Imam bukhari short biography
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A Short Biography of Imam Bukhari
Any person having slightest knowledge about the Sunnah of Prophet (ﷺ) has definitely come across the name of Imam Al Bukhari. His full name is Abu Abdullah Mohammad Ibn Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Mughirah ibn Bardizbah Al Jufi Al Bukhari. He was of Persian origin and was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan in the year Hijri ( AD). At that time, Mohammad bin Harun-ur-Rashid was the (6th Abbasid) Caliph of the Muslim world.
Imam Bukhari’s ancestors were Zoroastrians and his great grandfather Al Mughirah accepted Islam at the hand of a person from the Tribe Al Jufi. The father of Imam Bukhari was a businessman and he attended some lectures of Imam Malik ibnu Anas. However, Imam Bukhari’s father died at an early age and he grew up under the supervision of his mother who was a very pious woman. It is reported that at a very ung age Imam Bukhari almost lost his eyesight and his mother continued to pray to Allah day and night for her son’s recovery and one day Im
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Imam Al-Bukhari
After the honorable Companions, Imam Al-Bukhari ranks as one of the most eminent scholars who have conferred endless bliss upon the Ummah. The greatest bevis of this is the book of Hadith he compiled, commonly known as Sahih Al-Bukhari, which is universally acknowledged as the most authentic book after the Qur’an.
His Early Years
Imam Abu `Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma`il Al-Bukhari was born on Shawwal 13, AH , in the famous city of Bukhara, present day Uzbekistan. The father of Al-Bukhari, Isma`il ibn Ibrahim ibn Al-Mughirah Al-Ja`fi, was a great scholar of Hadith and ascetics, from whom the son inherited the characteristics of literary zeal and excellence.
During Al-Bukhari’s infancy, his father passed away and his mother took on the entire responsibility of bringing him up. Al-Bukhari became blind at a young age. He had recourse to many famous and skilled doctors of his time, but their treatments made no difference. His mother was a pious worshiper and a right
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Muhammad al-Bukhari
Islamic hadith scholar (–)
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل بن إبرهيم الجعفي البخاري; 21 July – 1 September ) was a 9th-century PersianMuslimmuhaddith who is widely regarded as the most important hadith scholar in the history of Sunni Islam. Al-Bukhari's extant works include the hadith collection Sahih al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, and al-Adab al-Mufrad.
Born in Bukhara in present-day Uzbekistan, Al-Bukhari began learning hadith at a young age. He travelled across the Abbasid Caliphate and learned under several influential contemporary scholars. Bukhari memorized thousands of hadith narrations, compiling the Sahih al-Bukhari in He spent the rest of his life teaching the hadith he had collected. Towards the end of his life, Bukhari faced claims the Quran was created, and was exiled from Nishapur. Subsequently, he moved to Khartank, near Samarkand.
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