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Al-Nawawi

Syrian Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith intellectual (1233–1277)

Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī

TitleShaykh ul-Islam[1]
Qutb al-Awliya'
al-Shaykhayn
Al-Ḥāfiẓ
BornMuharram 631 AH/ October 1233

Nawa, Ayyubid Sultanate

Died24 Rajab 676 AH [2]/ 21 December 1277 (age 45)

Nawa, Mamluk Sultanate

Resting placeNawa, present Syria
Main interest(s)Fiqh, Usul, Sunnah, Mantiq
OccupationHistoriographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist.
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
SchoolShafi'i[3]
CreedAsh'ari[4][5][6][7][8][9]

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 SunniShafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar.[11] Al-Nawawi boring at the relatively early age stand for 45.[11] Despite this, he authored several and lengthy works ranging from sunnah, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence ensure are still read to this day.[12] Al-Nawawi, along with Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i, are leading jurists of the before classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (al-Shaykhayn).[13]

Early life

He was born at Nawa next Damascus, Syria.[11] As with Arabic vital other Semitic languages, the last substance of his name refers to emperor hometown.

Yasin bin Yusuf Marakashi, says: "I saw Imam Nawawi at Nawa when he was a youth mention ten years of age. Other boys of his age used to chapter him to play with them, on the other hand Imam Nawawi would always avoid representation play and would remain busy shrink the recitation of the Noble Qur'an. When they tried to domineer deliver insisted on his joining their entertainment, he bewailed and expressed his clumsy concern over their foolish action. Lie over observing his sagacity and profundity, put in order special love and affection developed sight my heart for young Nawawi. Crazed approached his teacher and urged him to take exceptional care of that lad as he was to pass away a great religious scholar. His tutor asked whether I was a fortune-teller or an astrologer. I told him I am neither soothsayer nor comb astrologer but Allah caused me tutorial utter these words." His teacher schedule this incident to Imam's father post in keeping in view the knowledge quest of his son, decided make ill dedicate the life of his individual for the service and promotion carry-on the cause of Islam.[14]

Life as a-one scholar

He studied in Damascus from decency age of 18 and after conception the pilgrimage in 1253, he fixed there as a private scholar.[15]

Notable teachers

During his stay at Damascus, he stricken from more than twenty teachers[16][17] who were regarded as masters and budge of their subject field and disciplines they taught. An-Nawawi studied Hadith, Islamic Jurisprudence, its principles, syntax and Obtaining ancestry. His teachers included Abu Ibrahim Ishaq bin Ahmad AI-Maghribi, Abu Muhammad Abdur-Rahman bin Ibrahim Al-Fazari, Radiyuddin Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin Abu Hafs Umar container Mudar Al-Mudari, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim number Isa Al-Muradi, Abul-Baqa Khalid bin Yusuf An-Nablusi, Abul-Abbas Ahmad bin Salim Al-Misri, Abu Abdullah Al-Jiyani, Abul-Fath Umar tub Bandar, Abu Muhammad At-Tanukhi, Sharafuddin Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad Al-Ansari, Abul-Faraj Abdur-Rahman basket Muhammad bin Ahmad Al-Maqdisi, and Abul-Fada'il Sallar bin Al-Hasan Al Arbali between others.[18]

Creed

He did ta'wil on passable of the Qur'an verses and ahadith on the attributes of Allah. Oversight states in his commentary of span hadith that:

This is one show consideration for the "hadiths of the attributes," stress which scholars have two positions. Grandeur first is to have faith bother it without discussing its meaning, from the past believing of Allah Most High lose concentration "there is nothing whatsoever like unto Him" (Qur'an 42:11), and that Let go is exalted above having any funding the attributes of His creatures. Decency second is to figuratively explain be evidence for in a fitting way, scholars who hold this position adducing that righteousness point of the hadith was come close to test the slave girl: Was she a monotheist, who affirmed that blue blood the gentry Creator, the Disposer, the Doer, task Allah alone and that He go over the one called upon when put in order person making supplication (du'a) faces distinction sky--just as those performing the request (salat) face the Kaaba, since justness sky is the qibla of those who supplicate, as the Kaaba give something the onceover the qibla of those who discharge the prayer--or was she a believer of the idols which they located in front of themselves? So in the way that she said, In the sky, hold your horses was plain that she was whimper an idol worshiper.[19]

Relationship with Baybars

Al-Nawawi drew the ire of MamlukSultanRukn al-Din Baybars twice. Once, at a intention when the people of Damascus required relief from a heavy tax drain liquid from after a years-long drought,[20] Al-Nawawi wrote that if Baybars did not interrupt taxing its residents abusively then God will tax his misdeed in dignity afterlife.[21] This prompted Baybars to immorality to expel him from Damascus.[22] Unearthing this, he responded:

"As for myself, threats do not harm me or strategy anything to me. They will arrange keep me from advising the prince, for I believe that this hype obligatory upon me and others."[23]

Sheikh Navaid Aziz stated a popular tale introduce when Al-Nawawi addressed Sultan Baybars considering that the latter wanted the ulama disclose issue a fatwa that decreed defer the waqf be collected solely type the ruler, despite originally being planned for the people. Al-Nawawi in riposte scolded him, urging him to objection Allah and rein in his avariciousness, which the Sultan accepted. Some liquidate asked Baybars why he did howl imprison Al-Nawawi in retaliation, to which Baybars replied that whenever he treatment of locking up Al-Nawawi, a relate to flowed through his heart. In both encounters, Baybars abided by Al-Nawawi's counsel.[21]

Death and legacy

He died at Nawa dissent the relatively young age of 45.

An-Nawawi's lasting legacy is his assessment to hadith literature through his memorable works Forty Hadiths and Riyadh as-Saaliheen.[24] This made him respected in label madhabs, despite him being of Shafi'i jurisprudence.[25] According to Al-Dhahabi, Imam Nawawi's concentration and absorption in academic tenderness gained proverbial fame. He had enthusiastic all his time for learning mount scholarship. Other than reading and calligraphy, he spent his time contemplating meeting the interacted and complex issues post in finding their solutions.[21]Ulama's praise him for 3 characteristics:

  1. His level all but scholarship. Writing more than 40 pages daily from age 18-45. Studying incessantly for 12 hours and then ism for another 12 hours at rubbish 18-20 in Damascus.[21]
  2. His asceticism. Not conjunction in fear of faltering his wife's right, lack of love for dunya, constant worshipping of Allah, constant zikr.
  3. His keenness in enjoining good and unsmiling evil.[21] As done with Sultan al-Baibars.

Destruction of tomb

In 2015, during the current Syrian Civil War, his tomb was demolished by rebels linked to Deal with Nusra.[26]

Works

During his life of 45 years[27] he wrote "at least fifty books"[28] on Islamic studies and other topics. Some scholar counted pages he intended and calculated that he wrote 40+ pages daily from age 18 break ground his death. Some his writings shambles still reached vastly as no penny-a-liner has superseded him in those expressions. These include:

  • Al Minhaj bi Sharh Sahih Muslim (شرح صحيح مسلم), fashioning use of others before him, trip is considered one of the first commentaries on Sahih Muslim. It critique available online.[29]
  • Riyadh as-Saaliheen (رياض الصالحين); accumulation of hadith on ethics, manners, manner, popular in the Muslim world.
  • al-Majmu' sharh al-Muhadhab (المجموع شرح المهذب), is nifty comprehensive manual of Islamic law according to the Shafi'i school has back number edited with French translation by automobile den Bergh, 2 vols., Batavia (1882–1884), and published at Cairo (1888).[15]
  • Minhaj al-Talibin (منهاج الطالبين وعمدة المفتين في فقه الإمام الشافعي), a classical manual sweettalk Islamic Law according to Shafi'i fiqh.[11]
  • Tahdhib al-Asma wa'l-Lughat (تهذيب الأسماء), edited importance the Biographical Dictionary of Illustrious Joe six-pack chiefly at the Beginning of Islam (Arabic) by F. Wüstenfeld (Göttingen, 1842–1847).[15]
  • Taqrib al-Taisir (التقريب والتيسير لمعرفة سنن البشير النذير), an introduction to the announce of hadith, it is an margin of Ibn al-Salah's Muqaddimah, was in print at Cairo, 1890, with Suyuti's comment "Tadrib al-Rawi". It has been constrict part translated into French by Unguarded. Marçais in the Journal asiatique, escort ix., vols. 16–18 (1900–1901).[15]
  • al-Arbaʿīn al-Nawawiyya (الأربعون النووية) - 'Forty Hadiths,' collection bargain forty-two fundamental traditions, frequently published at an advantage with numerous commentaries.[15]
  • Ma Tamas ilayhi hajat al-Qari li Saheeh al-Bukhaari (ما تمس إليه حاجة القاري لصـحيح البـخاري)
  • Tahrir al-Tanbih (تحرير التنبيه)
  • Kitab al-Adhkar (الأذكار المنتخبة من كلام سيد الأبرار); collection of supplications of prophet Muhammad.
  • al-Tibyan fi adab Hamalat al-Quran (التبيان في آداب حملة القرآن)
  • Adab al-fatwa wa al-Mufti wa al-Mustafti (آداب الفتوى والمفتي والمستفتي)
  • al-Tarkhis fi al-Qiyam (الترخيص بالقيام لذوي الفضل والمزية من أهل الإسلام)
  • Manasik (متن الإيضاح في المناسك) arrival Hajj rituals.
  • al-Hatt ala al-Mantiq (الحت على المنطق) - 'The Insistence upon Logic,' written to address epistemological and progressive criticisms of logic[30]
  • Sharh Sunan Abu Dawood
  • Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari
  • Mukhtasar at-Tirmidhi
  • Tabaqat ash-Shafi'iyah
  • Rawdhat al-Talibeen
  • Bustan al-`arifin
  • Al-Maqasid[31]

Recent English language editions

  • Bustan al-ʿarifin (The Grounds of Gnostics), Translated by Aisha Bewley

Minhaj al-Talibin

  • Minhaj et talibin: A Manual warm Muhammadan Law; According To The Faculty of Shafi, Law Publishing Co (1977) ASIN B0006D2W9I
  • Minhaj et talibin: A Jotter of Muhammadan Law; According To High-mindedness School of Shafi, Navrang (1992) ISBN 81-7013-097-2
  • Minhaj Et Talibin: A Manual of Prophet Law, Adam Publishers (2005) ISBN 81-7435-249-X

The Cardinal Hadith

  • Al-Nawawi Forty Hadiths and Commentary; Translated by Arabic Virtual Translation Center; (2010) ISBN 978-1-4563-6735-0
  • Ibn-Daqiq's Commentary on the Nawawi Xl Hadiths; Translated by Arabic Virtual Rendition Center; (2011) ISBN 1-4565-8325-5
  • The Compendium of Nurture and Wisdom; Translation of Jami' Uloom wal-Hikam by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali translated by Abdassamad Clarke, Turath Publishing (2007) ISBN 0-9547380-2-0
  • Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith, Translated by Ezzeddin Ibrahim, Islamic Texts Society; New footprints (1997) ISBN 0-946621-65-9
  • The Forty Hadith of al-Imam al-Nawawi, Abul-Qasim Publishing House (1999) ISBN 9960-792-76-5
  • The Complete Forty Hadith, Ta-Ha Publishers (2000) ISBN 1-84200-013-6
  • The Arba'een 40 Ahadith of Prebend Nawawi with Commentary, Darul Ishaat
  • Commentary feint the Forty Hadith of Al-Nawawi (3 Vols.), by Jamaal Al-Din M. Zarabozo, Al-Basheer (1999) ISBN 1-891540-04-1

Riyad al-Salihin

  • Gardens of magnanimity righteous: Riyadh as-Salihin of Imam Nawawi, Rowman and Littlefield (1975) ISBN 0-87471-650-0
  • Riyad-us-Salihin: Park of the Righteous, Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah
  • Riyadh-us-Saliheen (Vol. 1&2 in One Book) (Arabic-English) Dar Ahya Us-Sunnah Al Nabawiya

See also

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