allah
10. Hastening to perform good actions
12. On the encouragement to increase good actions
16. The command to follow the Sunna
17. The Obligation to obey the judgement of Allah
18. Chapter: The prohibition against innovations
19. The one who makes a good or bad sunna
20. On showing the way to good
21.Helping one another to goodness and fear of Allah
23. Commanding the right and forbidding the wrong
25. The command to deliver trusts
27. Respecting the sacred things of the Muslims
28. Veiling the faults of Muslims
29. Taking care of the needs of the Muslims
31. Putting things right between people
32. The excellence of the weak
33. Kindness to orphans and girls
35. The rights of a husband from his wife
37. Spending out of what one loves
38. On the obligation to command one’s family and children to obey Allah
39. The right of the neighbour
41. The prohibition of disobeying parents
43. Honouring the people of the family of the Messenger of Allah
44. Respect for people of knowledge, the great and people of importance
45.Visiting the people of virtue, sitting with them and keeping their company
46. The excellence of love for the sake of Allah
47. On the signs of Allah’s love for His slave
48. Cautioning against causing injury to the righteous, the weak and the poor
49. Judging people according to the outward while leaving their secrets to Allah
53. On combining Fear and Hope
55. On the Excellence of making do with little of this world
56. On the excellence of hunger
57. On Contentment, self-restraint, and moderation in life style and spending
58. On the permission to take that which is not asked for
59. The encouragement to eat from the work of one’s own hand
61. Forbidding miserliness and avarice
63. On the desire for in matters which pertain to the Next World
64. On the excellence of the grateful wealthy person
66. On the recommendation for men to visit the graves
67. On it being disliked to wish for death
69. On the recommendation to withdraw when things are corrupt
70. On the excellence of having dealings with people
72. On the Prohibition of pride and arrogance
74. On forbearance, patience and kindness
77. On anger when the sacred things of the Shari’a are violated
78. On commanding those in authority to be kind to their subjects
80. On the obligation to obey those in authority
81. On the prohibition against seeking authority
82. On encouraging the Sultan, qadi and others in authority to adopt a righteous counsellor
83. Not appointing those who desire authority
Book on the Adab related to Food (100-116)
Book of the Adab of Sleep (127-128)
129. On the Adab of the Assembly
Book of the Greeting (131-143)
Book on Visiting the Sick (144-149)
Chapters on Dying and the Funeral (150-165)
Book of the Adab of Travelling (166-179)
Recitation of the Qur’an (180-184)
Book of Praise of Allah and Thankfulness to Him
Book on the Prayer on the Messenger of Allah
