At a glance
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
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In time
Summary
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 1. 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 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- Al Bukhari
- Occurred at
- Khartank
People and things also explored
Al-Bukhari expelled from Bukhara and settles at Khartank, 256/870· 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
Sources
- Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 14
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes
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islam.museum contributors. “Death of Imam al-Bukhari at Khartank, on the festival night of 1 Shawwal 256/31 August 870”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/death-al-bukhari-256/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.