Biography of Imam al-Nawawiy and His Writing of al-Majmuo’ Treatise

Abstract

This article aims 1) to study the biography and al-Majmuo’ treatise of Imam al-Nawawiy. The study is documentary collecting data from his works and other relivant documents and researches, and using deductive and inductive analytical methods. The study resulted in finding that 1) Imam al-Nawawiy was a great simple and humble Muslim scholar, highly learned in many disciplines, specialized in Islamic Legal consideration, and able to author several well-recognized masterpieces of Islamic law treatise. He was, thus called ‘Shaikh al-Mudhab’ or ‘Shaikh al-Islam’. He adopted a new and more advanced methodology of writing differently from other common methods al-Shafie and other schools of thought at the time, explained all subjectmatters by substantiating with textual and logical authorities, along with using tools in concormity with the issues in question through the process of Istidlal, Istimbat, and Istikhraj which indicated the insight of Imam al-Nawawiy who had produced many works at well- recognized standart level.