البخاري, محمد بن اسماعيل بن ابراهيم بن المغيرة بن بردزبه ابو عبد الله الجعفي
Alessandro Gori
Names
البخاري, محمد بن اسماعيل بن ابراهيم بن المغيرة بن بردزبه ابو عبد الله الجعفي al-Buḫārī, Muḥammad b. Ismāʻīl b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Muġīra b. Bardizbah Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ǧuʻfī
Period of Activity
3rd/9th century (b. 194/810, d. 256/870)One of the most important traditionists and author of one of the 6 canonical compilations of ḥadīṯ. He began to learn traditions by heart at the age of ten. He had a remarkable memory, and companions of his are said to have corrected traditions they had written down from what he recited by heart. At the age of sixteen he made the Pilgrimage to Mecca with his mother and his brother, and when they returned he remained for a time in the Ḥiǧāz. He travelled widely in search of traditions, visiting the main centres from Ḫurāsān to Egypt, and claimed to have heard traditions from over 1000 šayḫs.
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- البخاري, محمد بن اسماعيل بن ابراهيم بن المغيرة بن بردزبه ابو عبد الله الجعفي ar
Dates
Death: 256
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Brockelmann, Carl 1937. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Erster Supplementband (Leiden: Brill, 1937). page 260-265
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Brockelmann, Carl 1898. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Band 1 (Weimar: Felber, 1898). page 157-160
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D. B. Macdonald n.d. Encyclopaedia of Islam, II Edition, Online, ed. P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs (Leiden: Brill, ). page <http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-bukhari-muhammad-b-ismail-SIM_1510>
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