Al-Nawawi

Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar (1233–1277)

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Lived 1233–1278, aged 45
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    1233–1278
    Aged 45
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Updated 2026-08-18

A 13th-century Syrian jurist who died at 45 but left behind a shelf of Islamic scholarship that still anchors daily practice: hadith commentary, a manual of righteous conduct, and legal texts that made him one of the Shafi'i school's twin pillars.

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Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi was born in October 1233 and spent his brief adult life writing. He produced lengthy works across hadith, theology, biography, and jurisprudence — output that would seem impossible for someone who died at 45 on 21 December 1277. Two texts secured his lasting authority: The Meadows of the Righteous, a collection still used for moral instruction, and Sharh Sahih Muslim, his commentary on one of Islam's canonical hadith compilations. The Shafi'i school of law paired him with Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i as "the Two Shaykhs," the twin jurists of the earlier classical age. Cent…

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