Al-Nawawi begins writing, c. 655/1257

النووي يشرع في التصنيف، نحو ٦٥٥هـ/١٢٥٧م

c. 1257 CE · c. 655 AH

Damascus

Around 655/1257 al-Nawawi began composing books, after nearly twenty years of day-and-night study had carried him past all his peers; al-Dhahabi places the start of his writing 'about 660' and says he wrote until his death. Among his earliest works were al-Tahrir fi alfaz al-Tanbih and al-Umda fi tashih al-Tanbih 1 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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1240125012601270 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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Around 655/1257 al-Nawawi began composing books, after nearly twenty years of day-and-night study had carried him past all his peers; al-Dhahabi places the start of his writing 'about 660' and says he wrote until his death. Among his earliest works were al-Tahrir fi alfaz al-Tanbih and al-Umda fi tashih al-Tanbih 1 2." ur: "تقریباً 655ھ/1257ء میں نووی نے تصنیف شروع کی، جب قریب بیس سال دن رات محنتِ علم کے بعد وہ اپنے ہم عصروں پر فائق ہو چکے تھے؛ ذہبی کے مطابق تصنیف کا آغاز تقریباً 660ھ سے ہوا اور وہ وفات تک لکھتے رہے۔ ان کی ابتدائی تصانیف میں تحریر الفاظ التنبیہ اور العمدہ فی تصحیح التنبیہ شامل ہیں 1 2۔

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Had participant
Imam al-Nawawi
Occurred at
Damascus
During the reign of
al-Musta'sim bi'llah Abdullah ibn al-Mustansir, last caliph of Baghdad

People and things also explored

Al-Nawawi arrives in Damascus and lodges at the Rawahiyya madrasa, 649/1251· Al-Nawawi takes over the al-Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith in Damascus, 665/1267· Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi finishes the Minhaj and the Rawda, 669/1270-71· Al-Nawawi completes al-Tahrir fi alfaz al-Tanbih, 671/1272-73· Death of Ibn al-Salah at Damascus and burial in the Sufi cemetery, 25 Rabi' II 643/Sept. 1245· Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)

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
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Al-Nawawi arrives in Damascus and lodges at the Rawahiyya madrasa, 649/1251

In 649/1251, past the age of nineteen, al-Nawawi's father brought him to Damascus, where he lodged at the al-Rawahiyya madrasa. He began with medicine but soon turned to the religious sciences, reading twelve lessons a day with the shaykhs; in his own words he spent about two years without laying his side on the ground, living on the madrasa's allowance.