Al-Bukhari's pilgrimage and his stay in the Hijaz seeking hadith, 210/825

حج البخاري وتخلّفه بالحجاز في طلب الحديث، ٢١٠هـ

825 CE · 210 AH

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Al-Bukhari set out in 210 after he had heard much in his own town from Muhammad ibn Salam al-Baykandi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Baykandi, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Musnadi, Ibrahim ibn al-Ash'ath and others 1; when he reached sixteen, having already memorised the works of Ibn al-Mubarak, he made the pilgrimage with his mother and his brother, and when they returned he remained behind seeking hadith 2 3.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate

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Mecca

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Al-Bukhari set out in 210 after he had heard much in his own town from Muhammad ibn Salam al-Baykandi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Baykandi, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Musnadi, Ibrahim ibn al-Ash'ath and others 1; when he reached sixteen, having already memorised the works of Ibn al-Mubarak, he made the pilgrimage with his mother and his brother, and when they returned he remained behind seeking hadith 2 3.

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Had participant
Al Bukhari
Occurred at
Mecca

People and things also explored

Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites· The offices of Quraysh at Mecca· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Dawud's first journey: Baghdad, Basra and Mecca, 220/835· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 3
  2. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 5
  3. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1360
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Dar al-Nadwa

The council house founded by Qusayy on the north side of the mosque of the Kaaba, with its door into the mosque; Quraysh deliberated its grave matters and married off its daughters there.