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Khartank

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Samarqand

Khartank: a village of Samarkand about two parasangs (roughly three miles) from the city, where Imam Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari lodged with relatives at the end of his life; he died there on the night of the festival, the first of Shawwal 256/870, and was buried there, and his grave became a place of pilgrimage where rain was invoked 1 2.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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Khartank: a village of Samarkand about two parasangs away — roughly three miles — where Imam al-Bukhari lodged with relatives at the end of his life; he died there and was buried there on the night of the festival, the first night of Shawwal 256 3.

At his grave

When rain failed at Samarkand in the year 464, the qadi and the people went out to al-Bukhari's grave and prayed for rain there; the sky was released with heavy water, and the people stayed at Khartank seven days unable to reach Samarkand for the abundance of rain 4.

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Al Bukhari
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Al-Bukhari expelled from Bukhara and settles at Khartank, 256/870· Death of Imam al-Bukhari at Khartank, on the festival night of 1 Shawwal 256/31 August 870· The people of Samarkand pray for rain at al-Bukhari's grave in Khartank, 464/1072
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Samarqand

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Al Bukhari· Al-Bukhari expelled from Bukhara and settles at Khartank, 256/870· Death of Imam al-Bukhari at Khartank, on the festival night of 1 Shawwal 256/31 August 870· Birth of Imam al-Bukhari at Bukhara, Shawwal 194/810· Al-Bukhari's first hearing of hadith at Bukhara, 205/820· «Muhammad ibn Isma'il is the most learned man to enter Nishapur», 247/861· Al-Bukhari's pilgrimage and his stay in the Hijaz seeking hadith, 210/825· Al-Bukhari's ordeal at Nishapur and his departure for Bukhara, c. 250/864

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 14-15
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1360
  3. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 14
  4. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.2 p. 15
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Al Bukhari

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mughira ibn Bardizba al-Ju'fi al-Bukhari, the commander of the faithful in hadith; among the trustworthy masters of the traditionists, author of the Great, Middle and Lesser Tarikhs, the Asma' wal-Kuna, the Du'afa', the Sahih, the Sunan in fiqh, the Adab, Khalq Af'al al-Ibad and al-Qira'a khalf al-Imam. Born at Bukhara in Shawwal 194 and reared an orphan, he first heard hadith in 205, set out in 210 making the pilgrimage with his mother and brother and staying behind in the Hijaz, travelled the lands from Khurasan to Egypt hearing more than a thousand shaykhs, and drew his Sahih out of some 600,000 hadiths over sixteen years; in 247 it was said he was the most learned man to enter Nishapur. In his last days al-Dhuhli's envy drove him from Nishapur to Bukhara, and from Bukhara he was expelled to Khartank near Samarkand, dying there on the festival night, first of Shawwal 256.