Sayyidah Nafisah bint Al-Hasan

Nafisah bint Al-Hasan
Masjid having Nafisah's Mausoleum by its side, Cairo, Egypt.
Title	Sayyidah, at-Tahirah
Born	Nafisah 762 ACE, 145 AH Makkah, Al-Hijaz, the Arabian Peninsula, Asia
Died	824 ACE, 208 AH Cairo, Egypt
Resting place	Cairo, Egypt
Other names	Nafisah at-Tahirah (Nafisah the Pure)
Region	Egypt, Africa
Occupation	Islamic scholar
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Creed	Ash'ari
Main interest(s)	Sufism, Ahadith
Influenced by Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq
Influenced Imam Idris al-Shafi‘i

Sayyidah Nafisah bint Al-Hasan (Arabic: الـسـيـدة نـفـيـسـة بـنـت الـحـسـن‎‎) was a woman of the Bayt (Arabic: بـيـت‎‎, Household) of the Islamic Nabi (Arabic: نَـبِي‎‎, Prophet) Muhammad, and a scholar and teacher of Islam.

She was born in Mecca in 762 CE, to Al-Hasan al-Anwar, the son of Zayd al-Ablaj, son of Al-Hasan the grandson of Muhammad. She spent her later life in Cairo, where there is a mosque bearing her name.

She married Is-haq al-Mutamin, son of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, himself a descendant of Muhammad. She emigrated with him from Al-Hijaz to Egypt. She had two children, a son named 'Qasim' and a daughter named 'Umm Kulthum'.

Her students traveled from faraway places and among them was Idris al-Shafi‘i, the man behind the Shafi‘i school of Sunni fiqh. She financially sponsored his education for him.

Her piety was of such renown that people came from far and near to seek her blessings; hagiographers recount her decision to leave Egypt due to the throngs that came to seek the blessings of Ahl al-Bayt, leaving little time for prayer. The governor of Egypt and the please of the people for her not to leave Egypt convinced her to stay. Numerous accounts are given of the miracles she performed for those who sought her aid directly or through prayer, such as curing a blind child, intervening when the Nile did not rise one year as expected, preventing a ship from sinking, helping a poor woman who spent her life spinning wool to support her family, freeing a prisoner through her intercession and seeing people through their difficulties.