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color: #000000;"><div class="fn">Nafīsah bint Al-Ḥasan</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><div class="nickname" lang="ar">نَفِيْسَة بِنْت ٱلْحَسَن</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Masjid_having_Nafisa_Mausoleum_side_by,Cairo_.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Masjid_having_Nafisa_Mausoleum_side_by%2CCairo_.jpg/220px-Masjid_having_Nafisa_Mausoleum_side_by%2CCairo_.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Masjid_having_Nafisa_Mausoleum_side_by%2CCairo_.jpg/330px-Masjid_having_Nafisa_Mausoleum_side_by%2CCairo_.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Masjid_having_Nafisa_Mausoleum_side_by%2CCairo_.jpg/440px-Masjid_having_Nafisa_Mausoleum_side_by%2CCairo_.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Al-Sayeda_Nafeesah_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Sayeda Nafeesah Mosque">Al-Sayeda Nafeesah Mosque</a> having Nafisah's Mausoleum by its side in <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>As-<a href="/wiki/Sayyid" title="Sayyid">Sayyidah</a></i> (<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">ٱلسَّيِّدَة</span></span>) <br /> <i>Aṭ-Ṭāhirah</i> (<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">ٱلطَّاهِرَة</span></span>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #9BE89B; color: #000000;">Personal life</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Nafisah</div><br />762 <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">ACE</a>, 145 <a href="/wiki/Islamic_calendar" title="Islamic calendar">AH</a><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hejaz" title="Hejaz">Hejaz</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">824 <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">CE</a>, 208 <a href="/wiki/Hijri_year" title="Hijri year">AH</a><br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Cairo, Egypt</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data">Cairo</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">Caliphate</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Is-ḥāq al-Muʾtamin</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Qāsim (son) <br /> Umm Kulthūm (daughter)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Al-Ḥasan al-Anwar ibn Zayd al-Ablaj ibn <a href="/wiki/Hasan_ibn_Ali" title="Hasan ibn Ali">Al-Hasan</a> ibn <a href="/wiki/Ali" title="Ali">ʿAlī</a> ibn <a href="/wiki/Abu_Talib_ibn_Abd_al-Muttalib" title="Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib">Abī Ṭālib</a> (father)</li><li>Zaynab bint <a href="/wiki/Hasan_ibn_Hasan" title="Hasan ibn Hasan">Al-Hasan ibn Al-Hasan</a> ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (mother)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Era</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid era</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data">Egypt, <a href="/wiki/Northeast_Africa" title="Northeast Africa">Northeast Africa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Islamic_scholar" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic scholar">Islamic scholar</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #9BE89B; color: #000000;">Religious life</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Lineage</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Banu_Hashim" title="Banu Hashim">Banu Hashim</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #9BE89B; color: #000000;">Muslim leader</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left; border:none; padding:0;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Influenced by</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0; text-align:center;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Imam" title="Imam">Imam</a> <a href="/wiki/Ja%27far_al-Sadiq" title="Ja'far al-Sadiq">Ja'far al-Sadiq</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left; border:none; padding:0;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Influenced</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0; text-align:center;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Imam" title="Imam">Imam</a> <a href="/wiki/Al-Shafi%E2%80%98i" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Shafi‘i">Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sayyida Nafisa</b> (d. 208 <a href="/wiki/Hijri_year" title="Hijri year">AH</a> / 830 <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">CE</a>), the full name <i>As-Sayyidah Nafīsah <a href="/wiki/Patronymic#Arabic" title="Patronymic">bint</a> Amīr al-Muʾminīn Al-Ḥasan al-Anwar ibn Zayd al-Ablaj ibn <a href="/wiki/Hasan_ibn_Ali" title="Hasan ibn Ali">Al-Hasan</a> ibn <a href="/wiki/Ali" title="Ali">ʿAlī</a> ibn <a href="/wiki/Abu_Talib_ibn_Abd_al-Muttalib" title="Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib">Abī Ṭālib</a> al-ʿAlawiyyah al-Ḥasaniyyah</i> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">ٱلسَّيِّدَة نَفِيْسَة بِنْت أَمِيْر ٱلْمُؤْمِنِيْن ٱلْحَسَن ابْن زَيْد ٱلْأَبْلَج ابْن ٱلْحَسَن ابْن عَلِي ابْن أَبِي طَالِب ٱلْعَلَوِيَّة ٱلْحَسَنِيَّة</span>), was a <a href="/wiki/Family_tree_of_Muhammad" title="Family tree of Muhammad">female descendant</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam" title="Prophets and messengers in Islam">Islamic prophet</a> <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_in_Islam" title="Muhammad in Islam">Muhammad</a>, and a scholar and teacher of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>. Having taught <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Imam" title="Imam">Imam</a> <a href="/wiki/Al-Shafi%E2%80%98i" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Shafi‘i">Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi'i</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-sunnah_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunnah-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> she is the best known female scholar of <i><a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">hadith</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IbnKathir_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IbnKathir-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sayyida_Nafisa&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She was born in Mecca around 762 A.D, the daughter of Al-Hasan al-Anwar, the son of Zayd al-Ablaj, the son of <a href="/wiki/Hasan_ibn_Ali" title="Hasan ibn Ali">Al-Hasan</a>, the grandson of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a>. She spent her later life in <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, where there is a <a href="/wiki/Al-Sayyida_Nafisa_Mosque" title="Al-Sayyida Nafisa Mosque">mosque</a> that bears her name.<sup id="cite_ref-sunnah_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunnah-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriage_and_career">Marriage and career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sayyida_Nafisa&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marriage and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She married Is-ḥāq al-Muʾtamin (<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">إِسْحَاق ٱلْمُؤْتَمِن</span></span>), son of <a href="/wiki/Ja%27far_al-Sadiq" title="Ja'far al-Sadiq">Ja'far al-Sadiq</a>, himself a descendant of Muhammad. She emigrated with him from the <a href="/wiki/Hejaz" title="Hejaz">Hejaz</a> to Egypt. She had two children, a son named 'Qāsim' and a daughter named 'Umm Kulthūm'.<sup id="cite_ref-KassamBlomfield_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KassamBlomfield-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her students came from faraway places, and among them was Al-Shafi'i, the man behind the <a href="/wiki/Shafi%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi'i">Shafi'i</a> school of Sunni <a href="/wiki/Fiqh" title="Fiqh">fiqh</a>. She financially sponsored his education for him.<sup id="cite_ref-Alia2015_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alia2015-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Kathir" title="Ibn Kathir">Ibn Kathir</a> in <i>al-Bidayah wa al-nihayah</i> reports about her the following statement: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>She was a wealthy lady, did a lot of favors to the people, especially those paralyzed, those with severe illness, and to all other ill people. She was devout, ascetic, and of abundant virtue. When Imam al-Shafi'i arrived in Egypt, she did good to him, and sometimes Shafi'i led her in prayers in <a href="/wiki/Ramadan" title="Ramadan">Ramadan</a>.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Ibn Kathir<sup id="cite_ref-IbnKathir_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IbnKathir-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Influence_on_Imam_al-Shafi'i"><span id="Influence_on_Imam_al-Shafi.27i"></span>Influence on Imam al-Shafi'i</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sayyida_Nafisa&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Influence on Imam al-Shafi'i"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Imam al-Shafi'i was reportedly a student of another great Imam of <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Fiqh" title="Fiqh">Fiqh</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Malik_ibn_Anas" title="Malik ibn Anas">Malik ibn Anas</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Dutton_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dutton-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was a student of Imam Ja'far, like Imam <a href="/wiki/Abu_Hanifah" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu Hanifah">Abu Hanifah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HistoryOfIslam_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HistoryOfIslam-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is said that al-Shafi'i, after coming to Cairo, called upon Nafisa to hear hadiths from her,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that it was not possible that he was without the influence of knowledge and personality of Nafisa, since he had been a frequent guest in her house, a listener of her lectures in her mosque, and as it is reported by the historians, asked for her <a href="/wiki/Dua" title="Dua">invocation (<i>Duʿāʾ</i>)</a> and sought for <a href="/wiki/Barakah" title="Barakah">blessings (<i>Barakāt</i>)</a> from her.<sup id="cite_ref-sunnah_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunnah-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Al-Shafi'i felt sick and afterward felt the approaching death, he immediately wrote the will in which he mentioned that Nafisa was honorably expected to read the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_funeral" title="Islamic funeral">funeral prayer (<i>Ṣalāt al-Janāzah</i>)</a>. After the death of the Imam, his body was carried to her house and she prayed over it. It reportedly could not be "without her popularity, fame, honor, and respect among the people."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ascetic_way_of_life_and_miracles">Ascetic way of life and miracles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sayyida_Nafisa&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ascetic way of life and miracles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It is reported that Nafisa has been living an ascetic way of life. Zainab, her niece, had witnessed that her aunt ate once per three days and kept an empty basket with her, each time she wanted to eat something small, she put her hand inside and found something sent from Allah. Once being moved by the way of life led by Sayyida Nafisa, Zainab asked her aunt: "You must take care of yourself." On that, she replied "How shall I take care of myself before I reach my Lord? Ahead of me are so many barriers which no one can cross except the successful ones (<i>al-<a href="/wiki/Faiz" title="Faiz">fāʾizūn</a></i>, <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">ٱلْفَائِزُوْن</span></span>)."<sup id="cite_ref-sunnah_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunnah-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>More than 150 miracles are attributed to Nafisa throughout her life and after death. After settling down in Cairo, there was a miracle of her curing the paralyzed daughter of a neighboring non-Muslim family. One day, the daughter was left in Nafisa's house when her mother went shopping in the marketplace. When Nafisa did her <a href="/wiki/Wudu" title="Wudu">ablution</a> before <a href="/wiki/Salah" title="Salah">prayer</a>, some drops of water touched the girl and she started to move. When Nafisa was praying, the daughter stood up and ran to the coming mother, who was shaken and overjoyed at the same moment. After that miracle, the whole family and other neighbors accepted Islam.<sup id="cite_ref-Fa_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fa-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After her death, one accident had happened. Some thieves entered her mosque and took sixteen silver lamps. They wanted to escape immediately but failed to find the doors. They were trapped as if they were in a cage. The next morning, they were found and put into prison.<sup id="cite_ref-Fa_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fa-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legacy">Legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sayyida_Nafisa&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Her piety was renowned to the extent 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 <i><a href="/wiki/Ahl_al-Bayt" title="Ahl al-Bayt">Ahl al-Bayt</a></i> ("People of the Household (of Muhammad)"), leaving little time for prayer. However, the pleas of the governor of Egypt, As-Sirri ibn al-Hakam, and 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 <a href="/wiki/Nile" title="Nile">Nile</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Shafa%27ah" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafa'ah">intercession</a>, and seeing people through their difficulties.<sup id="cite_ref-KassamBlomfield_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KassamBlomfield-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sayyid" title="Sayyid">Sayyidah</a> Nafisah, <a href="/wiki/Mashhad_of_Sayyida_Ruqayya" title="Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya">Sayyidah Ruqayyah</a> and Sayyidah <a href="/wiki/Zaynab_bint_Ali" title="Zaynab bint Ali">Zaynab bint Ali</a> are traditionally considered the patron saints of the <i>madīnah</i> (<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">مَدِيْنَة</span></span>, city) of Cairo.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, this was one of the five <a href="/wiki/Mashhad" title="Mashhad">mashhads</a> sponsored for female relatives of the prophet during the Fatimid caliphate. 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