Al-Athkaar :The Invocations

  Al-Athkaar (The Invocations) Al-Nawawiyyah,
*Hardback - 503 pages, [ English ].
Compiled by Imam an-Nawawi 'alayhir ar-rahman.


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Al- Athkaar - The Invocations,| Compiled by The Jurist, the traditionist Imam Muhy' ad-Din Abi Zakariya Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi al-Dimashqi.

A New Revised Edition by Dar al-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon. Rendered to English by Sulayman Al-Shaykh Muhammad, Revised by F Amira Zrein Matraji.


This is a English Only publication. It is a major compendium of some 1227 hadiths on prayers and dhikrs of the Prophetic Sunnah.


About Imam al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277) Imam Muhy ad-Din Abi Zakariya Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi al-Dimashqi, May Allah be pleased with him, known simply as Imam Nawawi was born in the village of Nawa in Southern Syria. Imam Nawawi spent most of his life in Damascus where he lived in a simple manner, devoted to Allah, engaging single-mindedly in worship, study, writing and teaching various Islamic sciences.

Although best known for his works in hadith, Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277) was also the Imam of the later Shafi'i school of Jurisprudence, and widely acknowledged as the intellectual heir to Imam Shafi'i, May Allah be pleased with him. He was a renowned scholar and jurist who dedicated his life to the pursuit of Islamic learning. Imam Nawawi died at the young age of 44 years, leaving behind him numerous works of great importance.

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* _{Not the best of print or translation, but currently the only one available.}