Death of Imam al-Nawawi at Nawa, 676/1277

وفاة الإمام النووي بنوى، ٦٧٦هـ/١٢٧٧م

22 December 1277 CE · 24 Rajab 676 AH

Nawa

Al-Nawawi died unmarried in his father's house at Nawa. Shadharat al-Dhahab gives the night of Wednesday 14 Rajab 676, while Ibn Kathir and the Encyclopaedia of Islam fix it at 24 Rajab, 22 December 1277; he was buried in his home town, where his tomb is still honoured. Before his death he had travelled home and visited Jerusalem and Hebron, then returned and fell ill at his parents' house 1 2 3.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Levant & Iraq

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Nawa

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Al-Nawawi died unmarried in his father's house at Nawa. Shadharat al-Dhahab gives the night of Wednesday 14 Rajab 676, while Ibn Kathir and the Encyclopaedia of Islam fix it at 24 Rajab, 22 December 1277; he was buried in his home town, where his tomb is still honoured. Before his death he had travelled home and visited Jerusalem and Hebron, then returned and fell ill at his parents' house 1 2 3." ur: "نووی کبھی شادی نہیں کی اور اپنے والد کے گھر نوى میں فوت ہوئے۔ شذرات الذہب نے بدھ کی رات 14 رجب 676ھ دی ہے، جبکہ ابن کثیر اور دائرۃ المعارف نے 24 رجب، بمطابق 22 دسمبر 1277ء، ضبط کیا؛ وہ اپنے گاؤں میں دفن ہوئے اور ان کا مزار آج بھی وہاں معزز ہے۔ وفات سے پہلے وہ اپنے گاؤں گئے، بیت المقدس اور خلیل کی زیارت کی، پھر لوٹ کر والدین کے ہاں بیمار ہوئے 1 2 3۔

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Imam al-Nawawi
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Nawa
During the reign of
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi

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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· Birth of Imam al-Nawawi at Nawa, 631/1233· Imam al-Nawawi· Nawa· Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1096
  2. al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir , p. 294
  3. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 356
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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.