About The Book

Abu Zakariyya Muhyi'd-din Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi (631 AH/1233 CE – 676 AH/1277 CE) was an exemplary scholar of the hadith, Ash'ari kalam and the Shafi'i madhhab, noted for his commentary on Sahih Muslim, his collection of Forty Hadith, the Riyad as-Salihin, the Adhkar, which is a collection of dhikr and du'a from the Qur'an and the hadith, and a number of other significant works.

The Garden of the Gnostics (Bustan al-'Arifin) is Imam an-Nawawi's work on taṣawwuf, drawing as is his wont on the Qur'an, with careful choice of hadith, and the sayings of the first generations (salaf) and eminent later people.