Al-Bukhari, Iftikhar al-Din Tahir ibn Ahmad · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Jurist · Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

Development of law, theology and institutions

Place in the story

JuristTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Tahir ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rashid al-Bukhari, titled Iftikhar al-Din, a Hanafi jurist from Bukhara. He is probably born in the village of Maymurgh near it. He died in 582 AH (1186 CE). ¹

People and things also explored

Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)· Hired worker (ajir)· Stranger, outsider (ajnabi)

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Bukhari, Iftikhar al-Din Tahir ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bukhari-iftikhar-al-din-tahir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)

In the lexicon, add is gripping a thing with the teeth and holding it. If a person bites another without right and a wound results, the biter must pay the damages for the wound, assessed as a just award by experts. If one man bites another's hand and the bitten man pulls it free so that the biter's front teeth fall out, most jurists hold that there is no liability, relying on a prophetic judgement in such a case; the Shafi'is limit this to a bitten man who chose the easiest means of release, and the preferred Maliki view requires compensation.