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'''Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī''' ({{Langx|ar|أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل بن إبرهيم الجعفي البخاري}}; 21 July 810 – 1 September 870) was a 9th-century ] '']'' who is widely regarded as the most important ''hadith'' scholar in the ]. Al-Bukhari's extant works include the ''hadith'' collection '']'', '']'', and '']''. | |||
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Born in ] in present-day ], Al-Bukhari began learning ''hadith'' at a young age. He travelled across the ] and learned under several influential contemporary scholars. Bukhari memorized thousands of ''hadith'' narrations, compiling the ''Sahih al-Bukhari'' in 846. 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 ] from ]. Subsequently, he moved to Khartank, near ]. | |||
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''Sahih al-Bukhari'' is revered as the most important '']'' collection in ]. ''Sahih al-Bukhari'' and ''],'' the ''hadith'' collection of Al-Bukhari's student ], are together known as the '''Sahihayn''' ({{Langx|ar|صحيحين|lit=|translit=Saḥiḥayn}}) and are regarded by Sunnis as the most authentic books after the ]. It is part of the ], the six most highly regarded collections of ''hadith'' in Sunni Islam. | |||
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Popularly known as just '''''Bukhari''''', '''''Al-Bukhari''''' or '''''] Bukhari''''' (]-]), he was a famous ] ] of ] ancestry <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>, most known for authoring the ] named ], a collection whom Sunni regard as the most authentic (Arabic: '']'') collection after the ]<ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
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== Life == | ||
Hi full name is '''Muhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardiziyeh al-Bukhari''' (Arabic: محمد بن اسماعيل بن ابراهيم بن المغيرة بن بردزبه البخاري). | |||
=== Ancestry and early life === | |||
Much of the information regarding his life used in this article are originally from Sunni sources. | |||
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari al-Ju'fi was born after the ] on Friday, 21 July 810 (13 ] 194 ]) in the city of ] in ] in present-day ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://global.britannica.com/place/Transoxania |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308162534/https://global.britannica.com/place/Transoxania |archive-date=8 March 2021}}</ref><ref name="melchert">{{cite encyclopedia |title=al-Bukhārī |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam |publisher=Brill Online |url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/al-bukhari-COM_2isisiideiiiseijjejdjjxj |last=Melchert |first=Christopher}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1998 |title=Bukhari |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of World Biography |publisher=Gale |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bpAYAAAAIAAJ&q=Bukhari |access-date=19 October 2015 |editor1-last=Bourgoin |editor1-first=Suzanne Michele |edition=2nd |page=112 |isbn=9780787625436 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520134155/https://books.google.com/books?id=bpAYAAAAIAAJ&q=Bukhari |archive-date=20 May 2016 |editor2-last=Byers |editor2-first=Paula Kay |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1971 |title=Bukhārī |encyclopedia=A Guide to Eastern Literatures |publisher=Praeger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsZiAAAAMAAJ&q=Bukhari |access-date=19 October 2015 |editor1-last=Lang |editor1-first=David Marshall |page=33 |isbn=9780297002741 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425230836/https://books.google.com/books?id=CsZiAAAAMAAJ&q=Bukhari |archive-date=25 April 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> He was of ] descent<ref name="abdulmaujood" /><ref name="Bukhari">{{cite encyclopedia |year=1998 |title=Bukhari |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of World Biography |publisher=Gale |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bpAYAAAAIAAJ&q=Bukhari |editor1-last=Bourgoin |editor1-first=Suzanne Michele |edition=2nd |page=112 |isbn=9780787625436 |editor2-last=Byers |editor2-first=Paula Kay}}</ref><ref name="Bukhārī">{{cite encyclopedia |year=1971 |title=Bukhārī |encyclopedia=A Guide to Eastern Literatures |publisher=Praeger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsZiAAAAMAAJ&q=Bukhari |editor1-last=Lang |editor1-first=David Marshall |page=33 |isbn=9780297002741}}</ref> and his father was ], a scholar of hadith and a student of ], ], and ].<ref name="abdulmaujood">{{cite book |author=Salaahud-Deen ibn ʿAlee ibn ʿAbdul-Maujood |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NDxSBJ0E7kUC |title=The Biography of Imam Bukhaaree |date=December 2005 |publisher=Darussalam |others=Translated by Faisal Shafeeq |isbn=9960969053 |edition=1st |location=Riyadh |access-date=19 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624122918/https://books.google.com/books?id=NDxSBJ0E7kUC |archive-date=24 June 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=About - Sahih al-Bukhari - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم) |url=https://sunnah.com/bukhari/about |access-date=2022-08-13 |website=sunnah.com}}</ref> Ismail died while Al-Bukhari was an infant. Al-Bukhari's great-grandfather, Al-Mughirah, settled in Bukhara after accepting Islam at the hands of Bukhara's governor, Yaman al-Ju'fi. As was the custom, he became a '']'' of Yaman, and his family continued to carry the '']'' "al-Ju'fi."<ref name="robson">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Robson |first=J. |title=al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition |publisher=Brill Online |url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-bukhari-muhammad-b-ismail-SIM_1510 |date=24 April 2012 |access-date=16 September 2016 |archive-date=21 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921023242/http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-bukhari-muhammad-b-ismail-SIM_1510 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Al-Mughirah's father, Bardizbah ({{Langx|fa|بردزبه}}), is the earliest known ancestor of Al-Bukhari according to most scholars and historians. Bardizbah was a ] ]. ] is the only scholar to name Bardizbah's father, who he says was named Bazzabah ({{langx|fa|بذذبه}}). Little is known of both of them except that they were ] and followed the religion of their people.<ref name="abdulmaujood" /><ref name="Bukhari"/><ref name="Bukhārī"/> Historians have also not come across any information on Al-Bukhari's grandfather, Ibrahim ibn al-Mughirah ({{Langx|ar|إبراهيم ابن المغيرة|translit=Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mughīrā}}).<ref name="abdulmaujood" /> | |||
===Early life (810-820)=== | |||
Bukhari was born in ] ] CE (] 13, ] {{fact}}) in the city of ], in what is today ]. His father, ], was a known hadith scholar that died while Bukhari was young. | |||
=== Travels and education === | |||
]s praise his memory, saying he was: | |||
According to contemporary hadith scholar and historian ], al-Bukhari began studying hadith in the Hijri year 821 CE. He memorized the works of ] while still a child and began writing and narrating hadith while still an adolescent. In the Hijri year 826 CE, at the age of sixteen, Al-Bukhari performed the '']'' with his elder brother and widowed mother.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">''Tathkirah al-Huffath'', vol. 2, pg. 104-5, ''al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah'' edition</ref> Al-Bukhari stayed in ] for two years, before moving to ] where he wrote ''Qadhāyas-Sahābah wa at-Tābi'īn,'' a book about the ] of ] and the ''].'' He also wrote ''Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr'' during his time in Medina.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
:''endowed by nature with great intellectual powers, although he was physically frail. He possessed a sharp and ], and a great tenacity of purpose, which served him well in his academic life. <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/> | |||
Al-Bukhari is known to have travelled to most of the important Islamic learning centres of his time, including ], ], ], ], ], and ]. He studied under prominent Islamic scholars including ], ], ] and ]. Al-Bukhari is known to have memorized over 600,000 ''hadith'' narrations.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=al-Asqalani |first=Ibn Hajar |title=Hady al-Sari, the introduction to Fath al-Bari |title-link=Fath al-Bari |publisher=Darussalam Publications |pages=8–9 |author-link=Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani}}</ref> | |||
Sunnis also state that he developed a power and speed of memory which seemed miraculous, even to his contemporaries {{fact}}. It is said by the age of 10, Imam Bukhari had memorised 70000 hadith by heart with their complete chain of narrations going from him to his teacher, and his teacher's teacher, all the way to Muhammad{{fact}}. | |||
=== ''Mihna'', later years and death === | |||
===Early education (820-826)=== | |||
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He underwent his early education under the guidance of his mother in his native city and by the age of eleven he finished his elementary studies and started to study ] <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
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| author = Al-Bukhari<ref>Brown, Jonathan (2007). "Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim". The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. p. 80. {{ISBN|978-90-04-15839-9}}.</ref> | |||
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}}According to Jonathan Brown, following Ibn Hanbal, Al-Bukhari had reportedly declared that 'reciting the ] is an element of createdness’. Through this assertion, Al-Bukhari had sought an alternative response to the doctrines of ] and declared that the element of creation is applied only to humans, not the Word of God. His statements were received negatively by prominent ] and he was driven out of ].<ref name="rashidi">Wahab, Muhammad Rashidi, and Syed Hadzrullathfi Syed Omar. | |||
"The Level of Imam al-Ash'ari's Thought in Aqidah." International Journal of Islamic Thought 3 (2013), p58-70: | |||
During those studies, he at one time he corrected one of his teachers, who laughed at the audacity of the young student. Bukhari persited and referred to the books, who showed him to be correct. At the age of sixteen, he had learned the knowledge of all the scholars of hadith of Bukhara, as well as everything contained in the books which were available to him <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
"Because of that, al-Bukhari in most matters related to the question of aqidah is said to take the opinion of Ibn Kullab and al-Karabisi (al-'Asqalani 2001: 1/293)"</ref><ref name="azmi">Azmi, Ahmad Sanusi. "Ahl al-Hadith Methodologies on Qur'anic Discourses in the Ninth Century: A Comparative Analysis of Ibn Hanbal and al-Bukhari." Online Journal of Research in Islamic Studies 4.1 (2017): 17-26. "Supporting his master, Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855), al-Bukhari is reported to declare that ‘reciting the Qur’an is an element of createdness’. This statement presumably proclaimed by al-Bukhari as an explanatory assertion intended to provide an alternative source of thought or reasoning for Muslims. Instead of accepting the doctrine of the Mu’tazilites (the group that champions the concept of the creation of the Qur’an), al-Bukhari appears to suggest that the element of creation is only applied to humans, not to the words of God, namely the Qur’an. The statement did, however, receive a negative response from the Muslim community, including some prominent scholars (especially Hanbalites)."</ref><ref name="drove">Melchert, Christopher. "The Piety of the Hadith folk." International Journal of Middle East Studies 34.3 (2002): 425-439. "Hadith folk in Baghdad warned those of Nishapur against the famous traditionist Bukhari, whom they then drove from the city for suggesting one's pronunciation of the Qur'an was created"</ref> Al-Bukhari, however, had only referred to the human action of reading the Qur’an, when he reportedly stated "My recitation of the Quran is created''"'' ({{Langx|ar|لفظي بالقرآن مخلوق|translit=Lafẓī bil-Qur'āni Makhlūq}}).<ref>{{Cite book |last=al-Lalaka'i |first=Abi al-Qāsim |title=Sharh Usul I'tiqād Ahl as-Sunnah wa al-Jamā'ah |publisher=Dar al-Hadith |volume=2 |location=] |pages=396 |language=ar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Jonathan |title=The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon |publisher=Brill |year=2007 |isbn=978-90-04-15839-9 |location=Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands |pages=80 |chapter=Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim}}</ref> ] and al-Subki asserted that Al-Bukhari was expelled due to the jealousy of certain scholars of Nishapur.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sanusi Azmi |first=Ahmad |date=April 2017 |title=Ahl al-Hadith Methodologies on Qur'anic Discourses in the Ninth Century: A Comparative Analysis of Ibn Hanbal and al-Bukhari |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318273198 |journal=Online Journal Research in Islamic Studies |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=23 |quote=" At the crux of the disagreement regarding the meaning of apparently ambiguous terms of ‘lafz al-Qur’an’ (word of the Qur’an), in which al-Bukhari was reported to have uttered ‘lafzi bi al-Qur’an makhluq’ (my recitation of the Qur’an is created), where he is actually referring to the human action of reading the Qur’an, he was immediately at risk... . Al-Dhahabi and al-Subki related that it is due to the jealousy of some scholars of Naisabur (Nishapur).." |via=Research Gate}}</ref> Al-Bukhari spent the last twenty-four years of his life teaching the ''hadith'' he had collected. During the ''mihna'', he fled to Khartank, a village near ], where he then also died on Friday, 1 September 870.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Khair2006">{{cite book |author=Tabish Khair |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcIvtBPnYL8C&q=qilghan&pg=PA393 |title=Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing |publisher=Signal Books |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-904955-11-5 |pages=393– |access-date=18 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708142436/https://books.google.com/books?id=fcIvtBPnYL8C&q=qilghan&pg=PA393 |archive-date=8 July 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> Today his tomb lies within the Imam Bukhari Mausoleum<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pasha |first=Muhammad Ali |date=2023-02-28 |title=Mausoleum of Imam Bukhari, Samarkand |url=https://thegulfobserver.com/mausoleum-of-imam-bukhari-samarkand/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=The Gulf Observer |language=en-US}}</ref> in Hartang, ], 25 kilometers from ]. It was restored in 1998 after centuries of neglect and dilapidation. The mausoleum complex consists of Al-Bukhari's tomb, a ], a ], library, and a small collection of Qurans. The modern ground-level mausoleum tombstone of Al-Bukhari is only a cenotaph, the actual grave lies within a small ] below the structure.<ref name="madainproject">{{cite web |title=Tomb of Imam al-Bukhari |url=https://madainproject.com/tomb_of_imam_al_bukhari |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512125631/https://madainproject.com/tomb_of_imam_al_bukhari |archive-date=12 May 2019 |access-date=12 May 2019 |website=Madain Project}}</ref> | |||
===Arabian peninsula travels === | |||
At age of sixteen, he, together with his brother and widowed mother made the ]. From there he made a series of travels in order to increase his knowledge of hadith. He went through all the important centres of Islamic learning of his time, talked to scholars and exchanged information on hadith. It is recorded that he stayed at ] for four or five years, and in the ] for six; while he travelled to ] twice and to ] and ] many times <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
== Works == | |||
When the authorities in Basrah received information of his arrival, they fixed a time for him to deliver a lecture. At the lecture, he was able to confine himself only to such Hadith as he had received on the authority of the early Hadith scholars of Basrah, and had nonetheless been unknown to the audience <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
{{Main|Sahih al-Bukhari|Al-Adab al-Mufrad|Al-Tarikh al-Kabir}} | |||
]''Sahih al-Bukhari'' is considered Al-Bukhari's '']''. It is a collection of approximately 7,563 ''hadith'' narrations across 97 chapters creating a basis for a complete system of ] without the use of speculative law. The book is highly regarded among Sunni Muslims, and most Sunni scholars consider it second only to the ] in terms of authenticity. It is considered one of the most authentic collection of hadith, even ahead of '']'' and '']''. Alongside the latter, ''Sahih al-Bukhari'' is known as one of the '''Sahihayn'' (Two ''Sahihs'')' and they are together part of the ].<ref name="auto">Abdul Qadir Muhammad Jalal et al., "Elevating Imam Al Bukhari: Affirming the Status of Imam Al Bukhari and His Sahih by Dispelling the Misconceptions Surrounding them", Lagos 2021</ref> One of the most famous stories from the ''Sahih al-Bukhari'' is the story of Muhammad's first revelation. | |||
Al-Bukhari wrote three works discussing narrators of hadith with respect to their ability in conveying their material. These are ''Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr'', ''Al-Tarīkh al-Awsaţ'', and ''Al-Tarīkh al-Ṣaghīr.'' Of these, ''Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr'' is published and well-known, while Al-Tarīkh al-Ṣaghīr is lost.<ref>Fihris Musannafāt al-Bukhāri, pp. 28-30.</ref> Al-Dhahabi quotes Al-Bukhari as having said, “When I turned eighteen years old, I began writing about the companions and the ''tabi'un'' and their statements. At that time I also authored a book of history at the ] at night during a full moon."<ref name=":0"/> The books being referred to here were ''Qadhāyas-Sahābah wa at-Tābi'īn'' and ''].'' Al-Bukhari also wrote al-Kunā on ]s, and Al-Ḍu'afā al-Ṣaghīr on weak narrators of hadith.<ref>Fihris Muṣannafāt al-Bukhāri, pp. 9-61, Dār al-'Āṣimah, Riyaḍ: 1410.</ref> ] is a collection of hadith narrations on ] and manners.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=AdabMufrad |url=http://bewley.virtualave.net/AdabMufrad.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231020651/http://bewley.virtualave.net/AdabMufrad.html |archive-date=31 December 2014 |access-date=25 February 2013 |website=bewley.virtualave.net}}</ref> | |||
While in Baghdad, he was tested by ten Hadith scholars. They changed the ] and text of one hundred hadith, and asked Bukhari about them during a public meeting. He said that he was not familiar with those hadith, recited the un-changed versions and said that they had probably inadvertently recited them wrongly. This was repeated by four hundred scholars in ] <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
In response to the accusations levied against him during his ''mihna'', Al-Bukhari compiled the ] ''Khalq Af'āl al-'Ibād'', the earliest traditionalist representation of the position taken by Ahmad ibn Hanbal, in which Al-Bukhari explains that the Quran is God's uncreated speech, while maintaining that God creates human actions, as the Sunnis had insisted in their attacks on the free-will position of ]. The first section of the book reports narrations from earlier scholars such as ] that affirmed the ] doctrine of the uncreated nature of the ] and condemned anyone who held the contrary position as a '']'' or ]. The second section asserts that the acts of men are created, relying on Qur'anic verses and reports from earlier traditionalist scholars like ]. In the last part of his treatise, Al-Bukhari harshly condemned the '']'', defending the belief that sound of the Qur'an being recited is created.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Jonathan |title=The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon |publisher=Brill |year=2007 |isbn=978-90-04-15839-9 |location=Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands |pages=80–82 |chapter=Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim}}</ref> Al-Bukhari cited Ahmad Ibn Hanbal as evidence for his position, re-affirming the latter's legacy and the former's allegiance to the ''Ahl al-Hadith.''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Jonathan |title=The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon |publisher=Brill |year=2007 |isbn=978-90-04-15839-9 |location=Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands |pages=79 |chapter=Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim |quote="Al-Bukhari’s allegiance to the ahl al-hadith camp and to Ibn Hanbal himself is thus obvious. Indeed, he quotes Ibn Hanbal as evidence for his position on the lafz."}}</ref>''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Jonathan |title=The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon |publisher=Brill |year=2007 |isbn=978-90-04-15839-9 |location=Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands |pages=79 |chapter=Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim}}</ref>'' | |||
===Travels in the Islamic world=== | |||
Already, in his eighteenth year{{fact}}, he had devoted himself to the collecting, sifting, testing and arranging of traditions. For that purpose he travelled over the ], all the way to ], ], ], and ], seeking hadith narrators and listening to them. It is said that he heard from over 1,000 men, and learned over 600,000 traditions, both authentic and rejected ones{{fact}}, and thus became the acknowledged authority on the subject After sixteen years' absence he returned to Bukhara, and there drew up his ''']''', a collection of 7275 tested traditions, arranged in chapters so as to afford bases for a complete system of ] without the use of speculative law, (see ]). His book is highly regarded among ] Muslims, and considered the most authentic collection of hadith (a minority of Sunni scholars consider Sahih Muslim, compiled by Bukhari's student ], more authentic). Most Sunni scholars consider it second only to the Qur'an in terms of authenticity . He also composed other books, including '''al-Adab al-Mufrad''', which is a collection of hadiths on ] and manners, as well as two books containing biographies of hadith narrators (see ]). | |||
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=== List of works === | ||
'''Historical and biographical works'''<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Abu-Alabbas |first=Belal |title=Between scripture and human reason: an intellectual biography of Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī (d.256/870) |date=2018 |pages=38–39}}</ref> | |||
At the age of 54, in the year ] CE (]), he came to the great ] city of Neesaaboor (]?). He received a "grand reception" , wished to settle down there and devoted himself to teaching hadith. <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
* '']'' = ''Kitāb al-Tārīkh'' (The Great History) | |||
It was in Neesaaboor that he meet ] <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. He would be be considered his student, and eventually authoured ]. | |||
* ''Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar min al-tārīkh'' = ''al-Tārīkh al-awsaṭ'' | |||
* ''Asāmī al-ṣaḥābah'' (On the Prophet's Companions) | |||
'''Hadith collections and sciences<ref name=":5" />''' | |||
] summoned him Bukhari to hold lectures at his palace, but Bukhari declined. This resulted in Bukhari being obliged to leave the town, and traveled to ], a village near ], at the request of its inhabitants. He settled down there and died in the year ] CE (]), 60 years old <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
* '']'' | |||
He died in banishment at Khartank, a suburb of ]. His grave is still visited, and some believe that prayers are to be heard there. {{fact}} | |||
* ''Al-Duʿafāʾ'' = ''al-Duʿafāʾ al-kabīr'' = ''al-Duʿafāʾ al-ṣaghīr'' | |||
* ''Kitāb al-wuḥdān'' (On the Companions from whom only one hadith is transmitted) (lost) | |||
* ''Kitāb al-ʿilal'' (lost) | |||
* ''Birr al-wālidayn'' (hadith collection on filial piety) | |||
* '']'' | |||
* ''Kitāb al-hiba'' | |||
'''Fiqh and theological works<ref name=":5" />''' | |||
==Personality== | |||
Sunni sources portray that his collection of hadith became short of an obsession of his. He used all of his money to travel, and at one occasion, he was so short of money that he lived on wild herbs for three days. <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
* ''Al-Sunan fī al-fiqh'' = ''al-Fawāʾid'' = ''al-Mabṣūṭ'' (lost) | |||
On one occasion, it is said that he was travelling on a boat and had 500 gold coins with him to get him through his journey. While at sea, one of the people on the boat saw his money, and out of greed, he began screaming "I had 500 gold coins and someone has stolen it". At that moment, Imam Bukhari threw his 500 gold coins in to the ocean. The whole boat was searched and no 500 gold coins was found. After arriving at their destination, the man asked Imam Bukhari, "what did you do with the money?", he replied, "I threw it in the ocean". Out of shock the man asked "why?". Imam Bukhari replied, "I am compiling a book of the hadith of the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him), I cannot allow anything to damage my reputation and discredit me".{{fact}} | |||
* ''Al-Jāmiʾ al-Ṣaḥīḥ'' = ''al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr'' = ''al-Musnad al-kabīr'' | |||
* ''Rafʿ al-yadayn fī al-ṣalāh'' | |||
* ''Al-Qirāʾa khalfa al-imām'' | |||
* ''Kitāb Khalq afʿal al-ʿibād'' | |||
== School of law == | |||
===Theological position=== | |||
In terms of law, scholars like ] assert that al-Bukhari was of the '']'', an adherent of ]'s traditionalist school in law (]), but fell victim to its most radical wing due to misunderstandings.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Jonathan |title=The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon |publisher=Brill |year=2007 |isbn=978-90-04-15839-9 |location=Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands |pages=78 |chapter=Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim |quote=}}</ref> This claim is supported by ]s, although members of the ] and ] schools levy this claim as well.<ref>Imam al-Bukhari. (d. 256/870; Tabaqat al-Shafi'iya, 2.212-14 )</ref><ref>Falih al-Dhibyani, {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703102411/http://www.okaz.com.sa/okaz/osf/20060615/Con2006061525519.htm|date=3 July 2013}}. Interview with ] for ]. 15 July 2006, Iss. #1824. Photography by Salih Ba Habri.</ref> Scott Lucas argues that al-Bukhari's legal positions were similar to those of the ]s and ] of his time, suggesting al-Bukhari rejected '']'' and other forms of '']'' completely.<ref name="The Legal Principles of Muhammad B">{{cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=Scott C. |date=2006 |title=The Legal Principles of Muhammad B. Ismāʿīl Al-Bukhārī and Their Relationship to Classical Salafi Islam |journal=Islamic Law and Society |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=290–292, 303 |doi=10.1163/156851906778946341}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=Scott C. |date=2006 |title=The Legal Principles of Muhammad B. Ismāʿīl Al-Bukhārī and Their Relationship to Classical Salafi Islam |journal=Islamic Law and Society |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=290, 312 |doi=10.1163/156851906778946341}}</ref> Many are of the opinion that Al-Bukhari was a ] with his own ''madhhab''.<ref>Sattar, Abdul. "Konstruksi Fiqh Bukhari dalam Kitab al-Jami’al-Shahih." De Jure: Jurnal Hukum dan Syar'iah 3.1 (2011).</ref><ref>Masrur, Ali, and Imam Zainuddin Az-Zubaidi. "Imam Muhammad bin Ismail al-Bukhari (194-256 H): Kolektor Hadis Nabi Saw. paling unggul di Dunia Islam." (2018): 1-16.</ref><ref>Hasyim, Muh Fathoni. "FIKIH IMAM AL-BUKHAR1." (2009).</ref><ref name="Mughal, Justice R 2012">Mughal, Justice R. Dr, and Munir Ahmad. "Imam Bukhari (رحمۃ اللہ علیہ) Was a Mujtahid Mutlaq." Available at SSRN 2049357 (2012).</ref> Munir Ahmad asserts that historically most jurists considered him to be a '']'' (scholar of ''hadith'') and not a '']'' (jurist), and that as a ''muhaddith,'' he followed the ] school.<ref name=":2" /> The Harvard historian ] also asserts this, as he states that he was a student of the Shafi'i scholar {{ill|al-Karabisi|ar|الحسين الكرابيسي}} (d. 245/859).<ref name=":3">The '''Canonization''' of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History Reprint by '''El''' Shamsy, '''Ahmed''' (ISBN 9781107546073). Page 70,165,170,197&217</ref> | |||
His ] position was conservative and anti-]; he enjoyed the friendship and respect of ], and was persecuted because he held to Ibn Hanbal's views in matter of creed (Arabic: '']''), specially that the ] is not created. His legal views appear to have been ]{{fact}}. | |||
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== Theology == | ||
According to some scholars, such as ], and also ] theologians, including ] and ], al-Bukhari was a follower of the ] school of Sunni theology due to his position on the ''utterance'' of the Quran being created.<ref name=":4">"The Adversaries of Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal", 1997 Christopher Melchert. | |||
He is also said to a have been a very good archer, gaining skill as a recreation. His ] is said to have written that Bukhari "often went out to practice his aim, and only twice during his sojourn with him did he see him miss the mark."<ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
"Al-Karabisi's (And Ibn Kullabs) doctrine of the pronunciation was taken up after him by Ahmad al-Sarrak (fl. ca. 240/854-855), Abu Thawr (d. 240/854), Ibn Kullab (d. ca. 240/854-855), al-Harit al-Muhasibi (d. 243/857-858), Dawud al-Zahiri (d. 270/884), and even al-Bukhari (d. 256/870). Indeed, most of the known semi-rationalist Kullabi school were loosely associated with Al-Shafi'i."</ref><ref name="fath2">{{cite book |last=Al-Asqalani |first=Ibn Hajar |title=Fath al-bari sharh Sahih al-Bukhari |publisher=Maktabah Misr |year=2001 |volume=1 |page=293}}</ref><ref name="rashidi" /> Other Kullabis, such as ], were harassed and made to relocate, a similar situation al-Bukhari found himself towards the latter years of his life by other Hanbalis.<ref name="drove" /><ref>Shakir, Zaid. "Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance." NID Publishers, 2008.</ref> He was also known to be a student of {{ill|al-Karabisi|ar|الحسين الكرابيسي}} (d. 245/859), who was a direct student of ] from his period in Iraq.<ref>The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim. Jonathon AC Brown. Page 71</ref><ref name=":3" /> Al-Karabisi was also known to have associated himself directly with ] and the Kullabi school of thought.<ref>The Formative Period Of Islamic Thought by Watt, W. Montomery</ref><ref name=":4" /> | |||
==Legacy== | |||
His repeated trials and triumphs won him recognition as the greatest Hadith scholar of his time by all the major authorities with whom he came in contact, including ], ], ], ], and others. <ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
A significant number of scholars, both historical and contemporary, maintain that al-Bukhari was an independent mujtahid and did not adhere to any of the four famous madhhabs. ] said that: Imam Bukhari was a ], a scholar capable of making his own ] without following any Islamic school of jurisprudence in particular.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ص157 - كتاب الكاشف - حرف الميم - المكتبة الشاملة |url=https://shamela.ws/book/2171/845 |access-date=2024-09-15 |website=shamela.ws}}</ref> | |||
===Sunni view=== | |||
] Muslims view him as one of the greatest scholars of Islam, a great man for whose work the world's Muslims have a lot in debt. | |||
=== Interpretation of God's attributes === | |||
A Sunni source describes him thus: | |||
According to ] in her work 'Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists', al-Bukhari in his ], in the book entitled "Tafsir al-Qur'an wa 'ibaratih" , ], verse 88: "kullu shay'in halikun illa Wajhah" , he said the term means: "except His Sovereignty/Dominance". And there is other than that in terms of ] (metaphorical interpretation), like the term 'dahk' ({{langx|ar|ضحك|lit=laughter}}) which is narrated in a hadith, His Mercy.<ref>{{cite book|author=]|title=Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists: Theology, Power and Sunni Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyaODwAAQBAJ|date=2018|publisher=]|isbn=9781838609832|page=96}}</ref> | |||
:''Throughout his life, al-Bukhaaree displayed the character of a devout and pious Muslim scholar. He was rigorous in the observance of his religious duties, ensuring that rather than relying on charity he always lived by means of trade, in which he was scrupulously honest. Once he lost ten thousand dirhams on account of a minute scruple. A good deal of his income, in fact, was spent on helping the students and the poor. It is said that he never showed an ill-temper to anyone, even when there was more than sufficient cause; nor did he bear ill-will against anybody. Even towards those who had caused his exile from Neesaaboor, he harboured no grudge.<ref name= "fatwa-online.com"/>. | |||
=== Views on predestination === | |||
===Shi'a view=== | |||
Al-Bukhari also rebuked those who rejected of '']'' (]) in '']'' by quoting a verse of the Qur'an implying that God had precisely determined all human acts.<ref name="azmi" /> According to ], al-Bukhari signified that if someone was to accept autonomy in creating his acts, he would be assumed to be playing God's role and so would subsequently be declared a ''],'' similar to the later ] view of '']'' (acquisition, occasionalism, and causality, which link human action with divine omnipotence).<ref name="azmi" /> In another chapter, al-Bukhari refutes the creeds of the ]. According to ], the heading of that chapter was designed not only to refute the Kharijites but any who held similar beliefs.<ref name="azmi" /> | |||
Shi'a do not have a good view towards him. However, this negative view is not comparable to the extremely negative view that Shi'a have towards, for example, ] or ]. In Shi'a view, Bukhari strove to preserve Islam, a comandable effort in Shi'a view. | |||
== See also == | |||
However, Shi'a criticize him, viewing him as biased ''against'' the ]. Bukhari had set some standards for determining how to rate hadith as authentic (Arabic: '']''), but when he encountered hadith who fullfiled those standards and where enhancing the status of the Ahl al-Bayt, Bukhari preferred to disregard them. He did this even in cases where the hadith where wiedly acknowledged as authentic, most notably in the case of the ], whom he choose to ignore and not include in his ]. | |||
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Shi'a do not speculate in what his motives for this was, but this negativly colors the Shi'a view of Bukhari in quite a high degree. Shi'a point out to other Sunni scholars that did not have this bias, for example, Bukharis student ], whom did include the ] in his ], and also Sunni scholars that had the opposite view. For example, ] included a very high number of pro-Ahl al-Bayt hadith in his ], hadith who he claimed all fulfilled Bukharis criteria of authenticity. A second examply would include ], the authour of ]. | |||
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* Al Adab Al Mufrad الأدب المفرد | |||
* al-Tarikh al-Kabir The big history, containing biographies of narrators, with a rating of each | |||
* al-Tarikh al-Saghir The little history | |||
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*], ''Shâfi`iten'', 78 ff. | |||
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*], ''Mohammedanische Studien'', ii. 157 ff. | |||
*], ''Biographical Dictionary'' 86 ff. | |||
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* Bukhari, Imam (194-256H) الإمام البُخاري; An educational Encyclopedia of Islam; Syed Iqbal Zaheer | |||
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* Abdul Qadir Muhammad Jalal et al., "Elevating Imam Al Bukhari: Affirming the Status of Imam Al Bukhari and His Sahih by Dispelling the Misconceptions Surrounding them", Lagos 2021 | |||
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* Ghassan Abdul-Jabbar, ''Bukhari'', London, 2007 | |||
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* Jonathan Brown, ''The canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim,'' Leiden 2007 | |||
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* Eerik Dickinson, ''The development of early Sunnite hadith criticism,'' Leiden 2001 | |||
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* Scott C. Lucas, "The legal principles of Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī and their relationship to classical Salafi Islam," ''ILS'' 13 (2006), 289–324 | |||
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* Christopher Melchert, "Bukhārī and early hadith criticism," ''JAOS'' 121 (2001), 7–19 | |||
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* Christopher Melchert, "Bukhārī and his Ṣaḥīḥ," ''Le Muséon'' 123 (2010), 425–54 | |||
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* Alphonse Mingana, ''An important manuscript of the traditions of Bukhārī'', Cambridge 1936 | |||
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Islamic hadith scholar (810–870)ImamAl-Bukhari | |
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البخاري | |
Al-Bukhari's mausoleum | |
Title | Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith |
Personal life | |
Born | 21 July 810 13 Shawwal 194 AH Bukhara, Abbasid Caliphate |
Died | 1 September 870(870-09-01) (aged 60) 1 Shawwal 256 AH Khartank, Samarkand, Abbasid Caliphate |
Resting place | Imam Bukhari Mosque near Samarkand, Uzbekistan |
Era | Islamic Golden Age (Abbasid era) |
Region | Abbasid Caliphate |
Main interest(s) | Hadith, Aqidah |
Notable work(s) | Sahih al-Bukhari al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Tarikh al-Kabir Juz Rafa Ul Yadain |
Religious life | |
Religion | Islam |
Denomination | Sunni |
School | Mujtahid |
Creed | See School of Law and Theology |
Muslim leader | |
Influenced by | |
Influenced |
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 810 – 1 September 870) was a 9th-century Muslim muhaddith 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 846. 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.
Sahih al-Bukhari is revered as the most important hadith collection in Sunni Islam. Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, the hadith collection of Al-Bukhari's student Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, are together known as the Sahihayn (Arabic: صحيحين, romanized: Saḥiḥayn) and are regarded by Sunnis as the most authentic books after the Quran. It is part of the Kutub al-Sittah, the six most highly regarded collections of hadith in Sunni Islam.
Life
Ancestry and early life
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari al-Ju'fi was born after the Friday prayer on Friday, 21 July 810 (13 Shawwal 194 AH) in the city of Bukhara in Greater Khorasan in present-day Uzbekistan. He was of Persian descent and his father was Ismail ibn Ibrahim, a scholar of hadith and a student of Malik ibn Anas, Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, and Hammad ibn Salamah. Ismail died while Al-Bukhari was an infant. Al-Bukhari's great-grandfather, Al-Mughirah, settled in Bukhara after accepting Islam at the hands of Bukhara's governor, Yaman al-Ju'fi. As was the custom, he became a mawla of Yaman, and his family continued to carry the nisba "al-Ju'fi."
Al-Mughirah's father, Bardizbah (Persian: بردزبه), is the earliest known ancestor of Al-Bukhari according to most scholars and historians. Bardizbah was a Zoroastrian Magi. Taqi al-Din al-Subki is the only scholar to name Bardizbah's father, who he says was named Bazzabah (Persian: بذذبه). Little is known of both of them except that they were Persian and followed the religion of their people. Historians have also not come across any information on Al-Bukhari's grandfather, Ibrahim ibn al-Mughirah (Arabic: إبراهيم ابن المغيرة, romanized: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mughīrā).
Travels and education
According to contemporary hadith scholar and historian Al-Dhahabi, al-Bukhari began studying hadith in the Hijri year 821 CE. He memorized the works of Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak while still a child and began writing and narrating hadith while still an adolescent. In the Hijri year 826 CE, at the age of sixteen, Al-Bukhari performed the Hajj with his elder brother and widowed mother. Al-Bukhari stayed in Mecca for two years, before moving to Medina where he wrote Qadhāyas-Sahābah wa at-Tābi'īn, a book about the companions of Muhammad and the tabi'un. He also wrote Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr during his time in Medina.
Al-Bukhari is known to have travelled to most of the important Islamic learning centres of his time, including Syria, Kufa, Basra, Egypt, Yemen, and Baghdad. He studied under prominent Islamic scholars including Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini, Yahya ibn Ma'in and Ishaq ibn Rahwayh. Al-Bukhari is known to have memorized over 600,000 hadith narrations.
Mihna, later years and death
Main article: MihnaAl-Bukhari“The Qur'an is God’s speech, uncreated, and the acts of men are created."
According to Jonathan Brown, following Ibn Hanbal, Al-Bukhari had reportedly declared that 'reciting the Quran is an element of createdness’. Through this assertion, Al-Bukhari had sought an alternative response to the doctrines of Mu'tazilites and declared that the element of creation is applied only to humans, not the Word of God. His statements were received negatively by prominent hadith scholars and he was driven out of Nishapur. Al-Bukhari, however, had only referred to the human action of reading the Qur’an, when he reportedly stated "My recitation of the Quran is created" (Arabic: لفظي بالقرآن مخلوق, romanized: Lafẓī bil-Qur'āni Makhlūq). Al-Dhahabi and al-Subki asserted that Al-Bukhari was expelled due to the jealousy of certain scholars of Nishapur. Al-Bukhari spent the last twenty-four years of his life teaching the hadith he had collected. During the mihna, he fled to Khartank, a village near Samarkand, where he then also died on Friday, 1 September 870. Today his tomb lies within the Imam Bukhari Mausoleum in Hartang, Uzbekistan, 25 kilometers from Samarkand. It was restored in 1998 after centuries of neglect and dilapidation. The mausoleum complex consists of Al-Bukhari's tomb, a mosque, a madrasa, library, and a small collection of Qurans. The modern ground-level mausoleum tombstone of Al-Bukhari is only a cenotaph, the actual grave lies within a small crypt below the structure.
Works
Main articles: Sahih al-Bukhari, Al-Adab al-Mufrad, and Al-Tarikh al-KabirSahih al-Bukhari is considered Al-Bukhari's magnum opus. It is a collection of approximately 7,563 hadith narrations across 97 chapters creating a basis for a complete system of jurisprudence without the use of speculative law. The book is highly regarded among Sunni Muslims, and most Sunni scholars consider it second only to the Quran in terms of authenticity. It is considered one of the most authentic collection of hadith, even ahead of Muwatta Imam Malik and Sahih Muslim. Alongside the latter, Sahih al-Bukhari is known as one of the 'Sahihayn (Two Sahihs)' and they are together part of the Kutub al-Sittah. One of the most famous stories from the Sahih al-Bukhari is the story of Muhammad's first revelation.
Al-Bukhari wrote three works discussing narrators of hadith with respect to their ability in conveying their material. These are Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr, Al-Tarīkh al-Awsaţ, and Al-Tarīkh al-Ṣaghīr. Of these, Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr is published and well-known, while Al-Tarīkh al-Ṣaghīr is lost. Al-Dhahabi quotes Al-Bukhari as having said, “When I turned eighteen years old, I began writing about the companions and the tabi'un and their statements. At that time I also authored a book of history at the grave of the Prophet at night during a full moon." The books being referred to here were Qadhāyas-Sahābah wa at-Tābi'īn and Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr. Al-Bukhari also wrote al-Kunā on patronymics, and Al-Ḍu'afā al-Ṣaghīr on weak narrators of hadith. Al-Adab al-Mufrad is a collection of hadith narrations on ethics and manners.
In response to the accusations levied against him during his mihna, Al-Bukhari compiled the treatise Khalq Af'āl al-'Ibād, the earliest traditionalist representation of the position taken by Ahmad ibn Hanbal, in which Al-Bukhari explains that the Quran is God's uncreated speech, while maintaining that God creates human actions, as the Sunnis had insisted in their attacks on the free-will position of Qadariyah. The first section of the book reports narrations from earlier scholars such as Sufyan al-Thawri that affirmed the Sunni doctrine of the uncreated nature of the Quran and condemned anyone who held the contrary position as a Jahmi or Kāfir. The second section asserts that the acts of men are created, relying on Qur'anic verses and reports from earlier traditionalist scholars like Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Qatlan. In the last part of his treatise, Al-Bukhari harshly condemned the Mutazilites, defending the belief that sound of the Qur'an being recited is created. Al-Bukhari cited Ahmad Ibn Hanbal as evidence for his position, re-affirming the latter's legacy and the former's allegiance to the Ahl al-Hadith.
List of works
Historical and biographical works
- Al-Tarikh al-Kabir = Kitāb al-Tārīkh (The Great History)
- Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar min al-tārīkh = al-Tārīkh al-awsaṭ
- Asāmī al-ṣaḥābah (On the Prophet's Companions)
Hadith collections and sciences
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- Al-Duʿafāʾ = al-Duʿafāʾ al-kabīr = al-Duʿafāʾ al-ṣaghīr
- Kitāb al-wuḥdān (On the Companions from whom only one hadith is transmitted) (lost)
- Kitāb al-ʿilal (lost)
- Birr al-wālidayn (hadith collection on filial piety)
- Al-Adab al-Mufrad
- Kitāb al-hiba
Fiqh and theological works
- Al-Sunan fī al-fiqh = al-Fawāʾid = al-Mabṣūṭ (lost)
- Al-Jāmiʾ al-Ṣaḥīḥ = al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr = al-Musnad al-kabīr
- Rafʿ al-yadayn fī al-ṣalāh
- Al-Qirāʾa khalfa al-imām
- Kitāb Khalq afʿal al-ʿibād
School of law
In terms of law, scholars like Jonathan Brown assert that al-Bukhari was of the Ahl al-Hadith, an adherent of Ahmad ibn Hanbal's traditionalist school in law (fiqh), but fell victim to its most radical wing due to misunderstandings. This claim is supported by Hanbalis, although members of the Shafi'i and Ẓāhirī schools levy this claim as well. Scott Lucas argues that al-Bukhari's legal positions were similar to those of the Ẓāhirīs and Hanbalis of his time, suggesting al-Bukhari rejected qiyas and other forms of ra'y completely. Many are of the opinion that Al-Bukhari was a mujtahid with his own madhhab. Munir Ahmad asserts that historically most jurists considered him to be a muhaddith (scholar of hadith) and not a faqīh (jurist), and that as a muhaddith, he followed the Shafi'i school. The Harvard historian Ahmed el-Shamsy also asserts this, as he states that he was a student of the Shafi'i scholar al-Karabisi [ar] (d. 245/859).
Theology
According to some scholars, such as Christopher Melchert, and also Ash'ari theologians, including Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani and al-Bayhaqi, al-Bukhari was a follower of the Kullabi school of Sunni theology due to his position on the utterance of the Quran being created. Other Kullabis, such as al-Harith al-Muhasibi, were harassed and made to relocate, a similar situation al-Bukhari found himself towards the latter years of his life by other Hanbalis. He was also known to be a student of al-Karabisi [ar] (d. 245/859), who was a direct student of Imam al-Shafi'i from his period in Iraq. Al-Karabisi was also known to have associated himself directly with Ibn Kullab and the Kullabi school of thought.
A significant number of scholars, both historical and contemporary, maintain that al-Bukhari was an independent mujtahid and did not adhere to any of the four famous madhhabs. Al-Dhahabi said that: Imam Bukhari was a mujtahid, a scholar capable of making his own ijtihad without following any Islamic school of jurisprudence in particular.
Interpretation of God's attributes
According to Namira Nahouza in her work 'Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists', al-Bukhari in his Sahih, in the book entitled "Tafsir al-Qur'an wa 'ibaratih" , surat al-Qasas, verse 88: "kullu shay'in halikun illa Wajhah" , he said the term means: "except His Sovereignty/Dominance". And there is other than that in terms of ta'wil (metaphorical interpretation), like the term 'dahk' (Arabic: ضحك, lit. 'laughter') which is narrated in a hadith, His Mercy.
Views on predestination
Al-Bukhari also rebuked those who rejected of qadar (predestination) in Sahih al-Bukhari by quoting a verse of the Qur'an implying that God had precisely determined all human acts. According to Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, al-Bukhari signified that if someone was to accept autonomy in creating his acts, he would be assumed to be playing God's role and so would subsequently be declared a Mushrik, similar to the later Ash'ari view of kasb (acquisition, occasionalism, and causality, which link human action with divine omnipotence). In another chapter, al-Bukhari refutes the creeds of the Kharijites. According to Badr al-Din al-'Ayni, the heading of that chapter was designed not only to refute the Kharijites but any who held similar beliefs.
See also
Notes and references
Notes
Citations
- Ibn Rāhwayh, Isḥāq (1990), Balūshī, ʻAbd al-Ghafūr ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Ḥusayn (ed.), Musnad Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh (1st ed.), Tawzīʻ Maktabat al-Īmān, pp. 150–165
- "Encyclopædia Britannica". Archived from the original on 8 March 2021.
- Melchert, Christopher. "al-Bukhārī". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill Online.
- Bourgoin, Suzanne Michele; Byers, Paula Kay, eds. (1998). "Bukhari". Encyclopedia of World Biography (2nd ed.). Gale. p. 112. ISBN 9780787625436. Archived from the original on 20 May 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- Lang, David Marshall, ed. (1971). "Bukhārī". A Guide to Eastern Literatures. Praeger. p. 33. ISBN 9780297002741. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ Salaahud-Deen ibn ʿAlee ibn ʿAbdul-Maujood (December 2005). The Biography of Imam Bukhaaree. Translated by Faisal Shafeeq (1st ed.). Riyadh: Darussalam. ISBN 9960969053. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ Bourgoin, Suzanne Michele; Byers, Paula Kay, eds. (1998). "Bukhari". Encyclopedia of World Biography (2nd ed.). Gale. p. 112. ISBN 9780787625436.
- ^ Lang, David Marshall, ed. (1971). "Bukhārī". A Guide to Eastern Literatures. Praeger. p. 33. ISBN 9780297002741.
- ^ "About - Sahih al-Bukhari - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)". sunnah.com. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- Robson, J. (24 April 2012). "al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ Tathkirah al-Huffath, vol. 2, pg. 104-5, al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah edition
- al-Asqalani, Ibn Hajar. Hady al-Sari, the introduction to Fath al-Bari. Darussalam Publications. pp. 8–9.
- Brown, Jonathan (2007). "Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim". The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. p. 80. ISBN 978-90-04-15839-9.
- ^ Wahab, Muhammad Rashidi, and Syed Hadzrullathfi Syed Omar. "The Level of Imam al-Ash'ari's Thought in Aqidah." International Journal of Islamic Thought 3 (2013), p58-70: "Because of that, al-Bukhari in most matters related to the question of aqidah is said to take the opinion of Ibn Kullab and al-Karabisi (al-'Asqalani 2001: 1/293)"
- ^ Azmi, Ahmad Sanusi. "Ahl al-Hadith Methodologies on Qur'anic Discourses in the Ninth Century: A Comparative Analysis of Ibn Hanbal and al-Bukhari." Online Journal of Research in Islamic Studies 4.1 (2017): 17-26. "Supporting his master, Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855), al-Bukhari is reported to declare that ‘reciting the Qur’an is an element of createdness’. This statement presumably proclaimed by al-Bukhari as an explanatory assertion intended to provide an alternative source of thought or reasoning for Muslims. Instead of accepting the doctrine of the Mu’tazilites (the group that champions the concept of the creation of the Qur’an), al-Bukhari appears to suggest that the element of creation is only applied to humans, not to the words of God, namely the Qur’an. The statement did, however, receive a negative response from the Muslim community, including some prominent scholars (especially Hanbalites)."
- ^ Melchert, Christopher. "The Piety of the Hadith folk." International Journal of Middle East Studies 34.3 (2002): 425-439. "Hadith folk in Baghdad warned those of Nishapur against the famous traditionist Bukhari, whom they then drove from the city for suggesting one's pronunciation of the Qur'an was created"
- al-Lalaka'i, Abi al-Qāsim. Sharh Usul I'tiqād Ahl as-Sunnah wa al-Jamā'ah (in Arabic). Vol. 2. Cairo: Dar al-Hadith. p. 396.
- Brown, Jonathan (2007). "Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim". The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. p. 80. ISBN 978-90-04-15839-9.
- Sanusi Azmi, Ahmad (April 2017). "Ahl al-Hadith Methodologies on Qur'anic Discourses in the Ninth Century: A Comparative Analysis of Ibn Hanbal and al-Bukhari". Online Journal Research in Islamic Studies. 4 (1): 23 – via Research Gate.
At the crux of the disagreement regarding the meaning of apparently ambiguous terms of 'lafz al-Qur'an' (word of the Qur'an), in which al-Bukhari was reported to have uttered 'lafzi bi al-Qur'an makhluq' (my recitation of the Qur'an is created), where he is actually referring to the human action of reading the Qur'an, he was immediately at risk... . Al-Dhahabi and al-Subki related that it is due to the jealousy of some scholars of Naisabur (Nishapur)..
- Tabish Khair (2006). Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing. Signal Books. pp. 393–. ISBN 978-1-904955-11-5. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- Pasha, Muhammad Ali (28 February 2023). "Mausoleum of Imam Bukhari, Samarkand". The Gulf Observer. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- "Tomb of Imam al-Bukhari". Madain Project. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
- ^ Abdul Qadir Muhammad Jalal et al., "Elevating Imam Al Bukhari: Affirming the Status of Imam Al Bukhari and His Sahih by Dispelling the Misconceptions Surrounding them", Lagos 2021
- Fihris Musannafāt al-Bukhāri, pp. 28-30.
- Fihris Muṣannafāt al-Bukhāri, pp. 9-61, Dār al-'Āṣimah, Riyaḍ: 1410.
- "AdabMufrad". bewley.virtualave.net. Archived from the original on 31 December 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- Brown, Jonathan (2007). "Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim". The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 80–82. ISBN 978-90-04-15839-9.
- Brown, Jonathan (2007). "Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim". The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. p. 79. ISBN 978-90-04-15839-9.
Al-Bukhari's allegiance to the ahl al-hadith camp and to Ibn Hanbal himself is thus obvious. Indeed, he quotes Ibn Hanbal as evidence for his position on the lafz.
- Brown, Jonathan (2007). "Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim". The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. p. 79. ISBN 978-90-04-15839-9.
- ^ Abu-Alabbas, Belal (2018). Between scripture and human reason: an intellectual biography of Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī (d.256/870). pp. 38–39.
- ^ Brown, Jonathan (2007). "Three: The Genesis of al-Bukhārī and Muslim". The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. p. 78. ISBN 978-90-04-15839-9.
- Imam al-Bukhari. (d. 256/870; Tabaqat al-Shafi'iya, 2.212-14 )
- Falih al-Dhibyani, Al-zahiriyya hiya al-madhhab al-awwal, wa al-mutakallimun 'anha yahrifun bima la ya'rifun Archived 3 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Interview with Abdul Aziz al-Harbi for Okaz. 15 July 2006, Iss. #1824. Photography by Salih Ba Habri.
- Lucas, Scott C. (2006). "The Legal Principles of Muhammad B. Ismāʿīl Al-Bukhārī and Their Relationship to Classical Salafi Islam". Islamic Law and Society. 13 (3): 290–292, 303. doi:10.1163/156851906778946341.
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- Sattar, Abdul. "Konstruksi Fiqh Bukhari dalam Kitab al-Jami’al-Shahih." De Jure: Jurnal Hukum dan Syar'iah 3.1 (2011).
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- Mughal, Justice R. Dr, and Munir Ahmad. "Imam Bukhari (رحمۃ اللہ علیہ) Was a Mujtahid Mutlaq." Available at SSRN 2049357 (2012).
- ^ The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History Reprint by El Shamsy, Ahmed (ISBN 9781107546073). Page 70,165,170,197&217
- ^ "The Adversaries of Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal", 1997 Christopher Melchert. "Al-Karabisi's (And Ibn Kullabs) doctrine of the pronunciation was taken up after him by Ahmad al-Sarrak (fl. ca. 240/854-855), Abu Thawr (d. 240/854), Ibn Kullab (d. ca. 240/854-855), al-Harit al-Muhasibi (d. 243/857-858), Dawud al-Zahiri (d. 270/884), and even al-Bukhari (d. 256/870). Indeed, most of the known semi-rationalist Kullabi school were loosely associated with Al-Shafi'i."
- Al-Asqalani, Ibn Hajar (2001). Fath al-bari sharh Sahih al-Bukhari. Vol. 1. Maktabah Misr. p. 293.
- Shakir, Zaid. "Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance." NID Publishers, 2008.
- The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim. Jonathon AC Brown. Page 71
- The Formative Period Of Islamic Thought by Watt, W. Montomery
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- Namira Nahouza (2018). Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists: Theology, Power and Sunni Islam. I.B. Tauris. p. 96. ISBN 9781838609832.
Sources
- Bukhari, Imam (194-256H) الإمام البُخاري; An educational Encyclopedia of Islam; Syed Iqbal Zaheer
- Abdul Qadir Muhammad Jalal et al., "Elevating Imam Al Bukhari: Affirming the Status of Imam Al Bukhari and His Sahih by Dispelling the Misconceptions Surrounding them", Lagos 2021
External links
Studies
- Ghassan Abdul-Jabbar, Bukhari, London, 2007
- Jonathan Brown, The canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim, Leiden 2007
- Eerik Dickinson, The development of early Sunnite hadith criticism, Leiden 2001
- Scott C. Lucas, "The legal principles of Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī and their relationship to classical Salafi Islam," ILS 13 (2006), 289–324
- Christopher Melchert, "Bukhārī and early hadith criticism," JAOS 121 (2001), 7–19
- Christopher Melchert, "Bukhārī and his Ṣaḥīḥ," Le Muséon 123 (2010), 425–54
- Alphonse Mingana, An important manuscript of the traditions of Bukhārī, Cambridge 1936
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