Imam al-Nawawi
الإمام النووي
The jurist and ascetic Imam Abu Zakariyya Yahya al-Nawawi; compiler of the 'Arba'un', forty-two concise hadiths built on Ibn al-Salah's twenty-six, which became one of the most memorised and commented collections in Islam.
Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith · Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Scripture and its sciencesDevelopment of law, theology and institutions
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Connections
People and things also explored
al-Ahadith al-KulliyyaJami' al-Ulum wal-Hikamal-Arba'un al-Nawawiyya (Nawawi's Forty)Abdullah ibn AbbasAbu Bakr al-KhallalIbn Rajab al-HanbaliMalik ibn AnasUthman ibn Affan
Sources
- Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam — Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
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