At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Overview
Al-Nawawi died unmarried in his father's house at Nawa. Shadharat al-Dhahab gives the night of Wednesday 14 Rajab 676, while Ibn Kathir and the Encyclopaedia of Islam fix it at 24 Rajab, 22 December 1277; he was buried in his home town, where his tomb is still honoured. Before his death he had travelled home and visited Jerusalem and Hebron, then returned and fell ill at his parents' house 1 2 3." ur: "نووی کبھی شادی نہیں کی اور اپنے والد کے گھر نوى میں فوت ہوئے۔ شذرات الذہب نے بدھ کی رات 14 رجب 676ھ دی ہے، جبکہ ابن کثیر اور دائرۃ المعارف نے 24 رجب، بمطابق 22 دسمبر 1277ء، ضبط کیا؛ وہ اپنے گاؤں میں دفن ہوئے اور ان کا مزار آج بھی وہاں معزز ہے۔ وفات سے پہلے وہ اپنے گاؤں گئے، بیت المقدس اور خلیل کی زیارت کی، پھر لوٹ کر والدین کے ہاں بیمار ہوئے 1 2 3۔
Connections
- Had participant
- Imam al-Nawawi
- Occurred at
- Nawa
- During the reign of
- al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi
People and things also explored
Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi finishes the Minhaj and the Rawda, 669/1270-71· Al-Nawawi completes al-Tahrir fi alfaz al-Tanbih, 671/1272-73· Birth of Imam al-Nawawi at Nawa, 631/1233· Imam al-Nawawi· Nawa· Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1096
- al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir , p. 294
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 356
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islam.museum contributors. “Death of Imam al-Nawawi at Nawa, 676/1277”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/death-al-nawawi-676/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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