{"id":18506,"date":"2021-10-21T06:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T04:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=18506"},"modified":"2021-10-21T06:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T04:45:03","slug":"imaam-bukhaari-rahimahullah-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=18506","title":{"rendered":"Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah) \u2013 Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Acquiring the Knowledge of Hadith from a Young Age<\/strong><\/p>\n

Muhammed bin Abi Haatim (rahimahullah) narrates the following:<\/p>\n

I once asked Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah), \u201cHow did you commence memorizing Hadith?\u201d Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah) replied, \u201cI was inspired by Allah Ta\u2018ala to commence memorizing the blessed Ahaadith of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) when I started acquiring \u2018ilm at the elementary madrasah.\u201d I asked him, \u201cWhat was your age at the time?\u201d He replied, \u201cI was ten years old, or perhaps even younger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah) then said, \u201cAfter turning ten, I left the elementary madrasah. I then commenced going to Imaam Daakhili (rahimahullah) and other Muhadditheen in order to learn Hadith.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day, while Imaam Daakhili (rahimahullah) was narrating Ahaadith to his students, he narrated the following chain, \u2018Sufyaan, from Abu Zubair, from Ebrahim.\u2019 Hearing this, I respectfully said to him, \u2018O Ustaad! Abu Zubair is not among the students of Ebrahim and has not narrated Hadith from him.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I said this, Imaam Daakhili (rahimahullah) reproached me (as he thought that I was mistaken). However, I respectfully said to him, \u2018If you still have your original notes in which you recorded this Hadith, then please refer to them and verify the chain of this Hadith.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cImaam Daakhili (rahimahullah) agreed to do so. He thus entered his home, referred to his notes, and then returned. On returning, he asked me, \u201cO youngster! Tell me, what is the correct version of the chain of narrators for this Hadith?\u201d I answered, \u201cThe person narrating from Ebrahim is not Abu Zubair. Rather, it is Zubair bin \u2018Adiyy.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cImaam Daakhili (rahimahullah) immediately said to me, \u201cYou are correct.\u201d He then took my pen and used it to correct the mistake in his kitaab.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

When Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah) mentioned this incident, then one of the people in his gathering asked him, \u201cWhat was your age at the time of this incident, when you corrected the mistake in the kitaab of Imaam Daakhili (rahimahullah)?\u201d Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah) replied, \u201cI was eleven years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah) then continued and said, \u201cWhen I turned sixteen, I memorized the kitaabs of Hazrat \u2018Abdullah bin Mubaarak (rahimahullah) and Imaam Wakee\u2019 (rahimahullah) and became acquainted with their mazhabs. Thereafter, I traveled with my mother and my brother, Ahmed, to Makkah Mukarramah to perform Haj. After we completed our Haj, my brother returned while I remained in Makkah Mukaramah in order to learn Hadith.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I turned eighteen, I commenced compiling a kitaab on the virtues and sayings of the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) and Taabi\u2018een (rahimahumullah). That was during the era of \u2018Ubaidullah bin Moosa. At that time, I also compiled a kitaab on Taareekh (history). I would write this kitaab at the Rowdhah Mubaarak (blessed grave of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam)) on the nights when there was sufficient moonlight for me to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah) also mentioned, \u201cThere is no person whose name is recorded in my kitaab of Taareekh, except that I have knowledge of some incident regarding him. However, I did not include all these incidents in the kitaab as I did not want the kitaab to become too lengthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Tahzeeb-ul-Kamaal 24\/439-440)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acquiring the Knowledge of Hadith from a Young Age Muhammed bin Abi Haatim (rahimahullah) narrates the following: I once asked Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah), \u201cHow did you commence memorizing Hadith?\u201d Imaam Bukhaari (rahimahullah) replied, \u201cI was inspired by Allah Ta\u2018ala to commence memorizing the blessed Ahaadith of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) when I started acquiring \u2018ilm …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,796,797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-imaam-bukhaari-rahimahullah","category-islamic-history","category-muhadditheen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18508,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions\/18508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}