Ismail ibn Ibrahim explained

Ismail ibn Ibrahim
Birth Date:	December 9, 756 CE
Death Date:	December 26, 810 CE (aged 54)
Children:	Imam Bukhari

Ismail Ibn Ibrahim (Arabic: اسماعيل بن ابراهيم) (756  - 810) was most notable for being the father of Imam Bukhari. Ismail ibn Ibrahim died in 810, when Imam Bukhari was only an infant, not yet 1 year old.

Biography

Ancestry

Ismail's ancestry can be traced to a farmer named Bardizbah who lived in the vicinity of Bukhara. Bardizbah's had a son named al-Mugheerah who accepted Islam.^{[1] [2]}

Mugheerah eventually had a son named Ibraaheem, the father of Ismail Ibn Ibrahim.

Life

Ismail 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.

Ismael also married and had two sons, Ahmad and Muhammad. Muhammad would later be known as Imam Bukhari, the most prominent Sunni hadith collector.

Death

When Imam Bukhari was only an infant, Ismail died at the age of 54. He left a considerable fortune to his widow and two sons.

References

• fatwa-online.com

Notes and References

1. Book: Khan, Muhammad Mojlum. The Muslim 100 The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History. 50. Kube Publishing Limited. 2009. 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..
2. Book: Zubair Siddiqi, Muhammad. Hadith for Beginners An Introduction to Major Hadith Works and Their Compilers. 111. Goodword Books. 2001. 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 [...].