Al-Bukhari

Al-Bukhari

Al-Bukhari, or by his full kunya Ebû Abdillâh Muhammed bin İsmâîl bin İbrâhîm el-Cu'fî el-Buhârî (810, Bukhara - 869, Samarkand), was a Persian hadith scholar (muhaddith) who lived in the 9th century and is regarded as the most important hadith scholar in Islamic history. His work, known as Sahih al-Bukhari (Arabic: الجامع الصحيح, El-Camius-Sahih), is the first book of the series later known as the Kutub al-Sittah, which constitutes the reliable sources of hadith for Muslims.

Born in the city of Bukhara in Uzbekistan, al-Bukhari began to learn hadith at a young age. During the period of the Abbasid Caliphate, he went to important centers of learning and took lessons from the influential scholars of his time. Memorizing thousands of hadith narrations, al-Bukhari compiled the Sahih al-Bukhari in 846. He spent the rest of his life teaching the hadiths he had collected. Toward the end of his life, he faced accusations that he believed the Qur'an to be created, and he was exiled from Nishapur. He then moved to Hartenk near Samarkand.

Muhammed bin İsmail el-Buhari el-Cufi was born on Friday, 21 July 810 (13 Shawwal 194), after the Friday prayer, in the city of Bukhara in the Khorasan region of present-day Uzbekistan. He was of Persian origin, and his father was the hadith scholar İsmail bin İbrahim, a student of Malik bin Enes (Malik ibn Anas), Abdullah bin Mübarek, and Hammad ibn Seleme. His father died while al-Bukhari was still an infant. Al-Bukhari's great-great-grandfather Muğire settled in Bukhara after accepting Islam through the preaching of Yeman el-Cufi, the governor of Bukhara. As was the custom, he became the mawla of Yeman el-Cufi, and his family continued to carry the nisba "el-Cufi."

Bardizbah (Persian: بردزبه), the father of al-Bukhari's great-great-grandfather Muğire, is, according to most scholars and historians, al-Bukhari's earliest known ancestor. Bardizbah was a Zoroastrian priest. The only scholar to give the name of Bardizbah's father is Takiyüddin es-Subki (Taqi al-Din al-Subki), who says his father's name was Bazzabah (Persian: بذذبه). Little is known about either of them except that they were Persian and followed the religion of the pre-Islamic Persian peoples. Historians have also not come across any information about al-Bukhari's grandfather İbrahim bin Muğire (Arabic: إبراهيم ابن المغيرة, romanized: Ibrāhīm ibn el-Mughīrā).

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