At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
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Summary
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mughira ibn Bardizba al-Ju'fi al-Bukhari was born at Bukhara in Shawwal 194 and grew up an orphan 1; his nisba al-Ju'fi comes from his great-grandfather al-Mughira, a mawla of Yaman al-Ju'fi the governor of Bukhara at whose hands he accepted Islam 2, and his father Isma'il was one of the scrupulous scholars 3.
Connections
- Had participant
- Al Bukhari
- Occurred at
- Bukhara
People and things also explored
Al-Bukhari's first hearing of hadith at Bukhara, 205/820· Al Bukhari· Bukhara· Al-Biruni takes refuge at Bukhara· The killing of Sultan Alp Arslan and the accession of Malikshah· Al-Bukhari expelled from Bukhara and settles at Khartank, 256/870· «Muhammad ibn Isma'il is the most learned man to enter Nishapur», 247/861· Al-Bukhari's pilgrimage and his stay in the Hijaz seeking hadith, 210/825
Sources
- Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 3, 14
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1360
- Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 3
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islam.museum contributors. “Birth of Imam al-Bukhari at Bukhara, Shawwal 194/810”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/birth-al-bukhari-194/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.