In this collection, the great eighteenth century Hadith master, Shāh Walī Allāh, transmits forty hadith that he heard directly from his teacher, Sheikh Abu Tāhir al-Kurdī al-Madanī, with an uninterrupted chain of transmission through Imām al-Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him). Shāh Walī Allāh was born in northern India in 1703 in a learned family descended from the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. As a young man, he studied the major hadith collections with his father and then traveled to the Hijaz, where he continued his studies with various eminent teachers, including Shaykh Abu Tāhir al-Kurdī al-Madani, through whom he transmits the hadiths in this collection. Shah Wali Allah composed some fifty works in total, including the Hujjat Allah al-Baligha or The Conclusive Argument from God—which is considered his prime achievement—and an early Persian translation of the Qur an, as well as a number of works treating Islamic legal methodologies and Sufi metaphysics.