Forty Hadiths on Good Moral Values

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Publisher International Islamic Publishing House (IIPH)International Islamic Publishing House (IIPH)International Islamic Publishing House is a small company, but with a well-established reputation in the Muslim world. It was founded in the 1980s by Muhammad ibn Abdul Muhsin Al-Tuwaijri, its CEO and Managing Director....View publisher →
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Pages336
ISBN9786035010641

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The statements and actions of our Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace be upon him) contain much that we need: rules and advice, reminders, examples, warnings and encouragement. The collection of hadiths in Forty Hadiths on Good Moral Values by Yahya Ondigo contains some of the Prophet’s statements on positive ethics and attributes that all people—Muslims and non-Muslims—should strive to adopt in the way we deal with others; we need to work to incorporate these morals and principles into our daily habits.

The author has commented on each hadith, presenting the issue in a way designed to help readers implement what they have learned. He writes:

Demonstrating earnest leniency, tolerance and benevolence is the best way for the beauty of Islam to be seen in our own lives with our non-Muslim family members, neighbours, colleagues, workmates, schoolmates and all our fellow human beings that we interact with. Benevolence in whatever actions we undertake is the best form of da‘wah that we can give to another person. This is because our actions speak louder than our words: no matter how much we try to convince people that Muslims are generous, peaceful, tolerant, kind, amicable, charitable, and so on, words alone are not convincing enough. If our moral values and compassion are not reflected in our actions, the words become meaningless.

About the author

Yahya M.A. Ondigo

Captain (Retd.) Yahya M.A. Ondigo is a Kenyan Muslim author, da'i, and convert to Islam from Christianity, whose accessible English-language works on hadith and comparative religion are published primarily through the International Islamic Publishing House (IIPH) in Riyadh. Born into a strict Christian household in Kenya, he served in the Kenyan military, where his first extended exposure to Muslim life began. Following his elder brother's conversion to Islam and his own search for answers to questions left unaddressed in his Christian upbringing — particularly regarding the position of Jesus (peace be upon him) — he embraced Islam and devoted himself to Islamic study and da'wah.

His autobiographical My Journey from Christianity to Islam (IIPH, 2011) narrates his faith journey alongside theological reflection on the differences between Christian and Islamic conceptions of prophethood, scripture, and salvation. Two of his most widely used works follow the Imam al-Nawawi tradition of forty-hadith collections: Forty Hadiths on Good Moral Values with Short Commentaries — covering virtues such as honesty, modesty, humility, charity, and good neighborliness — and its companion Forty Hadiths on Poisonous Social Habits, which addresses lying, greed, corruption, gambling, and other vices. He has also authored Muslim-Christian Interactions and other titles in the comparative-religion and ethics genres.

Ondigo's writing is distinctive for its grounding in lived East African Muslim experience, his approachable prose, and his consistent return to Qur'an and authentic hadith as the framework for moral reflection. His works are widely stocked in English-language Islamic bookstores and used in da'wah and introductory Islamic ethics programs across the Muslim world.
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