Al-Nawawi
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Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi () (October 1233 – 21 December 1277) was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar. Al-Nawawi died at the relatively early age of 45. Despite this, he authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence that are still read to this day. Al-Nawawi, along with Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i, are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (al-Shaykhayn).
Key facts
- Muslim scholar.name
- Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī
- Muslim scholar.religion
- Islam
- Muslim scholar.title
- Shaykh ul-IslamQutb al-Awliya'al-ShaykhaynAl-Ḥāfiẓ
- Muslim scholar.birth_date
- Muharram 631 AH / October 1233
- Muslim scholar.birth_place
- Nawa, Ayyubid Sultanate
- Muslim scholar.death_date
- 24 Rajab 676 AH / 21 December 1277 (age 45)
- Muslim scholar.death_place
- Nawa, Mamluk Sultanate
- Muslim scholar.resting_place
- Nawa, present Syria
- Muslim scholar.occupation
- Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist.
- Muslim scholar.denomination
- Sunni
- Muslim scholar.school
- Shafi'i
- Muslim scholar.creed
- Ash'ari
- Muslim scholar.main_interests
- Fiqh, Usul, Hadith, Mantiq
- Muslim scholar.influences
- Al-Shafi'iAbu al-Hasan al-Ash'ariAl-GhazaliIbn AsakirAbu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i
- Arabic name.embed
- yes
- Arabic name.ism
- Yaḥyā
- Arabic name.ism ar
- يَحْيَىٰ
- Arabic name.nasab
- Ibn Sharaf ibn Murī ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿa ibn Hizam
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Nawa
- Place of death
- Nawa
- Occupation
- ulema
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- Notable work
- Riyāḍ al-ṣāliḥīn
- Field of work
- hadith
- Image
- Al-Nawawi.png
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- name in native language
- يحيى بن شرف الحزامي النووي الشافعي
- date of death
- 1278-12-22
- ethnic group
- Arabs
- Commons category
- Al-Nawawi
- date of birth
- 1233-10-00
- nickname
- شيخ الشافعية
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons Creator page
- An-Nawawi
- honorific prefix
- Sheikh-ul-Islam
- madhhab
- Shafi'i
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Life as a scholar
- Notable teachers
- Creed
- Relationship with Baybars
- Death and legacy
- Destruction of tomb
- Works
- Recent English language editions
- Minhaj al-Talibin
- The Forty Hadith
- Riyad al-Salihin
- See also
- References
- External links
Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi () (October 1233 – 21 December 1277) was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar. Al-Nawawi died at the relatively early age of 45. Despite this, he authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence that are still read to this day. Al-Nawawi, along with Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i, are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (al-Shaykhayn).
==Early life==
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