Al-Bukhari composes the Tarikh at the Prophet's tomb in Medina, c. 212/828

Name: Al-Bukhari composes the Tarikh at the Prophet's tomb in Medina, c. 212/828
Location: Medina

تصنيف البخاري «التاريخ» عند قبر النبي بالمدينة، نحو ٢١٢هـ

c. 828 CE · c. 212 AH

Al-Bukhari said of himself: when I reached eighteen I began to compile the Tarikh at the Prophet ﷺ's tomb on moonlit nights ¹; it is the Tarikh al-Kabir giving the biographies of the men whose names appear in the isnads, which he wrote as a young man by moonlight at the tomb ².

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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Persia & Central Asia

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Al-Bukhari said of himself: when I reached eighteen I began to compile the Tarikh at the Prophet's tomb on moonlit nights ¹; it is the Tarikh al-Kabir giving the biographies of the men whose names appear in the isnads, which he wrote as a young man by moonlight at the tomb ².

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Had participant: Al Bukhari
Occurred at: Medina
During the reign of: Abd Allah al-Ma'mun ibn Harun al-Rashid

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Al-Bukhari's first hearing of hadith at Bukhara, 205/820· Al-Bukhari's pilgrimage and his stay in the Hijaz seeking hadith, 210/825· Muwatta 527· Muwatta 575· Muwatta 606· Muwatta 822· Muwatta 1112· Yahya ibn Ma'in

Sources

Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 5
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1361

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Al-Bukhari's first hearing of hadith at Bukhara, 205/820

Al-Bukhari's first hearing was in 205 when he was about ten years old; reared an orphan, he memorised hadith by heart until his companions would correct what they had written down from what he dictated to them from memory; he was so gifted in intelligence and memory that as a boy he could already correct his teachers.