HIDDEN GEMS

Sayyidah Nafeesah رضي الله عنها

NAME – Nafeesah daughter of Hasan son of Zaid son of Hasan son of Ali رضي الله عنهم

APPELLATION

Sayyidah (noble lady)

Mukarramah (the revered)

Saalihah (the virtous)

DATE OF BIRTH – 145 A.H.

PLACE OF BIRTH – Makkah (Saudi Arabia)

AREA OF SERVICE – Hijaaz (Saudi Arabia), Egypt (Africa)

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY –Sayyidah Nafeesah was from the Ahle Bait of the Beloved Nabi صلي الله عليه و آله و سلم and she was celebrated amongst Aimma and Mashaaikh for her Taqwa (piety) and Ilm (knowledge).

Her father was the grandson of Imaam Hasan رضي الله عنه and he was appointed as the governor of Madina by the king of the time, Mansoor. After serving for five years, he was deposed and imprisoned but when Mahdi became the ruler, he released him from imprisonment and honoured him. He passed away in a place called Haajir at the age of 85 years old in 168 A.H.

After the passing of her father, Sayyidah Nafeesah moved to Egypt with her husband Shareef Ishaaq رضي الله عنهما. Her husband who was the son of Imaam Ja’far Saadiq رضي الله عنه passed away in the year 208 A.H. in the month of Ramadhaan.

While in Egypt, being a senior member of the Ahle Bait, throngs of scholars and Mashaaikh would frequent her Duroos (teaching) and to attain her spiritual blessings. The most notable of the Mashaaikh who did so was the eminent Faqih and Imaam, Hazrat Imaam Shaf’ee رضي الله عنه.

There are several documented as well as oral anecdotes of Imaam Shaf’ee’s respect and honour for her. One such is that Imaam Shaf’ee made a bequest that his Janaazah be brought before Sayyidah Nafeesah and she prays over it also رضي الله عنهما.

DEMISE – 208 A.H.

LOCATION OF HIS BLESSED GRAVE – Cairo, Egypt

When she passed away, her husband wished to bury her in Madinah but the people of Cairo persuaded him not to rob them of the Barakah of her blessed grave.

Imaam Zahabi رضي الله عنه writes,

والدعاء مستجاب عند قبرها

‘Dua made near her blessed grave is oftenly accepted.’

Allah جل جلاله bless us all through the pious means of Sayyidah Nafeesah رضي اللہ عنها.

Extracted from –Al Bidaayah wan Nihaayah by Allamah Ibn Katheer عليه الرحمة

Siyaaru A’laamin Nubalaa by Allamah Zahabi عليه الرحمة