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al-Sayyida Nafisa

السيدة نفيسة

c. 762 CE · c. 145 AH – 824 CE · 208 AH

Nafisa bt. al-Hasan b. Zayd b. al-Hasan b. Ali b. Abi Talib — al-Sayyida Nafisa; a devout Alid woman who settled in Cairo; al-Shafi'i attended her hadith sessions and she prayed over his funeral in her house; her Cairo shrine is still a pilgrimage site 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Said ibn Aws Abu Zayd al-Ansari · Sulayman ibn Harb · al-Jahiz · Ibn al-A'rabi, Muhammad ibn Ziyad

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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