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Occupation
  
Islamic scholar

Name
  
Sayyida Nafisa

Religion
  
Islam

Died
  
Cairo, Egypt


Denomination
  
Sunni

Region
  
Egypt

Jurisprudence
  
Ja'fari

Main interests
  
Hadith

Sayyida Nafisa

Born
  
762 AD, 145 AH.
Makkah, Arabia

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Sayyidah Nafisah bint Al-Hasan (Arabic: الـسـيـدة نـفـيـسـة بـنـت الـحـسـن‎‎) was a woman of the Bayt (Arabic: بـيـت‎‎, Household) of the Islamic Nabi (Arabic: نَـبِي‎‎, Prophet) Muhammad, and a scholar and teacher of Islam.

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Biography

She was born in Mecca in 762 CE, to Al-Hasan al-Anwar, the son of Zayd al-Ablaj, son of Al-Hasan the grandson of Muhammad. She spent her later life in Cairo, where there is a mosque bearing her name.

Marriage and career

She married Is-haq al-Mutamin, son of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, himself a descendant of Muhammad. She emigrated with him from Al-Hijaz to Egypt. She had two children, a son named 'Qasim' and a daughter named 'Umm Kulthum'.

Her students traveled from faraway places and among them was Idris al-Shafi‘i, the man behind the Shafi‘i school of Sunni fiqh. She financially sponsored his education for him.

Legacy

Her piety was of such renown that people came from far and near to seek her blessings; hagiographers recount her decision to leave Egypt due to the throngs that came to seek the blessings of Ahl al-Bayt, leaving little time for prayer. The governor of Egypt and the please of the people for her not to leave Egypt convinced her to stay. Numerous accounts are given of the miracles she performed for those who sought her aid directly or through prayer, such as curing a blind child, intervening when the Nile did not rise one year as expected, preventing a ship from sinking, helping a poor woman who spent her life spinning wool to support her family, freeing a prisoner through her intercession and seeing people through their difficulties.

Sayyidah Nafisah, Sayyidah Ruqayyah and Sayyidah Zaynab bint ‘Ali are traditionally considered the patron saints of the madinah (Arabic: مـديـنـة‎‎, city) of Cairo.

References

Sayyida Nafisa Wikipedia


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