The Gardens of the Gnostics: Bustān al-'Ārifīn - Yaḥyā Abū An-nawawī
Abū Zakariyyā Muḥyi'd-dīn Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf an-Nawawī (631 AH/1233 CE - 676 AH/1277 CE) was an exemplary scholar of the hadith, Ash'arī kalām and the Shāfi'ī madhhab, noted for his commentary on Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim , his collection of Forty Hadith, the Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn , the Adhkār, which is a collection of dhikr and du'ā from the Qur'ān and the hadith, and a number of other significant works. The Garden of the Gnostics (Bustān al-'Ārifīn) is Imam an-Nawawī's work on taṣawwuf , drawing as is his wont on the Qur'ān, with careful choice of hadith, and the sayings of the first generations ( salaf ) and eminent later people. Aisha Bewley is the translator of a large number of classical works of Islam and Sufism, often in collaboration with Abdalhaqq Bewley, notably The Noble Qur'an - a New Rendering of Its Meanings in English ; Muhammad, Messenger of Allah - the translation of Qāḍī 'Iyāḍ's ash-Shifā' ; the Muwaṭṭa' of Imam Mālik ibn Anas; and Imam an-Nawawī's Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn .
