THE STORY OF IMAM AL BUKHARI (PART 2)

 

 

THE STORY OF IMAM AL BUKHARI

 

[ The power of a mother's love and the extraordinary intelligence of al Imam Al Bukhari]

 

His father's name was Ismail bin Ibrahim bin al-Mughirah, who was a scholar of hadith experts.
However, since Bukhari was little his father had died and left knowledge for his son.

 

In an orphaned state, Imam Al Bukhari was then raised by his mother with love.

 

Imam Al Bukhari once experienced pain in his eyes when he was a child. Apparently, the illness caused him to go blind.

 

Facing this, Imam Al Bukhari's mother always prayed all night and day, with full honesty and tears, and always had good thoughts of Allah.
She did not give up and kept complaining to Allah about her son's blindness.

 

Until one night, when Bukhari's mother was asleep in her sleep, she dreamed of seeing Prophet Ibrahim AS who said to her.

 

"O woman, indeed Allah has restored your son's sight, because of your many cries or your many prayers."

 

After that, with the permission of Allah Imam Al Bukhari was finally able to see.

 

When Allah had restored Bukhari's vision, the mother tried hard to teach her son to travel around Islamic lands in search of the Prophet's hadiths with strong memorization.

 

⭐ Imam Bukhari was given extraordinary intelligence by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'alla.

 

It was Imam Al Bukhari who became the teacher of the teachers and retainer of the hadith experts.

 

Imam Bukhari's full name:

 

Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin Al-Mughirah bin Bardizbah Al-Bukhari.

 

Born in Bukhara, a city in Uzbekistan on 13 Shawwal 194 Hijri or 21 July 810 AD.

 

Because he came from Bukhara, he was nicknamed Imam Al Bukhari.

 

🗂 Imam Al Bukhari once said 2 things...

 

🖋 "I was inspired to easily memorize hadith, when I was still in Kuttab (a place to learn to read and write), when I was 10 years old or less".

 

🖋 "I will not narrate the hadith that I received from friends and tabi'in, until I know the date of birth, day of death and place of residence.

 

I also will not narrate the mauquf hadith from Companions and Tabi'in, unless there is a basis that I know from the Book of Allah (Al Qur'an) and the sunnah of the Prophet Shallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam."

 

📋 In a scientific and practical trip for 16 years, Imam Bukhari met and studied directly with 4000 teachers .

 

With patience in ascertaining the hadith of the noble Prophet, the long journey finally made Imam Al Bukhari able to collect at least 600,000 hadiths.
Of these, 300,000 of them are memorized.

 

The memorized hadiths consist of 200,000 invalid hadiths and 100,000 authentic hadiths

 

📗 Imam Bukhari has written quite a lot, including:
Al-Jami' Ash-Sahih.

 

This work is called by the name of Al-Jami 'Ash-Sahih Al-Musnad min Hadith Rasulullah SAW sunnatihi wa Ayyamihi.

 

Sometimes called Al-Jami' Al-Musnad Al Shahih Al-Mukhtashr min Umar Rasulullah wa Sunanih wa Ayyamihi or commonly called "Sahih Al Bukhari".

 

His book, Sahih Al-Bukhari is also the most authentic book after the Qur'an.

 

Namely a collection of authentic hadith that he prepared for 16 years.

 

☀ Al-Allamah Al-Aini Al-Hanafi said,

 

"Imam Al Bukhari is a hafiz, intelligent, clever and careful.

 

He has the ability to explain observantly, the ability to remember it is well known and witnessed by reliable scholars."

 

☀ Imam Muslim once met Imam al-Bukhari, then he kissed his forehead and said,

 

"Let me kiss your feet, O ustaz of ustaz, leaders of hadith experts, and doctors in analyzing defects in hadith."

 

📙 Imam Bukhari died at the age of 62 years less than 13 days on Friday night, coinciding with the night of Eid al-Fitr.

 

He was buried after the midday prayer in 256 Hijri in the village of Khartank which is located close to Samarkand, which is now known as Uzbekistan.