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in the Qur'an, Hadith, History 
Al-Nawawi, Muhyi al-Din Yahya b. Sharaf al-Din b. Hasan, Abu Zakariyya al-Shafi`i
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[Glossary of Islamic Terms, Aisha Abdurrahman al-Tarjumanah Bewley, London: Ta-Ha Publishers, 1418/1998, pp. 109-110 ] Yahya ibn Sharaf, Abu Zakariyya, born in the village of Nawa on the Horan Plain of southern Syria in 631/1233. He was the Imam of the later Shafi`ites and wrote many books: Minhaj al-Talibin, Kitab al-Adhkar, Riyad al-Salihin and other books. He lived very simply. After twenty-seven years in Damascus, he returned home and died at the age of 44 in 676/1277. [Tabaqat al-Huffaz, al-Suyuti, Jalal al-Din `Abd al-Rahman b. Kamal al-Din Abi Bakr, al-Shafi`i, Cairo (?): Maktabah Wahbah, , p. 510 (or check index) ] Yahya ibn Sharaf, Abu Zakariyya, born in the village of Nawa on the Horan Plain of southern Syria in 631/1233. He was the Imam of the later Shafi`ites and wrote many books: Minhaj al-Talibin, Kitab al-Adhkar, Riyad al-Salihin and other books. He lived very simply. After twenty-seven years in Damascus, he returned home and died at the age of 44 in 676/1277. [al-Ghadir fi al-kitab wa'l-sunnah wa'l-adab, al-Amini, `Abd al-Husayn Ahmad al-Tabrizi al-Najafi, Beirut: Mu'assasat al-A`lami (11 vols), 1414 AH/1994 CE, vol. 1, p. 157 ] Yahya ibn Sharaf, Abu Zakariyya, born in the village of Nawa on the Horan Plain of southern Syria in 631/1233. He was the Imam of the later Shafi`ites and wrote many books: Minhaj al-Talibin, Kitab al-Adhkar, Riyad al-Salihin and other books. He lived very simply. After twenty-seven years in Damascus, he returned home and died at the age of 44 in 676/1277. The Ahlul Bayt DILP team does not necessarily agree with all of the statements and opinions expressed by the authors of these texts regarding their subjects. These are presented for the purposes of private research only. Presented by the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project team |
