He states in his commentary of a hadith that: This is one of the 'hadiths of the attributes,' about which scholars have two positions. In line with this school, he did not interpret the mutashabihat, or 'unapparent in meaning' verses and hadiths in a literal anthropomorphic way. He authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence.
1234–1277), was an influential Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar. Yahyah Ibn Sharaf ibn Marri ibn Hassan ibn Hussain ibn Muhammad ibn Juma ibn Hazm Abu Zakaria al-Nawawī Abu Zakaria Yahya Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (: أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي 1233–1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī (631–676 A.H.
