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Forty hadith

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Forty hadith (Arabic: الأربعينات, romanized: al'arbaeinat) is a genre of hadith literature. First attested in the 8th century CE, the genre emerged in response to a hadith promising great boons to anyone who preserved forty hadiths for the Muslim people. It remained in wide use as a means of communicating Islamic teachings in a readily accessible format, with hundreds of works attested through the sixteenth century CE. Although the genre has been less prevalent with the canonization of hadiths, works continue to be edited and published.