Al-Bukhari's ordeal at Nishapur and his departure for Bukhara, c. 250/864

محنة البخاري بنيسابور ورحيله إلى بخارى، نحو ٢٥٠هـ

c. 864 CE · c. 250 AH

Nishapur

Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli grew jealous of him as crowds gathered at his session, and proclaimed that whoever attended al-Bukhari's session should not attend his; al-Bukhari was attacked for saying that his own recitation of the Qur'an was created — though he held the Qur'an itself to be the uncreated word of God — and he left Nishapur for Bukhara 1 2.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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Persia & Central Asia
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850860870880 c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation

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Nishapur

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Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli grew jealous of him as crowds gathered at his session, and proclaimed that whoever attended al-Bukhari's session should not attend his; al-Bukhari was attacked for saying that his own recitation of the Qur'an was created — though he held the Qur'an itself to be the uncreated word of God — and he left Nishapur for Bukhara 1 2.

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Al Bukhari
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Nishapur

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«Muhammad ibn Isma'il is the most learned man to enter Nishapur», 247/861· The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Qasr al-Shadiyakh· Abu Dawud in Khurasan: Qutayba and Ibn Rahwayh, before 240/854· Al-Hakim begins his compilations, 337/948· Al-Sibghi entrusts Dar al-Sunna to al-Hakim, 342/953· Death of al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, 3 Safar 405/1014

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1360
  2. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 12-13
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«Muhammad ibn Isma'il is the most learned man to enter Nishapur», 247/861

In 247 it was said: Muhammad ibn Isma'il is the most learned man to enter Nishapur; his stays there were celebrated — when he arrived, four thousand men on horses received him, not counting those on mules and donkeys or on foot, and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj came to him, kissed him between the eyes and said: let me kiss your feet, master of masters, chief of the traditionists and physician of hadith in its defects.