page_title: Forty Hadith of Ruhullah Khomeini
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Forty Hadith of Ruhullah Khomeini / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Ruhollah Khomeini
context_page_description: Forty Hadith is a 1940 book written by Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It describes his personal interpretations of forty traditions attributed to Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, and The Twelve Imams.
  The book was originally a pamphlet that Khomeini used to teach to his students at the Feyziyeh School in Qom Seminary.
context_section_description: Islamic scholars, motivated by a tradition from the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, which promises Divine Rewards for scholars who collect forty traditions, compile hadith narrations in groups of forty. The best-known example of this genre is Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, which was written  include all the fundamentals of the sacred Islamic law.
  Khomeini completed his collection in 1939, and it was first published in 1940. He quotes the Arabic text of each hadith in the book with its Persian translation and discussed its various themes.
caption: Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini, author of "Forty Hadith"
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