an-Nawawī

Muhyī ad-Dīn Abū Zakarīyā Yahyā ibn Sharaf an-Nawawī ( Arabic محيي الدين أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي, DMG Muḥyī ad-Dīn Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā ibn Šaraf an-Nawawī born. 1233 in Nawa ; died 1277 ibid) was a Sunni lawyer and traditional scholar of the Shafiite direction, who studied and taught in Damascus . He was born in Nawa, near Damascus. The last part of his name an-Nawawī indicates this fact. During his work, he especially drew the anger of the Mamluks ruler Rukn al-Din Baybars, as he repeatedly campaigned for the interests of the people of Damascus.

His lasting influence includes in particular the hadith literature, which he had a lasting impact on with his two best-known works, The Book of Forty Hadith and The Gardens of the Virtuous .

Teaching of the forty hadiths from an-Nawawi at the Sultan Hasan Mosque in Egypt

LWC van den Berg (1845–1927) translated one of his Shafiite religious rules into French.

Works

Commentary on the hadith collection of Muslim
al-Maǧmūʿ šarḥ al-Muhaḏḏab , commentary on the systematic legal work al-Muhaḏḏab by Abū Ishāq aš-Šīrāzī (d. 1083)
Two collections of traditions that are still popular today for moral and educational purposes: The Book of Forty Hadith and The Gardens of the Virtuous .

literature

Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī: The Book of Forty Hadith. Kitāb al-Arbaʿīn with the commentary Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd. Translated from the Arabic. u. ed. by Marco Schöller. Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-70006-7 .
W. Heffening: To the life and to the writings at-Nawawi's. In: Islam. Volume XXII, 1935, pp. 165-190 and Volume XXIV, 1937, pp. 131-150.
Louis Pouzet: Une herméneutique de la Tradition islamique: le commentaire of the "Al-Arba`un an-Nawawiya" de Muhyi ad-Din Yahya al-Nawawi (m. 676/1277). Beirut 1982, ISBN 2-7214-5494-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ludwig W. Adamec : Historical Dictionary of Islam . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6161-9 .
↑ Jamaal al-Din M Zarabozo: Commentary on the Forty Hadith of al-Nawawi . Al-Basheer Company, Denver 2008, ISBN 978-1-891540-04-2 .
↑ Minhâdj aṭ-ṭâlibîn: le guide des zélés croyants; manuel de jurisprudence musulmane selon le rite de Châfi'î. Texts arabe, publié par ordre du gouvernement avec traduction et annotations. Batavia: Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1882–1884 (3 volumes)

Web links

Literature by and about An-Nawawī in the catalog of the German National Library
Online edition of the Forty Hadith ( Pdf 107 KB )

personal data
SURNAME	An-Nawawī
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nawawi Yahya ibn Sharaf ad-Din
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sunni scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1233
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nawa (Syria)
DATE OF DEATH	1277
Place of death	Nawa (Syria)

[1] Ludwig W. Adamec : Historical Dictionary of Islam . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6161-9 .

[2] Jamaal al-Din M Zarabozo: Commentary on the Forty Hadith of al-Nawawi . Al-Basheer Company, Denver 2008, ISBN 978-1-891540-04-2 .

[3] Minhâdj aṭ-ṭâlibîn: le guide des zélés croyants; manuel de jurisprudence musulmane selon le rite de Châfi'î. Texts arabe, publié par ordre du gouvernement avec traduction et annotations. Batavia: Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1882–1884 (3 volumes)