Nahj al-fasaha (book): Difference between revisions

The author has brought sayings of the Prophet (s) about virtues and akhlaq and has avoided other hadiths in feqh, etc. About the topic of the book and its accuracy, the author says:  

“I compiled this collection of the Prophet’s (s) sayings through years of studying texts and spend as much of my life as possible on it and even with all my attention, there is any incorrect hadith in it, I would not be worried because I have not related something wrong to the Prophet (s) or quoted any week saying from others and also I might be allowed because this collection is not about [the rulings of] the permissible and the forbidden. It is about the good, virtues and perfection and leaders of the past have always been easy on the chain of the transmitters of such hadiths.”

Some of the sayings of this collection have also been related to [[Imam Ali (a)|Imam Ali]] (a) and in some cases, they are even similar in meaning and wordings. About such ambiguity of reference, the author says, “there are many cases, when similar sayings and reports related to Imam Ali (a) have been reported from the Prophet (s) which some think it is due to transmitters’ mistakes. However, the fact is that the spiritual similarity between Muhammad (s) and Ali (a) has made such a result.”

This book contains 3227 hadiths and has two appendices: first of which includes the Prophet’s (s) speeches and the second appendix includes metaphorical sayings.

The author has also written a lengthy introduction to the book and there has explained his goal out of writing the book, the Prophet’s (s) fluency of speech and other topics. The order of hadiths in this book is alphabetical according to the first letter of the first word of hadiths. Later translations and editions have rearranged the hadiths based on their topics.

* ''Nahj al-Fasahah'', Collection of sayings and speeches of the noble Prophet (s), compiled by Abulqasim Payandeh, revised by Abd al-Rasul  Peymani and Muhammad Amin Shari’ati, Khatam al-Anbya’, Isfahan, 2005.