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- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Overview
Nafisa bint Abi Muhammad al-Hasan b. Zayd b. al-Hasan b. 'Ali b. Abi Talib, known as al-Sayyida Nafisa; among the righteous, pious women of the Prophet ﷺ's house; she dwelt in Egypt at the site of her shrine on Darb al-Siba' between Cairo and Fustat. 1
Al-Shafi'i with her; her burial
It is related that when Imam al-Shafi'i entered Egypt he attended her and heard hadith on her, and when he died his bier was brought into her house and she prayed over him in her home; her husband the trusted Ishaq b. Ja'far al-Sadiq resolved to carry her to Medina for burial, but the Egyptians begged him to keep her — so she was buried in Egypt, and her grave is famed for answered prayer and is visited. 1
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Sayyida Nafisa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sayyida-nafisa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.