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1,000 VISITORS VISIT IMAM BUKHARI'S GRAVE DAILY
From Jamaluddin Muhammad
SAMARKAND (Uzbekistan), Nov 15 (Bernama) -- About 1,000 visitors, including
non-Muslims, from all over the world visit hadith scholar Imam Al-Bukhari's
mausoleum in Khartang village here every day.
According to local historian Abdul Ghani Mukmin, the present four-side
arch-shaped building was constructed on top of the original grave of Imam
Al-Bukhari by the Uzbekistan government in 1997 while the Iranian government
financed the project.
It was built 1,225 years after the imam's death, he said at the Imam
Al-Bukhari complex, here.
It was built after Uzbekistan gained independence from the Soviet Union in
1991 as praying in mosques and visiting graveyards were prohibited in the past.
The building was built with Uzbekistan architecture and officially opened
on
Oct 23, 1998. Visitors were only allowed to visit the building while the
original grave beneath the building could only be accessed through a special
door with the permision of the Al-Bukhari complex authority, he
said.
The complex comprises the grave, Al-Bukhari mosque and a museum showcasing
Quran from some Muslim countries.
Imam Al-Bukhari's full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ismail al
Bukhari.
He was born in 194 Hijrah or 810AD in Poyikent village of Bukhara.
Abdul Ghani said that according to history, Imam Al-Bukhari was born blind
but recovered his vision he was two years old.
By six years old, he had memorised the Quran and stayed in Arabia after
performing the pilgrimage when he was 16 years to gather the hadith of the
Prophet Muhammad and return them to original variants.
The hadith are the words and deeds of Prophet Muhammad, one of the
important sources of Islamic teaching and guidance apart from the Quran.
Imam Bukhari spent 40 years of his life gathering the hadith and writing
them only after defining the chain of hadith tellers to verify the
hadith.
He then returned to Bukhara and taught in the madrasah.
"He was asked to leave Bukhara by the then royal family for refusing to
come to the palace and teach the royal children as he firmly believed that no
one should go for giving knowledge and the learner must go for the knowledge,"
Abdul Ghani quoted history.
Imam Bukhari then left for Khartang village here where he died in 256
Hijrah or 870AD.
"They (the villagers) say that after putting him in the grave in Khartang
village, the odour of musk lingered for some time and at night there were lights
around his grave," said the historian.
-- BERNAMA
SAMARKAND (Uzbekistan), Nov 15 (Bernama) -- About 1,000 visitors, including
non-Muslims, from all over the world visit hadith scholar Imam Al-Bukhari's
mausoleum in Khartang village here every day.
According to local historian Abdul Ghani Mukmin, the present four-side
arch-shaped building was constructed on top of the original grave of Imam
Al-Bukhari by the Uzbekistan government in 1997 while the Iranian government
financed the project.
It was built 1,225 years after the imam's death, he said at the Imam
Al-Bukhari complex, here.
It was built after Uzbekistan gained independence from the Soviet Union in
1991 as praying in mosques and visiting graveyards were prohibited in the past.
The building was built with Uzbekistan architecture and officially opened
on
Oct 23, 1998. Visitors were only allowed to visit the building while the
original grave beneath the building could only be accessed through a special
door with the permision of the Al-Bukhari complex authority, he
said.
The complex comprises the grave, Al-Bukhari mosque and a museum showcasing
Quran from some Muslim countries.
Imam Al-Bukhari's full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ismail al
Bukhari.
He was born in 194 Hijrah or 810AD in Poyikent village of Bukhara.
Abdul Ghani said that according to history, Imam Al-Bukhari was born blind
but recovered his vision he was two years old.
By six years old, he had memorised the Quran and stayed in Arabia after
performing the pilgrimage when he was 16 years to gather the hadith of the
Prophet Muhammad and return them to original variants.
The hadith are the words and deeds of Prophet Muhammad, one of the
important sources of Islamic teaching and guidance apart from the Quran.
Imam Bukhari spent 40 years of his life gathering the hadith and writing
them only after defining the chain of hadith tellers to verify the
hadith.
He then returned to Bukhara and taught in the madrasah.
"He was asked to leave Bukhara by the then royal family for refusing to
come to the palace and teach the royal children as he firmly believed that no
one should go for giving knowledge and the learner must go for the knowledge,"
Abdul Ghani quoted history.
Imam Bukhari then left for Khartang village here where he died in 256
Hijrah or 870AD.
"They (the villagers) say that after putting him in the grave in Khartang
village, the odour of musk lingered for some time and at night there were lights
around his grave," said the historian.
-- BERNAMA
