[Gogogo]

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah,

Alhamdulillah, I recently finished my hifdh of Imam Nawawi's Arba'een, having recited it to two teachers. May Allah enable me to act upon these ahadith ameen.

I had a question for the tullabul 'ilm on this forum: Is there any specific technique you use in retaining hadith? Alhamdulillah, I find remembering the matn of the hadith very easy but find remembering the method of narration (e.g. anna rasulullah vs. qala rasulullah etc.) quite hard.

Any tips will be much appreciated. My teachers said that the best way to do it is to teach other people. But I don't think I am sufficiently qualified to go into that.

Jazakumullah

Wassalam

[aliceingoogs]

Wa ´alaykum as-salam wa rahmatu'Allahi Ta´ala wa barakatuh,

Congratulations on completing such a blessed task, sayyidi. Since no one has replied I decided to state the obvious... revision!
Lack of revision is probablt the most common cause of forgetting, whether it is memorization or understanding. If possible, you should try to to teach it, even if just to your friends. If not, you can practice by narrating and explaining it to yourself.

Wa Allahu a´lam.

wassalam

[Gogogo]

Wa ´alaykum as-salam wa rahmatu'Allahi Ta´ala wa barakatuh,

Congratulations on completing such a blessed task, sayyidi. Since no one has replied I decided to state the obvious... revision!
Lack of revision is probablt the most common cause of forgetting, whether it is memorization or understanding. If possible, you should try to to teach it, even if just to your friends. If not, you can practice by narrating and explaining it to yourself.

Wa Allahu a´lam.

wassalam

Salaam Sidi

Jazak Allah khair for your naseeha and encouraging words!

InshaAllah I will try to revise on a regular basis and write them whenever possible from memory. In addition, will start some basic sharh on these inshaAllah.

One amazing thing I noticed is that the 40 ahadith essentially capture the essence of tazkiyah/tasawwuf. And Alhamdulillah, I am finding this supremely beneficial.

E.g.
Whenever an evil thought about a fellow muslim comes to my mind, my memory reminds me of "It is evil enough for a man to hold his brother muslim in contempt" [35]

Whenever an urge commit a sin comes to my head, my memory reminds me of "Fear Allah wherever you are" [18]

Whenever kushoo in salah is slipping, I am reminded of "It is to worship Allah as though you are seeing Him, and while you see Him not yet truly He sees you" [2]

Whenever my tongue's about to say something evil, I am reminded of "Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day either speak good or keep silent" [15]

And there are so many more examples! SubhanAllahi wa bihamdih!

I really encourage everyone on this forum to memorise these blessed 40 (42 to be precise) ahadith. It's probably the best thing you can do after memorising the words of Allah Himself. Forget wasting hours and hours debating and discussing about "X scholar said this", "Y scholar is a mubtadi'" etc.

[Heacechig]

Salaam Sidi

Jazak Allah khair for your naseeha and encouraging words!

InshaAllah I will try to revise on a regular basis and write them whenever possible from memory. In addition, will start some basic sharh on these inshaAllah.

One amazing thing I noticed is that the 40 ahadith essentially capture the essence of tazkiyah/tasawwuf. And Alhamdulillah, I am finding this supremely beneficial.

E.g.
Whenever an evil thought about a fellow muslim comes to my mind, my memory reminds me of "It is evil enough for a man to hold his brother muslim in contempt" [35]

Whenever an urge commit a sin comes to my head, my memory reminds me of "Fear Allah wherever you are" [18]

Whenever kushoo in salah is slipping, I am reminded of "It is to worship Allah as though you are seeing Him, and while you see Him not yet truly He sees you" [2]

Whenever my tongue's about to say something evil, I am reminded of "Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day either speak good or keep silent" [15]

And there are so many more examples! SubhanAllahi wa bihamdih!

I really encourage everyone on this forum to memorise these blessed 40 (42 to be precise) ahadith. It's probably the best thing you can do after memorising the words of Allah Himself. Forget wasting hours and hours debating and discussing about "X scholar said this", "Y scholar is a mubtadi'" etc.

for the examples you gave brother, they are in fact some nice tips one can implement in their daily life (and I'm not sure if it was even your intention to give "tips" but rather you were just giving an example of your situation... Subhan'Allah amazing how that works huh).

This gave me an idea that Insha'Allah you can help give advice in different threads on SF based on these ahadith you have, Masha'Allah, committed to memory, and Insha'Allah that would serve as a regular "revision" and "teaching" of sorts as well.

Also another way to revise & teach would be to participate in halqas of taleem at your local and other masajid Insha'Allah and take advantage of the fact that you have these 40 ahadith memorized and are able to recite them from memory.

Please make dua that may all of us be able to commit the word of Allah and then the ahadith of His Messenger to memory word for word. Ameen.