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{{Infobox Muslim scholar
| name               = Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī
| religion           = [[Islam]]
| title              = [[Shaykh ul-Islam]]<ref> Imam ash-Sharif Muhammad ibn Al-Hasan Al-Wasiti al-Husayni d. 776 A.H al-Matalib Al-‘Aliyyah fit-Tabaqat ash-Shafi’iyyah </ref><br/>Qutb al-Awliya'<br/>al-Shaykhayn<br/>[[Hafiz (Quran)|Al-Ḥāfiẓ]]
| birth_name         = 
| birth_date         = [[Muharram]] 631 [[Islamic calendar|AH]] / October 1233
| birth_place        = [[Nawa (Syria)|Nawa]], [[Ayyubid dynasty|Ayyubid Sultanate]]
| death_date         = 24 [[Rajab]] 676 AH  <ref>{{cite web|url=http://kitaabun.com/shopping3/product_info.php?products_id=1445 |title=kitaabun-Classical and Contemporary Muslim and Islamic Books |publisher=Kitaabun.com |date=2003-01-23 |access-date=2014-05-20}}</ref> / 21 December 1277  (age 45)
| death_place        = Nawa, [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk Sultanate]]
| death_cause        = 
| resting_place      = Nawa, present [[Syria]]
| other_names        = 
| nationality        = 
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| era                = 
| region             = 
| occupation         = Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist.
| denomination       = [[Sunni]]
| school             = [[Shafi'i]]<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Was Ibn Kathīr the 'Spokesperson' for Ibn Taymiyya? Jonah as a Prophet of Obedience|url = http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jqs.2014.0130|journal = Journal of Qur'anic Studies|date = 2014-02-01|issn = 1465-3591|page = 4|volume = 16|issue = 1|doi = 10.3366/jqs.2014.0130|last1 = Mirza|first1 = Younus Y.|url-access = subscription}}</ref>
| creed              = [[Ash'ari]]<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Namira Nahouza]]|title=Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists: Theology, Power and Sunni Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyaODwAAQBAJ|date=2018|publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]]|isbn=9781838609832|pages=121–122}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.darultahqiq.com/3029-2/|title=Imam al-Nawawi was an Ash'ari|website=www.darultahqiq.com|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210404225704/https://www.darultahqiq.com/3029-2/|archive-date=4 April 2021|access-date=15 April 2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sunnah.org/2008/07/18/the-ashari-school-sayyid-alawi-al-maliki|title=The Ash'ari School|author=[[Muhammad ibn 'Alawi al-Maliki]]|website=[[As-Sunnah Foundation of America]]|date=18 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112184122/http://sunnah.org/2008/07/18/the-ashari-school-sayyid-alawi-al-maliki|archive-date=12 Jan 2021|quote=[[Shaykh al-Islam]] [[Ahmad ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani]] (d. 852/1449; [[Rahimahullah]]), the mentor of Hadith scholars and author of the book "[[Fath al-Bari bi-Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari]]", which not a single Islamic scholar can dispense with, was Ash'ari. The shaykh of the scholars of Sunni Islam, Imam al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277; Rahimahullah), author of "[[Al Minhaj bi Sharh Sahih Muslim|Sharh Sahih Muslim]]" and many other famous works, was Ash'ari. The master of Qur'anic exegetes, Imam [[al-Qurtubi]] (d. 671/1273; Rahimahullah), author of "[[al-Jami' li-Ahkam al-Qur'an]]", was Ash'ari. Shaykh al-Islam [[Ibn Hajar al-Haytami]] (d. 974/1567; Rahimahullah), who wrote "al-Zawajir 'an Iqtiraf al-Kaba'ir", was Ash'ari. The Shaykh of Sacred Law and Hadith, the conclusive definitive [[Zakariyya al-Ansari]] (d. 926/1520; Rahimahullah), was Ash'ari. Imam [[Abu Bakr al-Baqillani]] (d. 403/1013; Rahimahullah), Imam al-'Asqalani; Imam [[Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi|al-Nasafi]] (d. 710/1310; Rahimahullah); Imam [[Al-Khatib al-Shirbini|al-Shirbini]] (d. 977/1570; Rahimahullah); [[Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati]], author of the Qur'anic commentary "al-Bahr al-Muhit"; Imam [[Ibn Juzayy]] (d. 741/1340; Rahimahullah); author of "al-Tashil fi 'Ulum al-Tanzil"; and others – all of these were Imams of the Ash'aris.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Bennett|first1=Clinton|authorlink=Clinton Bennett|title=The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsWFBwAAQBAJ|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Academic]]|date=15 January 2015|isbn=9781472586902|page=128|quote=There are many followers of the Ash'ariyyah among the great Muslim scholars, such as al-Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, al-Sauiti, al-Mazari, Ibn Hajer al Askalani, and al Nawawi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez|title=The Legal Thought of Jalāl Al-Din Al-Suyūṭī: Authority and Legacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ssU2DwAAQBAJ|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=2017|isbn=9780198805939|page=205|quote=people who support burning established and respected works like Ibn Hajar's al-Fath al-Bari and al-Nawawi's Sharh Sahih Muslim because the authors are Ash'ari.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mansfield|first1=Laura|title=His Own Words: Translation and Analysis of the Writings of Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mt5_aNiyqUoC|publisher=[[Thesaurus Linguae Graecae|TLG Publications]]|date=2006|isbn=9781847288806|page=265|quote=Many of the most learned ulema of Islam such as Izz Bin Abdul Salam, al-Nawawi, and Ibn Hajar - may God have mercy on them - were Ashari.}}</ref>
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| main_interests     = [[Fiqh]], [[Usul al-Fiqh|Usul]], [[Hadith studies|Hadith]], [[Mantiq]]
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| alma_mater         = 
| Sufi_order         = 
| disciple_of        = 
| awards             = 
| influences         = [[Al-Shafi'i]]<br/>[[Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari]]<br/>[[Al-Ghazali]]<ref>Atlas, Jonas. Re-visioning Sufism. Yunus Publishing, 2019. pp.13-15</ref><br/>[[Ibn Asakir]]<br/>[[Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i]]
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'''Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi''' ({{langx|ar|يحيى بن شرف النووي|translit=Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī}}) (October 1233 – 21 December 1277) was a [[Sunni]] [[Shafiʽi school|Shafi'ite]] jurist and [[Hadith studies|hadith scholar]].<ref name="Ludwig 2009">[[Ludwig W. Adamec]] (2009), ''Historical Dictionary of Islam'', pp.238-239. Scarecrow Press. {{ISBN|0810861615}}.</ref> Al-Nawawi died at the relatively early age of 45.<ref name="Ludwig 2009" /> Despite this, he authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from [[hadith]], to [[Aqidah|theology]], [[Prophetic biography|biography]], and [[Fiqh|jurisprudence]] that are still read to this day.<ref>Fachrizal A. Halim (2014), ''Legal Authority in Premodern Islam: Yahya B Sharaf Al-Nawawi in the Shafi'i School of Law'', p. 1. [[Routledge]]. {{ISBN|041574962X}}.</ref> Al-Nawawi, along with [[Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i]], are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the [[Shafi'i]] school as the Two Shaykhs (''al-Shaykhayn'').<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Chibli Mallat]]|title=The Normalization of Saudi Law|date=2022|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=9780190092757|page=79}}</ref>

==Early life==

He was born at [[Nawa (Syria)|Nawa]] near [[Damascus]], [[Syria]].<ref name="Ludwig 2009"/> As with [[Arabic]] and other [[Semitic languages]], the last part of his name refers to his hometown.

Yasin bin Yusuf Marakashi, says: "I saw Imam Nawawi at Nawa when he was a youth of ten years of age. Other boys of his age used to force him to play with them, but Imam Nawawi would always avoid the play and would remain busy with the recitation of the [[Quran|Noble Qur'an]]. When they tried to domineer and insisted on his joining their games, he bewailed and expressed his no concern over their foolish action. On observing his sagacity and profundity, a special love and affection developed in my heart for young Nawawi. I approached his teacher and urged him to take exceptional care of this lad as he was to become a great religious scholar. His teacher asked whether I was a soothsayer or an astrologer. I told him I am neither soothsayer nor an astrologer but Allah caused me to utter these words." His teacher conveyed this incident to Imam's father and in keeping in view the learning quest of his son, decided to dedicate the life of his son for the service and promotion of the cause of [[Islam]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Collection from Riyad us Saliheen|last=Mubarakpuri|first=Safi Ur Rahman|publisher=Darussalam|pages=5}}</ref>

==Life as a scholar==
He studied in Damascus from the age of 18 and after making the pilgrimage in 1253, he settled there as a private scholar.<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Nawāwī |volume=19 |page=318 |first=Griffithes Wheeler |last=Thatcher}}</ref>

===Notable teachers===
During his stay at Damascus, he studied from more than twenty teachers<ref>{{Cite web|title=Imam An-Nawawi|url=https://dar-us-salam.com/authors/annawawi.htm|website=Dar-Us-Salam Publications|access-date=May 8, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Imam|url=https://40hadithnawawi.com/posts/the-imam/|website=40 Hadithnawaw|access-date=May 8, 2023}}</ref> who were regarded as masters and authority of their subject field and disciplines they taught. An-Nawawi studied Hadith, Islamic Jurisprudence, its principles, syntax and Etymology. 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 bin Mudar Al-Mudari, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin Isa Al-Muradi, Abul-Baqa Khalid bin Yusuf An-Nablusi, Abul-Abbas Ahmad bin Salim Al-Misri, Abu Abdullah Al-Jiyani, Abul-Fath Umar bin Bandar, Abu Muhammad At-Tanukhi, Sharafuddin Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad Al-Ansari, Abul-Faraj Abdur-Rahman bin Muhammad bin Ahmad Al-Maqdisi, and Abul-Fada'il Sallar bin Al-Hasan Al Arbali among others.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url = http://www.40hadithnawawi.com/|title = 40hadithnawawi.com|publisher = 40hadithnawawi.com|access-date = 2014-05-20}}</ref>

== Creed ==
He did [[Esoteric interpretation of the Quran|ta'wil]] on some of the Qur'an verses and ahadith on the attributes of [[Allah]]. He states in his commentary of a hadith that:{{blockquote|
This is one of the "hadiths of the attributes," about which scholars have two positions. The first is to have faith in it without discussing its meaning, while believing of Allah Most High that "there is nothing whatsoever like unto Him" (Qur'an 42:11), and that He is exalted above having any of the attributes of His creatures. The second is to figuratively explain it in a fitting way, scholars who hold this position adducing that the point of the hadith was to test the slave girl: Was she a monotheist, who affirmed that the Creator, the Disposer, the Doer, is Allah alone and that He is the one called upon when a person making supplication (du'a) faces the sky--just as those performing the prayer (salat) face the Kaaba, since the sky is the qibla of those who supplicate, as the Kaaba is the qibla of those who perform the prayer--or was she a worshipper of the idols which they placed in front of themselves? So when she said, In the sky, it was plain that she was not an idol worshiper.<ref>Sahih Muslim bi Sharh al-Nawawi. 18 vols. Cairo 1349/1930. Reprint (18 vols. in 9). Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1401/1981, 5.24</ref>}}

== Relationship with Baybars ==
Al-Nawawi drew the ire of [[Mamluk]] [[Sultan]] [[Baibars|Rukn al-Din Baybars]] twice. Once, at a time when the people of [[Damascus]] sought relief from a heavy tax burden after a years-long drought,<ref>{{cite web |title=Amon our perennial faculty |url=http://www.zaytunacollege.org/about/perennial_faculty/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322025727/http://www.zaytunacollege.org/about/perennial_faculty |archive-date=22 March 2015 |access-date=20 March 2015 |website=Zaytuna College}}</ref> Al-Nawawi wrote that if Baybars did not stop taxing its residents abusively then Allah will tax his misdeed in the [[Akhirah|afterlife]].<ref name=":2">{{Citation |title=Biography of Imam Al-Nawawi by Sheikh Navaid Aziz | date=24 March 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p4P6ZttAcI&list=PLANmApGKw_OoBaN2C0Y983cwJGL47842I&index=1 |language=en |access-date=2022-09-12}}</ref> This prompted Baybars to threaten to expel him from Damascus.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dekmejian|first1=R. Hrair|title=Islam in Revolution: Fundamentalism in the Arab World Contemporary issues in the Middle East|date=1995|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=0815626355|edition=illustrated, reprint, revised|url=https://archive.org/details/islaminrevolutio00dekm|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/islaminrevolutio00dekm/page/n55 38]}}</ref> To this, he responded:<blockquote>"As for myself, threats do not harm me or mean anything to me. They will not keep me from advising the ruler, for I believe that this is obligatory upon me and others."<ref>{{Cite book|title = Commentary on the Forty Hadith of al-Nawawi (2-Volume Set)|last = Zarabozo|first = Jamaal al-Din M.|publisher = Al-Basheer Company|year = 2008|location = Denver|pages = 37}}</ref></blockquote>

Sheikh Navaid Aziz stated a popular tale of when Al-Nawawi addressed Sultan Baybars when the latter wanted the ulama to issue a fatwa that decreed that the [[waqf]] be collected solely for the ruler, despite originally being meant for the people. Al-Nawawi in response scolded him, urging him to fear Allah and rein in his greed, which the Sultan accepted. Some people asked Baybars why he did not imprison Al-Nawawi in retaliation, to which Baybars replied that whenever he thought of locking up Al-Nawawi, a fear flowed through his heart. In both encounters, Baybars abided by Al-Nawawi's counsel.<ref name=":2"/>

==Death and legacy==
Al-Nawawi died on 21 December 1277 AD (5 Rajab 676 AH) at the relatively young age of 45. He was buried the next morning.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Al 'Attar |first=Ibn |url=https://shamela.ws/book/321/39#p1 |title=كتاب تحفة الطالبين في ترجمة الإمام محيي الدين |publisher=Dar al-Athariyya |year=2007 |edition=1 |location=Amman - Jordan |page=216 |language=Arabic |trans-title=Kitab Tuhfat al-Talibin fi Tarjamat al-Imam Muhyi al-Din}}</ref>
[[File:Forty hadith nawawi taught by Sheikh Usama al Azhari in Sultan Hassan Mosque.JPG|thumb|[[Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith]] taught in the [[Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan]] in Cairo, Egypt]]
An-Nawawi's lasting legacy is his contribution to [[hadith|hadith literature]] through his momentous works [[Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith|Forty Hadiths]] and [[Riyadh as-Saaliheen]].<ref>{{cite web|title=40 Hadiths of Imam Nawawi|url=http://40hadithnawawi.com/|website=40HadithNawawi|publisher=Muslim American Society|access-date=20 March 2015}}</ref> This made him respected in all [[madhabs]], despite him being of [[Shafi'i]] jurisprudence.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEM_wSyMg6c|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150108162001/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEM_wSyMg6c|archive-date = 8 January 2015|title = Who Was Imam Al Nawawi (R)|date = 17 June 2014|access-date = 20 March 2015|website = Youtube|url-status = bot: unknown}}</ref> According to [[Al-Dhahabi]], Imam Nawawi's concentration and absorption in academic love gained proverbial fame. He had devoted all his time for learning and scholarship. Other than reading and writing, he spent his time contemplating on the interacted and complex issues and in finding their solutions.<ref name=":2" /> [[Ulama|Ulama's]] praise him for 3 characteristics:

# His level of scholarship. Writing more than 40 pages daily from age 18-45. Studying continuously for 12 hours and then teaching for another 12 hours at age 18-20 in [[Damascus]].<ref name=":2" />
# His [[asceticism]]. Not marrying in fear of faltering his wife's right, lack of love for [[dunya]], constant worshipping of Allah, constant [[Dhikr|zikr]].
# His keenness in enjoining good and forbidding evil.<ref name=":2" /> As done with Sultan al-[[Baibars]].

===Destruction of tomb===
In 2015, during the [[Syrian Civil War]], his tomb was demolished by Syrian [[Rebellion|rebels]] belonging to [[Al Nusra]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Syrian fighters destroy historic Muslim tomb|url = http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/syria-rebels-destroy-13th-century-muslim-tomb-2015189829785527.html|website = Al Jazeera English|date = 8 January 2015|access-date = 10 January 2015}}</ref>

== Works ==
During his life of 45 years<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.islaam.net/40hadeeth/nawawi.html |title=A Short Biography of Imaam an-Nawawi |publisher=Islaam.net |access-date=2014-05-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325201859/http://www.islaam.net/40hadeeth/nawawi.html |archive-date=2012-03-25 }}</ref> he wrote "at least fifty books"<ref>Jamaal al-Din M. Zarabozo, ''Commentary on the Forty Hadith of Al-Nawawi'', Volume 1, Al-Basheer Publication & Translation (1999), p. 33</ref> on Islamic studies and other topics. Some scholar counted pages he written and calculated that he wrote 40+ pages daily from age 18 till his death. Some his writings is still reached vastly as no author has superseded him in those writing. These include:
* ''[[Al Minhaj bi Sharh Sahih Muslim]]'' ({{lang|ar|شرح صحيح مسلم}}), making use of others before him, and is considered one of the best commentaries on Sahih Muslim. It is available online.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hadith.al-islam.com/Display/Hier.asp?Doc=1&n=0 |title=الرئيسة - الحديث - موقع الإسلام |publisher=Hadith.al-islam.com |access-date=2014-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060303111138/http://hadith.al-islam.com/Display/Hier.asp?Doc=1&n=0 |archive-date=2006-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''[[Riyadh as-Saaliheen]]'' ({{lang|ar|رياض الصالحين}}); collection of [[hadith]] on ethics, manners, conduct, popular in the Muslim world.
* ''al-Majmu' sharh al-Muhadhab'' ({{lang|ar|المجموع شرح المهذب}}), is a comprehensive manual of [[Sharia|Islamic law]] according to the [[Shafi'i]] school has been edited with [[French language|French]] translation by [[van den Bergh]], 2 vols., Batavia (1882–1884), and published at [[Cairo]] (1888).<ref name=EB1911/>
* ''Minhaj al-Talibin'' ({{lang|ar|منهاج الطالبين وعمدة المفتين في فقه الإمام الشافعي}}), a classical manual on Islamic Law according to Shafi'i [[fiqh]].<ref name="Ludwig 2009"/>
* ''[[Kitab Tahdhib al-Asma|Tahdhib al-Asma wa'l-Lughat]]'' ({{lang|ar|تهذيب الأسماء}}),  edited as the ''[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict01nawa Biographical Dictionary of Illustrious Men chiefly at the Beginning of Islam]'' (Arabic) by [[F. Wüstenfeld]] (Göttingen, 1842–1847).<ref name=EB1911/>
* ''Taqrib al-Taisir'' ({{lang|ar|التقريب والتيسير لمعرفة سنن البشير النذير}}), an introduction to the study of [[hadith]], it is an extension of [[Ibn al-Salah]]'s [[Muqaddimah ibn al-Salah - Introduction to the Science of Hadith|''Muqaddimah'']], was published at Cairo, 1890, with [[Suyuti]]'s commentary "Tadrib al-Rawi". It has been in part translated into French by [[W. Marçais]] in the ''Journal asiatique'', series ix., vols. 16–18 (1900–1901).<ref name=EB1911/>
* ''al-Arbaʿīn al-Nawawiyya'' ({{lang|ar|الأربعون النووية}}) - '[[Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith|Forty Hadiths]],' collection of forty-two fundamental traditions, frequently published along with numerous commentaries.<ref name=EB1911/>
* ''Ma Tamas ilayhi hajat al-Qari li Saheeh al-Bukhaari'' ({{lang|ar|ما تمس إليه حاجة القاري لصـحيح البـخاري}})
* ''Tahrir al-Tanbih'' ({{lang|ar|تحرير التنبيه}})
* ''Kitab al-Adhkar'' ({{lang|ar|الأذكار المنتخبة من كلام سيد الأبرار}}); collection of supplications of prophet [[Muhammad]].
* ''al-Tibyan fi adab Hamalat al-Quran'' ({{lang|ar|التبيان في آداب حملة القرآن}})
* ''Adab al-fatwa wa al-Mufti wa al-Mustafti'' ({{lang|ar|آداب الفتوى والمفتي والمستفتي}})
* ''al-Tarkhis fi al-Qiyam'' ({{lang|ar|الترخيص بالقيام لذوي الفضل والمزية من أهل الإسلام}})
* ''Manasik'' ({{lang|ar|متن الإيضاح في المناسك}}) on [[Hajj]] rituals.
* ''al-Hatt ala al-Mantiq'' ({{lang|ar|الحت على المنطق}}) - 'The Insistence upon Logic,' written to address epistemological and historical criticisms of logic<ref>Ali, Mufti. "METODE AL-SUYUTI MERINGKAS AL-RADD ‘ALA'L-MANTIQIYYIN KARYA IBN TAYMIYYA." Al Qalam 22.3 (2005): 397.</ref>
* ''Sharh [[Sunan Abi Da'ud|Sunan Abu Dawood]]''
* ''Sharh [[Sahih Bukhari|Sahih al-Bukhari]]''
* ''Mukhtasar [[Sunan al-Tirmidhi|at-Tirmidhi]]''
* ''Tabaqat ash-Shafi'iyah''
* ''Rawdhat al-Talibeen''
* ''Bustan al-`arifin''
* ''Al-Maqasid''<ref>{{cite book |title=Manual Islam. Nawawis Al Maqasid|id={{ASIN|1590080114|country=uk}} }}</ref>

==Recent English language editions==
* ''Bustan al-ʿarifin'' (The Garden of Gnostics), Translated by Aisha Bewley

===Minhaj al-Talibin===
*''Minhaj et talibin: A Manual of Muhammadan Law; According To The School of Shafi'', Law Publishing Co (1977) ASIN B0006D2W9I
*''Minhaj et talibin: A Manual of Muhammadan Law; According To The School of Shafi'', Navrang (1992) {{ISBN|81-7013-097-2}}
*''Minhaj Et Talibin: A Manual of Muhammadan Law'', Adam Publishers (2005) {{ISBN|81-7435-249-X}}

===The Forty Hadith===
{{Wikisource|Al-Nawawi's Forty 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 Forty Hadiths''; Translated by Arabic Virtual Translation Center; (2011) {{ISBN|1-4565-8325-5}}
*''The Compendium of Knowledge 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 edition (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 Imam Nawawi with Commentary'', Darul Ishaat
*''Commentary on 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 the righteous: Riyadh as-Salihin of Imam Nawawi'', Rowman and Littlefield (1975) {{ISBN|0-87471-650-0}}
*''Riyad-us-Salihin: Garden 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==

*[[Forty hadith]]
*[[Islamic scholars]]
*[[Shafi'i|Imam Shafi'i]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{wikisourcelang|ar|مؤلف:النووي|al-Nawawi}}
* [http://www.muslimscholars.info/manage.php?submit=scholar&ID=70001 Biodata at MuslimScholars.info]
* [http://www.haqislam.org/imam-al-nawawi/ A short bio on Imam Nawawi]
* [http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/hadeeth/hadithnawawi.html An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths]
* [http://www.imamnawawi.com Imam Nawawi]

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