20 Hadith for Kids

The Sunnah is the most authentic explanation and elaboration of the Word of Allah. Many worthy collections of hadith have been compiled and translated into English — and very few have been put together specifically for children and young people.

This collection was made to fill that gap.

How the Twenty Were Chosen

They will appeal to any age, but they were selected with young readers in mind — taking their needs and interests into account rather than picking the narrations an adult would consider most important.

That distinction is the whole value of the book. A child given twenty hadith he can see the point of will learn all twenty; given twenty chosen for their theological weight, he will learn none.

What Comes With Each One

A translation and a brief commentary, written in plain language and explained for the ordinary mind rather than the trained one. And exercises, which is what turns a collection into something a teacher can build a lesson around.

Who It Is For

Children and teenagers. Weekend schools and Islamic school classes — twenty hadith with exercises maps neatly onto a term. Parents working through it at home.

Related Reading

• 60 Golden Hadith for Children — sixty short hadith for younger children
• Forty Hadith on Prayer — forty hadith on prayer, Arabic and English
• Riyad-us-Saliheen — the collection these are drawn from the tradition of