The term "targhib" means "reward", "inducement", "seducing" or "luring", and the term "terhib" means "punishment".[1][2][4][3] Thus the Quranic concept of "Targhib wal Tarhib" means "reward and Punishment".[1]
An excellent collection of Hadith from the Classical Period that discusses the benefits of different good deeds and cautions against certain bad deeds. Anyone engaged in the work of encouraging good and forbidding evil (Da'wah) will find this book to be of great assistance.[6] The book contains almost one thousand hadiths according to Maktaba Shamila.[7]
One notable manuscript of the saying was copied by Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif, a Moroccan woman who was a jurist and scribe, and is dated to 1802.[9]