Al-Bukhari's testimony to al-Tirmidhi: 'I benefited from you more than you benefited from me', c. 245/860

Name: Al-Bukhari's testimony to al-Tirmidhi: 'I benefited from you more than you benefited from me', c. 245/860
Location: خراسان

شهادة البخاري للترمذي: «ما انتفعتُ بك أكثرُ مما انتفعتَ بي»، نحو ٢٤٥هـ

c. 860 CE · c. 245 AH

خراسان

Al-Tirmidhi apprenticed himself to al-Bukhari, who trained him and from whom he took the principles of hadith criticism and fiqh until he stood out among his peers; al-Bukhari himself testified to him, saying 'I benefited from you more than you benefited from me', and he was counted al-Bukhari's successor in Khurasan for knowledge, memory and scrupulosity ¹, numbering among his pupils ².

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

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Al-Tirmidhi apprenticed himself to al-Bukhari, who trained him and from whom he took the principles of hadith criticism and fiqh until he stood out among his peers and distinguished himself in learning; al-Bukhari himself testified to this when he told him: 'I benefited from you more than you benefited from me' ¹.

Al-Bukhari's successor in Khurasan

Al-Tirmidhi was counted al-Bukhari's successor in Khurasan for knowledge, memory and scrupulosity ¹, numbering among al-Bukhari's pupils ².

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Had participant: Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa· Al Bukhari
Occurred at: خراسان
During the reign of: al-Mutawakkil ala Allah

People and things also explored

Al-Tirmidhi hears the masters of Marw: Mahmud ibn Ghaylan, Ali ibn Hujr and Abd ibn Humayd, c. 240/854· Al-Tirmidhi hears Qutayba ibn Sa'id, before 240/854· Al-Tirmidhi's hadith journeys through the lands of Khurasan, Iraq and the Hijaz, c. 230/845· Muwatta 773· Muwatta 890· al-Darimi· علي بن الجهم· Al Bukhari

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 451
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 10 p. 579

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Al-Tirmidhi hears the masters of Marw: Mahmud ibn Ghaylan, Ali ibn Hujr and Abd ibn Humayd, c. 240/854

Three of Marw's traditionists rank among the eight shaykhs al-Tirmidhi drew on most heavily in his Sunan: Mahmud ibn Ghaylan al-Adawi, Abu Ahmad al-Marwazi (d. 239), Ali ibn Hujr ibn Iyas al-Sa'di, Abu al-Hasan al-Marwazi (d. 244), from whom the two Shaykhs and al-Nasa'i also narrated, and Abd ibn Humayd ibn Nasr al-Kissi, Abu Muhammad al-Marwazi, from whom he narrated most profusely in the Tafsir book of his Sunan.