About Imām Al-Nawawī He is the Imām and Ḥāfiẓ, the Shaykh and Imām, Muḥyiddīn Abū-Zakariyyā Yaḥyā bin-Sharaf al-Nawawī, affiliated to Nawā a village on the outskirts of Damascus in Syria.  He then settled in Damascus, and he was Shāfiʿī.  He was the Shaykh of the madhāhib and the senior among the fuqahā of his time. … Continue reading Ibn-ʿAllan’s Commentary Dalilul-Falihin: The Book of Fasting With A Short Biography of Imam Al-Nawawi