Al-Arbaʿin of Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn ʿAsakir: On the Memorable Qualities of the Mothers of the Believers

Collections of Forty Hadiths #5

by Abd ar-Rahman ibn Asakir, Aisha Bewley (Translator)

Beginning with biographical notes on the wives of the Prophet ﷺ, Ibn ʿAsakir takes the reader through a remarkable collection of hadith describing the virtues of the 'Mothers of the Believers', an appellation invested on the wives of the Prophet Ibn ʿAsakir by the Qurʾanic text itself.

Born in a scholarly Damascene family in the 6th century (Hijri), Ibn ʿAsakir became an accomplished jurist, hadith specialist, and a prolific author. His learning had a profound effect on him and he was noted for his asceticism, devotion, and tearfulness.

Genres: Islam

178 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Nuriddeen Knight · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book about the merits of the mothers of the believers, May Allah be pleased with them. There are some Hadith in here that I consider rare -I never heard them before, and have now have become my favorites.
One small notes he does spend a great deal of time of Aisha and secondarily Khadijah. Though all the wives are noted the ones we rarely hear about like Sawdah are not given not given much more info in this book.
I highly recommended it and look forward to getting the authors other 40 Hadith books.

[Nachida · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a bit harder to take for a modern day reader. It wasn't so much hadiths about the wives that we as other can take to emulate but just...it is hard to explain.