Death of Imam al-Nawawi in Nawa

Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi died in Nawa, in southern Syria, in December 1277, at about the age of forty-four. He was a Shafi'i jurist who taught at the Ashrafiyya and Rawahiyya madrasas in Damascus. His collection of forty hadith, known as the Forty Hadith, is widely memorized and taught. He also wrote commentaries on Sahih Muslim and on the Shafi'i legal manual.