Sayyida Nafisa

As- Saiyida Nafisa (Arabic السيدة نفيسة; * 760 in Mecca, † January 825 in Fustat ) is a revered especially in Egypt folk saints of Islam ( folk Islam).

Descent

Nafisa was born according to tradition, from both paternal and maternal from the Prophet Mohammed. Her mother, Bibi Sakina, was a daughter of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet, her father, al -Hasan al - Anwar, a grandson of Hasan ibn Ali 's brother.

Life and Legend

Nafisa was born on the birthday of Muhammad in the year 145 Muslim, 760 Christian era in Mecca. At five years old she came with her father to Medina. Even as a child she began to study the Koran and Islamic law. She lived an ascetic and fasted every day, except for two holidays a year. Only every third night, she should have taken food.

At age 16, she married her cousin Ishaq al - Mu'tamin. They had two children, a son named al - Qassim and a daughter who they named Umm Kulthum.

Your entire life is entwined with legends; so it should be pilgrimage to Mecca thirty times, mostly on foot, and also the grave of Abraham have visited. He was her erschiennen in a vision and have exhorted them to take better care of their health and to keep in prayer degree.

At the age of 44 years, Nafisa went to Cairo. Many Egyptians came to receive her blessing. She taught students in law and interpretation of the Koran, including the famous Imam ash- Shafi ʿ ī. If he was sick, he sent a messenger to her and their intercession made ​​him, faith, healthy. Among her pupils were the scholars Imam Uthman ibn Sa ʿ id al - Misri, Dhu n -Nun, Masri al - Samarkandi, Imam Abu Bakr al - Adfawi and Abu l -Hasan ibn Ali ibn Ibrahim.

She asked her husband to come with the children to Cairo. When she felt her end approaching, she dug a grave cave in her house, where she lived last sitting. Here she was buried and the Egyptians mourned for them. About 150 miracle legends reported by her. Famous is its cure of a sick Jewish girl. As in a year failed to the Nile flood, she handed her veil that he might be thrown into the Nile, which began to rise thereafter. Most recently she is said to have 199 times reciting the Koran and eventually be "mercy" died in the word. Your grave Mosque ( qubba ) located in Cairo at the northwestern edge of the North cemetery al - Qarafa.