Sulaiman Harun
04-11-07, 02:40 AM
Imam Bukhaaree
:start:
:salams
:alhumdull
He is Muhammad Ibn Isrnaa’eel Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhaaree , Aboo ‘Abdullaah, he was born in
Shawwaal, 194H.
His Shaykh’s include:
In Balkh:
Makkee ibn Ibraaheem (126-214H).
In Marw:
‘Adnaan ibn ‘Uthmaan al-’Atakee (145-221H), ‘Alee ibn al-
Hasan ibn Shaqeeq (137-215H), Sadaqah ibn al-Fadl (c. 150-
223H).
In Neesaaboor:
Yahyaa ibn Yahyaa ibn Bakr al-Muqri (142-226H).
In Rayy:
Ibraaheem ibn Moosaa ibn Yazeed ar-Raazee (d.>230H).
In Baghdaad (at the end of 210H):
Muhammad ibn ‘Eesaa ibn at-Tabbaa (d. 224H), Suraij ibn an-
Nu’maan (d. 217H), Muhammad ibn Saabiq (d. 214H), ‘Affaan
ibn Muslim al-Baahilee (d. 220H).
In Basrah:
Aboo ‘Aasim an-Nabeel (122-212H), Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullaah
ibn al-Muthannaa al-Ansaaree (118-215H), ‘Abdur-Rahmaan
ibn Hammaad ash-Shu’aythee (d. 212H), Muhammad ibn
‘Ar’arah (d. 212H), Hajjaaj ibn Minhaal (d. 217H), Badl ibn al-
Muhabbir al-Yarboo’ee (d. 215H), ‘Abdullaah ibn Rajaa al-
Ghudaanee (d. 220H).
In Koofah:
‘Ubaydullaah ibn Moosaa (c. 120-213H), Aboo Nu’aym al-Fadl
ibn Dukayn (130-219H), Khaalid ibn Makhlad (d. 213H), Talq
ibn Ghannaam an-Nakha’ee (d. 211H), Khaalid ibn Yazeed al-
Muqri (d. 215H).
In Makkah:
‘Abdullaah ibn Yazeed al-Muqri (d. 120-213H), Khallaad ibn
Yahyaa as-Sulamee (d. 213H), Hassaan ibn Hassaan al-Basree
(d. 213H), Abul-Waleed Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Azraqee
(d. 217H), ‘Abdullaah ibn az-Zubayr al-Mumaydee (d.
229H).
In al-Madeenah:
‘Abdul-’Azeez al-Uwaysee, Ayyoob ibn Sulaymaan ibn Bilaal (d.
224H), Ismaa’eel ibn Abee Uways (139-226H).
In Egypt:
Sa’eed ibn Abee Maryam (144-224H), Ahmad ibn Ishkaab (d.
218H), ‘Abdullaah ibn Yoosuf at-Tinneesee (d. 215H), Asbagh
ibn al-Faraj (d. 225H).
In Shaam:
Abul-Yamaan al-Hakam ibn Naafi’ (138-221H), Aadam ibn Abee
Iyaas al-’Asqalaanee (d. 220H), ‘Alee ibn ‘Ayyaash al Alhaanee
(d. 219H), Bishr ibn Shu’ayb al-Himsee (d. 213H), Abul-
Mugheerah ‘Abdul-Quddoos ibn al-Hajjaaj (d. 212H), Ahmad
ibn Khaalid al-Wahbee (d. 214H), Muhammad ibn Yoosuf al-
Firyaabee (120-212H) and Aboo Mushir ‘Abdul A’laa ibn Mushir
(140-218H).
His scribe, Muhammad ibn Abee Haatim, said, “I heard him say
a month before his death, ‘I have written narrations from a
thousand and eighty men, none of them was other than a
companion of hadeeth. They used to say, ‘Eemaan is speech
and action, it increases and decreases.”’
Those who narrated from him:
They were very many in number, from them:
Aboo ‘Eesaa at-Tirmidhee (d. 279H), Aboo Haatim (d. 277H),
Aboo Bakr ibn Abid-Dunyaa (d. 281H), Aboo Bakr ibn Abee
‘Aasim (d.257H), Saalih ibn Muhammad Jazarah (d. 293H),
Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullaah al-Hadramee Mutayyan (d.297H),
Muhammad ibn Ishaaq ibn Khuzaimah (d.311H), Yahyaa ibn
Muhammad ibn Saa’id (d.318H), Muhammad ibn Nasr al-
Marwazee (d.294H), Muhammad ibn Yoosuf al-Firabree
(narrator of the ‘Saheeh’ d. 301H), Aboo Bakr ibn Abee
Daawood (d. 316H), Ibraaheem ibn Ishaaq al-Harbee (d.285H),
Muslim Ibn al-Hajjaaj (d. 261H), and the last of them was al-
Husayn ibn Ismaa’eel al-Mahaamilee (d. 330H).
Imaam Bukhaaree began seeking hadeeth at the age of ten in
the year 205H. He himself said, “I compiled my book, ‘The
Saheeh,’ over sixteen years, and extracted it from six hundred
thousand hadeeth, and made it an evidence between myself
and Allaah, the Most High.”
Muhammad ibn Abee Haatim said, “I heard al-Bukhaaree say, ‘I
entered Baghdaad for the eight and last time, and each time I
would sit with Ahmad ibn Hanbal. So he said to me the final
time he bade farewell to me, ‘O Aboo ‘Abdullaah, will you leave
the knowledge and the people and go off to Khuraasaan?’ He
said, ‘I now recall his saying.”
Al-Bukhaaree said, “When I wrote ahaadeeth I would not do so
in the manner of others. When I was to write a narration from a
man I would first ask him his name, his ‘Kunyah,’ his
descent/origin, and how he had conveyed the hadeeth, (and) if
he was a person of sound comprehension. If not then I would
ask him to bring out his original manuscript copy.”
Ja’far ibn Muhammad al-Qattaan said, “I heard Muhammad ibn
Ismaa’eel say, ‘I wrote narrations from over a thousand
Shaykhs; from each of them ten thousand narrations at the
very least, and I do not have any hadeeth except that I can
remember its chain of narration.”’
Ibn ‘Adiyy said, “I heard a number of Shaykhs relating that
when Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel came to Baghdaad and the
companions of hadeeth heard of him, they gathered together
and (as a test) they took a hundred hadeeth and they mixed up
their chains of narrations and texts, giving the text of one the
chain of narration of another, and the chain of narration of one
a different text. Then they divided them between ten people for
them to ask al-Bukhaaree about them in the gathering. So the
people gathered, and one of them began by asking al-
Bukhaaree about one of his ten hadeeth, so he replied, ‘I do
not know it,’ and he asked him about another and he said, ‘I do
not know it,’ this continued until he completed the ten. So, the
people of knowledge began looking at one another and saying,
‘The man understands well.’ But the people who did not know
thought that al-Bukhaaree was incapable. Then the second
began and did the same as the first and al-Bukhaaree kept
saying, ‘I do not know it.’ Then the third and so on until all ten
had asked him, and he did not say anything more than, ‘I do
not know it.’
Then when he knew that they had finished he turned to the first
of them and said, ‘As for your first hadeeth then it should be
like this, and the second like this, and the third like this...’ right
up to the tenth, restoring each text to its true chain of
narration. He did the same with all of the others, so the people
attested to his memorization.”
Abul-Azhar said, “There were four hundred students of hadeeth
in Samarqand and they came together for a week and hoped to
find Muhammad ibn Ismaa‘eel make a mistake. So they entered
the chains of narration of Shaam upon those of ‘Iraaq, and
chains of Yemen upon those of Makkah and al-Madeenah, but
they could not find a single mistake from him in any chain of
narration or any text.”
Aboo Ja’far al-’Uqaylee said, “When al-Bukhaaree compiled the
book, ‘as-Saheeh,’ he showed it to ‘Alee ibn al-Madeenee,
Ahmad ibn Hanhal. Yahyaa ibn Ma’een and others. They
declared it to be good, and they testified that it was all
authentic — except for four ahaadeeth.” A1-’Uqaylee said, “And
the correct saying about those (four) is the saying of al-
Bukhaaree they are authentic.”
The Scholars Praise of Al Bukharee:
Nu’aym ibn Hammaad said, “Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel is the
Faqeeh of the Ummah.”
Ishaaq ibn Raahawaih said, “Write narrations from this young
man (meaning al-Bukhaaree), because if he had lived in the
time of al-Hasan the people would have had need of him due to
his knowledge of hadeeth and its understanding.”
Aboo Bakr ibn Abee Shaybah and Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullaah ibn
Numayr both said, “We have not seen anyone like Muhammad
ibn Ismaa’eel.”
Ahmad ibn Hanbal said, “Khuraasaan has not brought out the
like of Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel.”
Aboo ‘Ammaar al-Husayn ibn Huraith praised al-Bukhaaree and
said, “I am not aware that I have seen anyone the like of him,
it is as if he had been created solely for the hadeeth.”
Muhammad ibn Bashshaar said, “The great memorizers of the
world are four: Aboo Zur’ahi in Rayy, ad-Daarirnee in
Samarqand, Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel in Bukhaaraa and
Muslim in Neesaaboor.”
Ibn Khuzaymah said, “I have not seen under the sky anyone
having more knowledge of and better memorization of the
hadeeth of Allaah’s Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wasallam)
than Muhammad ibn Isrnaa’eel.”
:start:
:salams
:alhumdull
He is Muhammad Ibn Isrnaa’eel Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhaaree , Aboo ‘Abdullaah, he was born in
Shawwaal, 194H.
His Shaykh’s include:
In Balkh:
Makkee ibn Ibraaheem (126-214H).
In Marw:
‘Adnaan ibn ‘Uthmaan al-’Atakee (145-221H), ‘Alee ibn al-
Hasan ibn Shaqeeq (137-215H), Sadaqah ibn al-Fadl (c. 150-
223H).
In Neesaaboor:
Yahyaa ibn Yahyaa ibn Bakr al-Muqri (142-226H).
In Rayy:
Ibraaheem ibn Moosaa ibn Yazeed ar-Raazee (d.>230H).
In Baghdaad (at the end of 210H):
Muhammad ibn ‘Eesaa ibn at-Tabbaa (d. 224H), Suraij ibn an-
Nu’maan (d. 217H), Muhammad ibn Saabiq (d. 214H), ‘Affaan
ibn Muslim al-Baahilee (d. 220H).
In Basrah:
Aboo ‘Aasim an-Nabeel (122-212H), Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullaah
ibn al-Muthannaa al-Ansaaree (118-215H), ‘Abdur-Rahmaan
ibn Hammaad ash-Shu’aythee (d. 212H), Muhammad ibn
‘Ar’arah (d. 212H), Hajjaaj ibn Minhaal (d. 217H), Badl ibn al-
Muhabbir al-Yarboo’ee (d. 215H), ‘Abdullaah ibn Rajaa al-
Ghudaanee (d. 220H).
In Koofah:
‘Ubaydullaah ibn Moosaa (c. 120-213H), Aboo Nu’aym al-Fadl
ibn Dukayn (130-219H), Khaalid ibn Makhlad (d. 213H), Talq
ibn Ghannaam an-Nakha’ee (d. 211H), Khaalid ibn Yazeed al-
Muqri (d. 215H).
In Makkah:
‘Abdullaah ibn Yazeed al-Muqri (d. 120-213H), Khallaad ibn
Yahyaa as-Sulamee (d. 213H), Hassaan ibn Hassaan al-Basree
(d. 213H), Abul-Waleed Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Azraqee
(d. 217H), ‘Abdullaah ibn az-Zubayr al-Mumaydee (d.
229H).
In al-Madeenah:
‘Abdul-’Azeez al-Uwaysee, Ayyoob ibn Sulaymaan ibn Bilaal (d.
224H), Ismaa’eel ibn Abee Uways (139-226H).
In Egypt:
Sa’eed ibn Abee Maryam (144-224H), Ahmad ibn Ishkaab (d.
218H), ‘Abdullaah ibn Yoosuf at-Tinneesee (d. 215H), Asbagh
ibn al-Faraj (d. 225H).
In Shaam:
Abul-Yamaan al-Hakam ibn Naafi’ (138-221H), Aadam ibn Abee
Iyaas al-’Asqalaanee (d. 220H), ‘Alee ibn ‘Ayyaash al Alhaanee
(d. 219H), Bishr ibn Shu’ayb al-Himsee (d. 213H), Abul-
Mugheerah ‘Abdul-Quddoos ibn al-Hajjaaj (d. 212H), Ahmad
ibn Khaalid al-Wahbee (d. 214H), Muhammad ibn Yoosuf al-
Firyaabee (120-212H) and Aboo Mushir ‘Abdul A’laa ibn Mushir
(140-218H).
His scribe, Muhammad ibn Abee Haatim, said, “I heard him say
a month before his death, ‘I have written narrations from a
thousand and eighty men, none of them was other than a
companion of hadeeth. They used to say, ‘Eemaan is speech
and action, it increases and decreases.”’
Those who narrated from him:
They were very many in number, from them:
Aboo ‘Eesaa at-Tirmidhee (d. 279H), Aboo Haatim (d. 277H),
Aboo Bakr ibn Abid-Dunyaa (d. 281H), Aboo Bakr ibn Abee
‘Aasim (d.257H), Saalih ibn Muhammad Jazarah (d. 293H),
Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullaah al-Hadramee Mutayyan (d.297H),
Muhammad ibn Ishaaq ibn Khuzaimah (d.311H), Yahyaa ibn
Muhammad ibn Saa’id (d.318H), Muhammad ibn Nasr al-
Marwazee (d.294H), Muhammad ibn Yoosuf al-Firabree
(narrator of the ‘Saheeh’ d. 301H), Aboo Bakr ibn Abee
Daawood (d. 316H), Ibraaheem ibn Ishaaq al-Harbee (d.285H),
Muslim Ibn al-Hajjaaj (d. 261H), and the last of them was al-
Husayn ibn Ismaa’eel al-Mahaamilee (d. 330H).
Imaam Bukhaaree began seeking hadeeth at the age of ten in
the year 205H. He himself said, “I compiled my book, ‘The
Saheeh,’ over sixteen years, and extracted it from six hundred
thousand hadeeth, and made it an evidence between myself
and Allaah, the Most High.”
Muhammad ibn Abee Haatim said, “I heard al-Bukhaaree say, ‘I
entered Baghdaad for the eight and last time, and each time I
would sit with Ahmad ibn Hanbal. So he said to me the final
time he bade farewell to me, ‘O Aboo ‘Abdullaah, will you leave
the knowledge and the people and go off to Khuraasaan?’ He
said, ‘I now recall his saying.”
Al-Bukhaaree said, “When I wrote ahaadeeth I would not do so
in the manner of others. When I was to write a narration from a
man I would first ask him his name, his ‘Kunyah,’ his
descent/origin, and how he had conveyed the hadeeth, (and) if
he was a person of sound comprehension. If not then I would
ask him to bring out his original manuscript copy.”
Ja’far ibn Muhammad al-Qattaan said, “I heard Muhammad ibn
Ismaa’eel say, ‘I wrote narrations from over a thousand
Shaykhs; from each of them ten thousand narrations at the
very least, and I do not have any hadeeth except that I can
remember its chain of narration.”’
Ibn ‘Adiyy said, “I heard a number of Shaykhs relating that
when Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel came to Baghdaad and the
companions of hadeeth heard of him, they gathered together
and (as a test) they took a hundred hadeeth and they mixed up
their chains of narrations and texts, giving the text of one the
chain of narration of another, and the chain of narration of one
a different text. Then they divided them between ten people for
them to ask al-Bukhaaree about them in the gathering. So the
people gathered, and one of them began by asking al-
Bukhaaree about one of his ten hadeeth, so he replied, ‘I do
not know it,’ and he asked him about another and he said, ‘I do
not know it,’ this continued until he completed the ten. So, the
people of knowledge began looking at one another and saying,
‘The man understands well.’ But the people who did not know
thought that al-Bukhaaree was incapable. Then the second
began and did the same as the first and al-Bukhaaree kept
saying, ‘I do not know it.’ Then the third and so on until all ten
had asked him, and he did not say anything more than, ‘I do
not know it.’
Then when he knew that they had finished he turned to the first
of them and said, ‘As for your first hadeeth then it should be
like this, and the second like this, and the third like this...’ right
up to the tenth, restoring each text to its true chain of
narration. He did the same with all of the others, so the people
attested to his memorization.”
Abul-Azhar said, “There were four hundred students of hadeeth
in Samarqand and they came together for a week and hoped to
find Muhammad ibn Ismaa‘eel make a mistake. So they entered
the chains of narration of Shaam upon those of ‘Iraaq, and
chains of Yemen upon those of Makkah and al-Madeenah, but
they could not find a single mistake from him in any chain of
narration or any text.”
Aboo Ja’far al-’Uqaylee said, “When al-Bukhaaree compiled the
book, ‘as-Saheeh,’ he showed it to ‘Alee ibn al-Madeenee,
Ahmad ibn Hanhal. Yahyaa ibn Ma’een and others. They
declared it to be good, and they testified that it was all
authentic — except for four ahaadeeth.” A1-’Uqaylee said, “And
the correct saying about those (four) is the saying of al-
Bukhaaree they are authentic.”
The Scholars Praise of Al Bukharee:
Nu’aym ibn Hammaad said, “Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel is the
Faqeeh of the Ummah.”
Ishaaq ibn Raahawaih said, “Write narrations from this young
man (meaning al-Bukhaaree), because if he had lived in the
time of al-Hasan the people would have had need of him due to
his knowledge of hadeeth and its understanding.”
Aboo Bakr ibn Abee Shaybah and Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullaah ibn
Numayr both said, “We have not seen anyone like Muhammad
ibn Ismaa’eel.”
Ahmad ibn Hanbal said, “Khuraasaan has not brought out the
like of Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel.”
Aboo ‘Ammaar al-Husayn ibn Huraith praised al-Bukhaaree and
said, “I am not aware that I have seen anyone the like of him,
it is as if he had been created solely for the hadeeth.”
Muhammad ibn Bashshaar said, “The great memorizers of the
world are four: Aboo Zur’ahi in Rayy, ad-Daarirnee in
Samarqand, Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel in Bukhaaraa and
Muslim in Neesaaboor.”
Ibn Khuzaymah said, “I have not seen under the sky anyone
having more knowledge of and better memorization of the
hadeeth of Allaah’s Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wasallam)
than Muhammad ibn Isrnaa’eel.”