Al-Nawawi
Syrian Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar (1233–1277) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (Arabic: يحيى بن شرف النووي, romanized: Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī; (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277) was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar.[11] Al-Nawawi died at the relatively early age of 45.[11] Despite this, he authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence that are still read to this day.[12] 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).[13]
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Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī | |
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Title | Shaykh ul-Islam[1] Qutb al-Awliya' al-Shaykhayn Al-Ḥāfiẓ |
Personal | |
Born | Muharram 631 AH/ October 1233 |
Died | 24 Rajab 676 AH [2]/ 21 December 1277 (age 45) Nawa, Mamluk Sultanate |
Resting place | Nawa, present Syria |
Religion | Islam |
Denomination | Sunni |
School | Shafi'i[3] |
Creed | Ash'ari[4][5][6][7][8][9] |
Main interest(s) | Fiqh, Usul, Hadith, Mantiq |
Occupation | Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist. |
Muslim leader | |
Arabic name | |
Personal (Ism) | Yaḥyā |
Patronymic (Nasab) | Ibn Sharaf ibn Marri ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumah ibn Ḥazm |
Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū Zakariyyā |
Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Nawawī |
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