Isma'il ibn Ibrahim

Isma'il ibn Ibrahim
Isma'il ibn Ibrahim
Born	December 9, 756 CE
Died	December 26, 810 CE (aged 54)
Children	Al-Bukhari

Isma'il ibn Ibrahim (Arabic: اسماعيل بن ابراهيم, romanized: Ismāʿīl ibn ʾIbrāhīm; 756 – 810) was a Sunni Islamic scholar. He was the father of the prominent hadith scholar al-Bukhari. Isma'il ibn Ibrahim died in 810, when Imam Bukhari was only an infant, not yet 1 year old.

Biography edit

Isma'il's ancestry can be traced to a farmer named Bardizbah who lived in the vicinity of Bukhara. Bardizbah's had a son named al-Mughira who accepted Islam.^[1]^[2] Al-Mughira eventually had a son named Ibrahim, the father of Isma'il ibn Ibrahim.

Isma'il ibn Ibrahim became a known scholar of hadith, praised by Muslims as a man of great piety and sound reputation. Scrupulous in his habits, he is said to have mentioned on his deathbed that in all he possessed there was not a penny which had not been earned by his own honest labour.

Isma'il also married and had two sons, Ahmad and Muhammad. Muhammad would later be known as al-Bukhari, the most prominent Sunni hadith collector. When al-Bukhari was only an infant, Isma'il died at the age of 54. He left a considerable fortune to his widow and two sons.

References edit

^ Khan, Muhammad Mojlum (2009). The Muslim 100 The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History. Kube Publishing Limited. p. 50. ISBN 9781847740298. Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Mughirah ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari was born in Bukhara, in Muslim Central Asia. Of Persian origin, al-Bukhari's ancestors were farmers who were taken captives during the Muslim conquest of that region in the early days of Islam.
^ Zubair Siddiqi, Muhammad (2001). Hadith for Beginners An Introduction to Major Hadith Works and Their Compilers. Goodword Books. p. 111. ISBN 9788187570165. Bardizbah, was a cultivator in the vicinity of Bukhara, where he was made a slave at the time of the Muslim conquest. Mughira, the son of Bardizbah, accepted Islam at the hand of al-Yaman al-Ju'fi, the Muslim governor of [...]

[khan-1] Khan, Muhammad Mojlum (2009). The Muslim 100 The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History. Kube Publishing Limited. p. 50. ISBN 9781847740298. Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Mughirah ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari was born in Bukhara, in Muslim Central Asia. Of Persian origin, al-Bukhari's ancestors were farmers who were taken captives during the Muslim conquest of that region in the early days of Islam.

[goodwork-2] Zubair Siddiqi, Muhammad (2001). Hadith for Beginners An Introduction to Major Hadith Works and Their Compilers. Goodword Books. p. 111. ISBN 9788187570165. Bardizbah, was a cultivator in the vicinity of Bukhara, where he was made a slave at the time of the Muslim conquest. Mughira, the son of Bardizbah, accepted Islam at the hand of al-Yaman al-Ju'fi, the Muslim governor of [...]

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