Al-Nawawi

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Islamic scholar Shafi'i jurist Sunni scholar hadith scholar jurist

Al-Nawawi was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and jurist renowned for his works in hadith, jurisprudence, and ethics, including "Riyadh al-Salihin" and "Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyya."

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Al-Nawawi canonical	4
al-Nawawi	2
Imam al-Nawawi	1
Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic scholar ⓘ Shafi'i jurist ⓘ Sunni scholar ⓘ hadith scholar ⓘ jurist ⓘ
birthCountryHistorical	Syria ⓘ surface form: Syria (Bilad al-Sham)
birthPlace	Nawa ⓘ
birthRegion	Hauran ⓘ
birthYear	1233 ⓘ
birthYearHijri	631 AH ⓘ
century	13th century ⓘ
deathPlace	Nawa ⓘ
deathYear	1277 ⓘ
deathYearHijri	676 AH ⓘ
denomination	Sunni Islam ⓘ
ethnicity	Arabs ⓘ surface form: Arab
fieldOfWork	Islamic ethics ⓘ Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) ⓘ hadith studies ⓘ theology ⓘ
fullName	Al-Nawawi self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi
genre	commentary (sharh) ⓘ devotional literature ⓘ fiqh manual ⓘ hadith collection ⓘ
givenName	Yahya ⓘ
honorificTitle	Al-Nawawi self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Imam al-Nawawi Muhyiddin ⓘ
influenced	Islamic ethics literature ⓘ Sunni hadith scholarship ⓘ later Shafi'i jurists ⓘ
knownFor	authoritative Shafi'i legal manuals ⓘ compilation of hadith collections ⓘ concise legal summaries ⓘ ethical and spiritual guidance works ⓘ
language	Arabic ⓘ
madhhab	Shafi'i school ⓘ surface form: Shafi'i
movement	Shafi'i school ⓘ surface form: Shafi'i school of law
notableWork	Dhikr ⓘ surface form: Al-Adhkar Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyya ⓘ Al-Majmu' Sharh al-Muhadhdhab ⓘ Al-Minhaj bi Sharh Sahih Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj ⓘ Rawdat al-Talibin ⓘ Riyadh al-Salihin ⓘ
patronymic	ibn Sharaf ⓘ
religion	Islam ⓘ
residence	Damascus ⓘ
schoolTradition	Ash'ari ⓘ surface form: Ash'ari theology
taughtAt	Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya ⓘ Great Mosque of Damascus ⓘ surface form: Umayyad Mosque of Damascus

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Al-Nawawi
Description of subject: Al-Nawawi was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and jurist renowned for his works in hadith, jurisprudence, and ethics, including "Riyadh al-Salihin" and "Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyya."

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shafi'i school → hasNotableScholar → Al-Nawawi ⓘ

Sahih Muslim → hasCommentariesBy → Al-Nawawi ⓘ

this entity surface form: al-Nawawi

Al-Nawawi → fullName → Al-Nawawi self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi

Al-Nawawi → honorificTitle → Al-Nawawi self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Imam al-Nawawi

Shaykh al-Islam → hasNotableBearer → Al-Nawawi ⓘ

Arbaʿin collections → compiler → Al-Nawawi ⓘ

subject surface form: Al-Arbaʿin al-Nawawiyya

Arbaʿin collections → hasNotableCompiler → Al-Nawawi ⓘ

Ibn al-Salah → influenced → Al-Nawawi ⓘ

this entity surface form: al-Nawawi