
Yasin bin Yusuf Marakashi, says: "I saw Imam Nawawi at Nawa when he was a youth of ten years of age.

As with Arabic and other Semitic languages, the last part of his name refers to his hometown. He was born at Nawa near Damascus, Syria. He authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence. Ibn Sharaf ibn Marri ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumah ibn ḤazmĪbū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī ( Arabic: أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي () (October 1230–21 December 1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī, was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

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