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Ameerul Mumineen Fil Hadith

Imam Muhammad Bin Ismail Bukhari

(Mataa e Waqt Aur Kaarvaan e Ilm by Ibnul Hasan Abbasi, p. 104-137)Muhammad Bin Ismail Bin Ibrahim Bin Mugheera Bin Bardizba Al Ju'fee Al

Bukhari Al Yamaani:Ismail (father of Imam Bukhari) was a renowned scholar and muhaddith

(scholar of Hadith). Imam Bukhari's great grandfather, Mugheera, had accepted Islam

at the hands of Yamaan Ju'fee, the Governor of Bukhara, because of which he also got

the title of Ju'fee. Ismial's father was Ibrahim about which history is completely silent.

Ismail was a student of the

legendary Hammad Bin Zaid and the

genius of his age, Imam Malik. He also

narrates some hadiths from them. In thebookTabaqaat e Kubra, Tajuddin Subuki writes about him:

"Ismail was one of the pious scholars of his days. He had the distinction of hearinghadiths from Imam Malik. He got to visit Hammad Bin Zaid and had the the company of

Abdullah Bin Mubarak. Ahamd Bin Hafs narrates that when he visited Ismail at the time of thelatter's death, he said, "Of all my property, there is not a single dubious dirham (rupee)." (Hemeant that not the smallest part of his wealth was haraam.)"

On Friday, 13 Shawwal 94 AH, a baby was born in Ismail's house. He was

named MUHAMMAD. Who could have imagined that this infant would some day

become that fragrant flower of the Islamic garden whose sweet scent will continue for

centuries, and the coarsest curtains of the age would be unable to obstruct his famefrom spreading far and wide.

A Brief History of Bukhara

Bukhara (3943' N, 6438' E) was one of the most beautiful cities of

Mawaraun Nahr region situated at a height of 722 feet above the sea level. It covered

an area of 205 000 square kilometre. Before the conquests of Alexander of

Macedonia, Bukhara was under the control of the Persian Empire. In those days it was

called Saghdiyan. When Alexander conquered the cities of Persia, Bukhara also cameunder his control. Through him, the city got annexed (included) to the Greek empire.

Then, when the Islamic army got up to hoist God's flag in every nook and corner ofthe earth, it conquered Bukhara too.

During the days of Hazrat Muaviya Bin Abu Sufyan's caliphate, Obaidullah

Bin Ziyad Bin Abi was made the governor of the Khurasan state lying near Bukhara

in 53 A.H. In 54 A.H. he marched towards Bukhara and conquered Nasf and Baikand

on the way. In those days, Bukhara wa being ruled by a woman named "Khatoon".

The woman petitioned the Turks to help her against the Muslims. But the valiant

Muslims defeated the combined army of Bukhara and the Turks. The ruler Khatoon

agreed to pay an annual tribute of one hundred thousand dirhams. In 55 A.H., Hazrat

Muaviya appointed Saeed Bin Usman as the governor of Khurasan. History then fallssilent about Bukhara up to 87 A.H. In that year, the great commander of Islamic

victory procession, Qutaiba Bin Muslim turned his attention towards this regionconquering many cities and states including Bukhara. Then the days of Changez

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Khan's savagery came and like many other bustling cities, Bukhara too died. On 4 Zul

Hajja 616 A.H. (10 Feb 1220 Christian Era), Bukhara was laid to ruins.

A few centuries later, history took another turn when the entire tribe ofChangez Khan, the Tatars after having vanquished and humiliated the great

Abbasid Caliph whose throne was at Baghdad, and after conquering most of the

Islamic states and provinces

meekly submitted before the spiritual might of Islam.The Tatar rulers converted en masse to the religion and way of life of their lowly

subjects the Muslims. Now, they were the great defenders of Islam for several

centuries to come. In 1370 C.E. Taimur Lang, the great Islamic conqueror of the

Changezi tribe, won Bukhara for Islam. Thus Bukhara once again flourished as a

great centre of Islamic way of life and culture. In 1498 C.E., Uzbeks capturedBukhara, dethroning the Taimur dynasty. The Russians enslaved Bukhara in 1873

C.E. When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, Bukhara became a part of thenewly freed country, Uzbekistan. Though the stains of Communism have not yet

disappeared from Bukhara, it holds great hope of an Islamic future. What is needed issacrifice, devotion and dedication by Islamic preachers. The land of great muhaddith

Abu Zakariya Abdur Raheem Bin Ahmed (d. 461 A.H.) and famous philosopher IbnSaina (d. 428 A.H.) eagerly waits to get a taste of sublime humanity and return to its

glorious Islamic roots.

Imam Bukhari's Education