Riyad as-Salihin, The Meadows of the Righteous, or The Gardens of the Righteous (Arabic: رياض الصالحين, romanized: Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn), is a compilation of verses from the Quran, supplemented by hadith narratives by Al-Nawawi of Damascus.
The hadith is part of the canonical Arabic collections of Islamic morals, manners, acts of worship.
[2][3] The text studies the Hadiths in an effort to translate the teaching from Quran verses into Sunnah, or practical tradition, in the form of Islamic jurisprudence and ethics.
[4] The Sunnah which covered by Nawawi includes the practice of Sahabah, which were viewed by Malik ibn Anas as "living Sunnah" who transmit the rulings directly from Muhammad.
[4] The book is organized into 20 sections, each representing a subject matter such as listed hereafter: The book is organized into 373 chapters of variable length and are listed below.