205curated hadith rotate here, mostly from Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, each from Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, or the Sunan collections with its reference cited.

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Actions are by intentions

Wednesday, February 12, 2003

إِنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ، وَإِنَّمَا لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى

Transliteration

Innama-l-a'malu bi-n-niyyat, wa innama li-kulli-mri'in ma nawa.

Translation

Actions are judged by intentions, and every person will have what they intended.

Narrated by Umar ibn al-Khattab·Sahih al-Bukhari 1, Sahih Muslim 1907·Nawawi's Forty · #1

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