Forty hadiths, which were formed by bringing together forty hadiths of our Prophet, were pronounced as erbain-erba’un in Arabic, çihl-çihil in Persian and were named forty hadiths in Turkish. The main reason for the emergence of forty hadiths describing the life and world view of Islam with their moral, didactic, religious, social and literary features is the meaning of “Whoever learns forty of my hadiths and teaches them to others, may Allah resurrect him among scholars and jurists on the Day of Judgment” it is a hadith. Forty hadiths have been compiled to include the virtues of the Qur’an, the conditions of Islam, the subjects of mysticism, the virtues of the cities, the Prophet and his Companions, the social and moral aspects of life, humor, medicine, science, and politics. Many verse, prose, verse-prose forty hadiths were written in Turkish, Arabic and Persian literature. In Turkish literature, forty hadiths in verse were written in Persian as well as forty hadiths in Turkish. As a matter of fact, our poets such as İdris-i Bitlisi, Uzun Firdevsi and Iznikli Selami wrote forty hadiths in Persian verse. Yusuf Nuri Efendi is one of our poets who took Mollo Jami as an example and wrote forty hadiths in Persian verse. Nuri’s Persian verse translation of forty hadith consists of a prose preface and the translation of forty hadiths in two couplets. In this study, Nuri’s translation of forty verse in Persian, dated 953/1585, which is in the Lala İsmail Collection of the Suleymaniye Manuscripts Library (nr. 31, 1b-9b), will be discussed for the first time, the work will be written in Persian and translated into Turkish.

Yusuf Nuri Efendi, forty hadiths, verse forty hadiths, Persian forty hadiths.