al Bukhari Memorial Museum

                          al Bukhari Memorial

1st of June.
Children Protection Day🥳
But we are in the memorial museum of al Bukhari which is located in the park😁😁

Our beautiful guide Aziza told us about the origin of this hadith scholar. His museum is in Bukhara but his burial place is in Samarkand. The museum itself was built in the shape of a crescent and consists of two floors. On the first upper floor there are instruments and sources of literature and art of that time.

And on the second lower floor there are things and accessories of the imam: clothes, rosaries, shoes, books and most importantly there is his ashes that were brought from his own grave.

His full name is Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma‘il ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mughira ibn Bardizbah al-Jufi al-Bukhari. He was born on Friday, Shawwal 13, 194 AH (July 20, 810) in Bukhara. Imam al-Bukhari was born into a family of immigrants from Persia; ancestors were Zoroastrians; great-grandfather (al-Mughira) converted to Islam "from the hands" of the ruler of Bukhara, Yaman al-Jufi Bukhari. His father, Isma'il, was a companion of Malik ibn Anas and a very learned man; studied hadith from scholars such as Mubarak. He died when Muhammad was still a child, and some of his hadith books were handed down to his son.

At the age of 7, he memorized the entire Quran, and at the age of 10, he knew several thousand hadiths by heart. In Bukhara, he studied hadith from such scholars as Muhammad ibn Salam al-Bikendi and Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Musnadi. He attracted attention when he was eleven years old when he corrected some of the mistakes made by his teacher Dahili while reciting hadith.

Imam al-Bukhari often fell victim to confusion and conspiracies. Because of this, he was expelled from Bukhara four times. The first time he was expelled in the early period was for issuing a fatwa, according to which the adoption relationship is valid even if you drink goat's or mutton's milk. There are many opinions about the reliability of this fact. The second time he was expelled from Nishapur because he claimed that faith (iman) was not created. For the third time at one of the meetings of the imam, someone asked him whether the Speech of Allah was created or not. Imam al-Bukhari at first tried to avoid a direct answer, but the questioner insisted on his own, and as a result, the imam said: "The speech of Allah is not created, but our reading of it is created." And the people did not fully understand Imam al-Bukhari and accused the Imam of introducing an "innovation". From Nishapur he went to Merv, and then from Merv he moved to Bukhara.

Although Bukhari freely passed on what he knew to anyone who wanted to learn from him, he stayed away from statesmen and considered visiting their palaces an act degrading to science. Once the emir of Bukhara, Khalid Zuhri, asked him to teach his children, but the imam refused, and the emir persuaded some people, and they began to speak ill of the imam's beliefs. This forced him to leave Bukhara for the fourth time and go to relatives in the city of Khartang (near Samarkand). In this city, the imam died in 870 at the age of 60.