Al-Nawawi takes over the al-Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith in Damascus, 665/1267

النووي يتولى مشيخة دار الحديث الأشرفية بدمشق، ٦٦٥هـ/١٢٦٧م

c. 1267 CE · 665 AH

Damascus

In 665/1267 al-Nawawi was appointed head of the al-Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith in Damascus in succession to Shihab al-Din Abu Shama, who had just died. He took nothing from its stipend, living on the little his father sent him from Nawa 1 2 3.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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1250126012701280 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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In 665/1267 al-Nawawi was appointed head of the al-Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith in Damascus in succession to Shihab al-Din Abu Shama, who had just died. He took nothing from its stipend, living on the little his father sent him from Nawa 1 2 3." ur: "665ھ/1267ء میں نووی کو دمشق کی دار الحدیث اشرفیہ کی مشیخت سونپی گئی، جو ابھی فوت ہوئے شہاب الدین ابو شامہ کے جانشین تھے۔ انہوں نے اس کے وظیفے سے کچھ نہیں لیا اور والد کی طرف سے نوى سے آنے والے قلیل سامان پر گزارہ کیا 1 2 3۔

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Had participant
Imam al-Nawawi· Abu Shama al-Dimashqi
Occurred at
Damascus

People and things also explored

Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi begins writing, c. 655/1257· Al-Nawawi arrives in Damascus and lodges at the Rawahiyya madrasa, 649/1251· Al-Nawawi finishes the Minhaj and the Rawda, 669/1270-71· Al-Nawawi completes al-Tahrir fi alfaz al-Tanbih, 671/1272-73· Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi· Abu Shama al-Dimashqi· Damascus

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1096
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 355-356
  3. al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir , p. 294
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Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277

Al-Nawawi's standing with the people emboldened him to petition the Mamluk sultan Baybars to lift the war taxes imposed on the people of Syria and to protect the madrasa teachers from a cut in their stipends. When the petition failed and a fatwa approving the exactions was put before the jurists, al-Nawawi alone refused to sign, and Baybars expelled him from Damascus to Nawa.