al-Nawawi (Abu Zakariyya Yahiya Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi) أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي (born 1233 - 1278), Muslim author on Fiqh and Hadith, was born at Nawa near Damascus.

In the latter city he studied from his eighteenth year, and there, after making the pilgrimage in 1253, he settled as a private scholar until 1267, when he succeeded Abu Shama as professor of hadith at the Ashrafiyya school. He died at Nawa at a relatively young age, from overwork, having never married.

Works

• al-Majmou' sharh al-Muhathab المجموع شرح المهذب is a comprehensive manual of Islamic law according to the Shafi'ite school has been edited with French translation by van den Bergh, 2 vols., Batavia (1882-1884), and published at Cairo (1888).

• Minhaj al-Talibin منهاج الطالبين وعمدة المفتين في فقه الإمام الشافعي another Shafii fiqh work

• Tahdhib al-Asma' تهذيب الأسماء has been edited as the Biographical Dictionary of Illustrious Men chiefly at the Beginning of Islam by F Wüstenfeld (Göttingen, 1842-1847).

• Taqrib al-Taisir التقريب والتيسير لمعرفة سنن البشير النذير, an introduction to the study of hadith, was published at Cairo, 1890, with Suyuti's commentary. It has been in part translated into French by M. Marcais in the Journal asiatique, series ix., vols. 16-18 (1900-1901).

• Forty Hadiths الأربعين النووية collection of the forty (actually forty-two ) chief traditions has been frequently published with commentaries in Cairo. For other works see C Brockelmann's Gesch. der arabischen Litteratur, vol. i. (Weimar, 1898), pp. 395-397.

• Commentary on the Sahih of Muslim b. al-Hajjaj شرح صحيح مسلم, making use of others before him, and is considered one of the best commentaries on that book. It is available online [1] (http://hadith.al-islam.com/Display/Hier.asp?Doc=1&n=0).

• Ma Tamas ilayhi hajat al-Qari ما تمس إليه حاجة القاري لصـحيح البـخاري

• Riyadh al-Salihin رياض الصالحين is a collection of hadith on ethics, manners, conduct, and is still quite popular in the Muslim world today.

• Tahrir al-Tanbih تحرير التنبيه

• al-Athkar الأذكار المنتخبة من كلام سيد الأبرار is a collection of supplications of prophet Muhammad.

• al-Tibyan fi adab Hamalat al-Quran التبيان في آداب حملة القرآن

• Adab al-fatwa wa al-Mufti wa al-Mustafti آداب الفتوى والمفتي والمستفتي

• al-Tarkhis fi al-Qiyam الترخيص بالقيام لذوي الفضل والمزية من أهل الإسلام

• Manasik متن الإيضاح في المناسك on Hajj rituals.

Reference

• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.