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Al-Bukhari expelled from Bukhara and settles at Khartank, 256/870

إخراج البخاري من بخارى ونزوله خرتنك، ٢٥٦هـ

c. August 870 CE · c. Ramadan 256 AH

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When al-Bukhari returned to Bukhara, its governor Khalid ibn Ahmad al-Dhuhli sent word asking him to bring the books of the Jami' and the Tarikh so that he might hear from him; al-Bukhari refused, saying: I will not abase learning nor carry it to people's doors — if he needs any of it let him come to my mosque or my house. The governor then asked him to hold a special session for his children, and he refused to single anyone out. This estrangement between them ended in his expulsion 1 2; he settled at Khartank, a village of Samarkand two parasangs away, where he had relatives with whom he lodged 1.

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860870880 c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation

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When al-Bukhari returned to Bukhara, its governor Khalid ibn Ahmad al-Dhuhli sent word asking him to bring the books of the Jami' and the Tarikh so that he might hear from him; al-Bukhari refused, saying: I will not abase learning nor carry it to people's doors — if he needs any of it let him come to my mosque or my house. The governor then asked him to hold a special session for his children, and he refused to single anyone out. This estrangement between them ended in his expulsion 1 2; he settled at Khartank, a village of Samarkand two parasangs away, where he had relatives with whom he lodged 1.

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Death of Imam al-Bukhari at Khartank, on the festival night of 1 Shawwal 256/31 August 870· Al Bukhari· Khartank· Birth of Imam al-Bukhari at Bukhara, Shawwal 194/810· Al-Bukhari's first hearing of hadith at Bukhara, 205/820· «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· Al-Bukhari's ordeal at Nishapur and his departure for Bukhara, c. 250/864

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  1. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 14
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1360
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Death of Imam al-Bukhari at Khartank, on the festival night of 1 Shawwal 256/31 August 870

Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari died at Khartank on the festival night, the first night of Shawwal 256, having reached sixty-two years less thirteen nights; he was in a house alone and they found him dead when morning came, and he was buried at Khartank. He had been heard at night, after finishing the night prayer, saying in his supplication: O God, the earth has grown narrow for me despite its breadth, so take me to You — and before the month was out God took him.