At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Al-Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhari, musnad of the world; he transmitted hadith for over sixty years, singular in the high chain until he joined grandchildren to grandfathers in isnad height, and students travelled to him from every land; he read fiqh under Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Din and read al-Muqni' to him, who licensed him to teach it. 1
His lofty isnad
Al-Dhahabi said, asking al-Mizzi about him: "one of the great shaykhs of the house of knowledge and hadith — we know no one who enjoyed such fortune in transmission in these times"; Ibn Taymiyya said, "my breast expands when I bring Ibn al-Bukhari between me and the Prophet in a hadith" — and he entered between them in countless hadiths, among them the hadith musalsal of the Hanbalis called Silsilat al-dhahab, the Golden Chain. 1
Connections
- Studied under
- Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
al-Muhibb Abdallah, Mufid al-Jabal· Ibrahim, khatib of the Mountain· Izz al-Din al-Maqdisi· Sayf al-Din Ibn Qudama· Sharaf al-Din al-Maqdisi al-Salihi· Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi· Damascus· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 725-726
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-fakhr-ibn-al-bukhari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.