The Book of Forty Hadiths on the Proofs of Divine Oneness

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. There is no power nor strength except through Allah, the Most High, the Magnificent.

1 – The shaykh and imam, the Shaykh of Islam and beacon of the Sunnah, Abū Nasr Ahmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ishāq, narrated to us from a text I read aloud to him: The shaykh and imam, the champion of the Sunnah and imam of imams, Abū Ismāʿīl ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ansārī—may Allah have mercy on him—narrated to us and said:

• (1) Chapter: The Obligation of Sincere Intention in Every Deed)

1 – ʿAlī ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Tarrāzī narrated to us in Nishapur: We were told by