Al-Nawawi
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. 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.
Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī | |
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| Title | Imam, Shaykh ul-Islam |
| Personal | |
| Born | Muharram 631 AH/ October 1233 Nawa, Ayyubid Sultanate |
| Died | 24 Rajab 676 AH / 21 December 1277 (age 45) Nawa, Mamluk Sultanate |
| Resting place | Nawa, present Syria |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| School | Shafi'i |
| Creed | Ashʿarī |
| Main interest(s) | Fiqh, Usul, Hadith, Mantiq |
| Occupation | Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist. |
| Muslim leader | |
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| 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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