# Bukhari's persecution and why his book reaches us through one transmitter

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/10/
- Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (58:29–1:02:26)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=3509s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/

**Topics:** Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Scholars and imams of the past; Creed and the schools of theology

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Bukhari was persecuted and boycotted in his last years by Hanafis and Hanbali literalists, so few transmitted his book and it reaches us through Farabri alone. The same two groups now insist it reaches us with certainty.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says Bukhari's persecution by the Hanafis and the Hanbali literalists in his last years is why his book reaches us through a single transmitter, and that the same two groups now insist it reaches us with certainty.

**Evidence, his words at 1:01:17:** “the book doesn't reach us with certainty because of the suffering inflicted on him by the hanafi's and the humblings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=3677s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth says Imam Bukhari, whom he respects for his effort, was ostracised and mentally tortured in the last four or five years of his life, driven out of Bukhara and refused entry to towns. He says the accusation was deviant belief over whether the written Quran is created, a debate he calls meaningless, and that the two groups behind the campaign were the Hanafis, because Bukhari attacked Abu Hanifa in his book, and the proto-Wahhabi literalists, the ancestors of today's Hanbalis. He points to the irony that these same two groups now semi-worship the book and insist it reaches us with certainty, when their persecution is the reason it does not: because Bukhari stopped teaching and his name became toxic, scholars including Imam Muslim boycotted him and stopped transmitting from him, so the Sahih reaches us only through Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Farabri.

## Sources and names cited

- Imam al-Bukhari
- Abu Hanifa
- Imam Muslim
- Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Farabri

## Transcript (machine tier, 58:29–1:02:26)

[58:06] transmits from some of the scholars like ibn he and others that that they openly admitted later on if they desired something had ethan look that they actually used to make up hadith and duh that's no surprise i mean i don't know why they're so shocked about that if if i if i if i can justify murder lying is a piece of cake so that is to show that first of all even imam buhari himself yes his standard did beat the other

[58:44] standards i accept that the other people he was more strict than them but even he had many shortcomings in his own theory because he would allow people like this he would take generations he would do stuff like this but he is not the key problem imam bukhari i respect he tried hard he did kind of put together a huge uh i mean he had this effort but what happens towards the end of his life he is tortured uh tortured at least mentally he's kind of chucked out of his his his he's ostracized he has to leave home

[59:21] and the irony is that people claimed he was a deviant so they said he had deviant beliefs like he believed the quran wasn't creative and that debate is meaningless by the way it doesn't even mean anything but they said that he believed that the actual mushaf the actual book is created which it is so i don't know but this debate is meaningless anyway but they use that as an excuse to really have a go at him and not just have a goal but to ostracize him boycott him and blacklist him so he was chucked out of his hometown bukhara and the two main groups who hated on him were the hanafis the hanafi method because he attacked

[1:00:00] imam abu hanifa in his book and in several of his teachings he was very critical of imam abu hanifah and secondly the proto-wahhabis so the hambulis today are basically humbling that they're these kind of literalists who take the hadith literally that god has certain body parts and he does this and he does that these people are like basically they absolute literally so they used to believe even the book of the quran the actual book is uncreated which makes zero sense but they're not about making sense so they hated on him and the hanafi's hated on him

[1:00:37] and they are the two groups that did the were behind the propaganda for him suffering and he suffered for the last four or five years of his life and he just you know he was out and and immensely especially in the last couple of years he was out just wondering people wouldn't even allow him into towns he would have to wait at the gate and sometimes they would reject him sometimes they would allow him in and then cause a stir now why is this important the irony by the way is these are the same two groups today trying to divine you know like almost semi-worship his book and they want to establish his book with certainty the same two groups who led to his persecution now had have they not persecuted him

[1:01:17] then his book might have actually reached us quite with certainty that's the irony of history that you see the book doesn't reach us with certainty because of the suffering inflicted on him by the hanafi's and the humblings the humble is in the the now and they are the two people today trying to say no it reaches us and they want to make sure so that's irani but why is this point important this point is important because imam buhari was no longer teaching any name associated with him became toxic so

[1:01:57] people were refusing to promote him refusing to transmit hadith from him hence none of these people transmit hadith from him at that point imam muslim boycotts him all these people boycott him now if he had continued to teach up until his dying breath maybe more people would have transmitted bukhari now bukhari is only transmitted really through one person muhammad ibn yusuf al-farabri and this is the key part we want to come to now check this out people imam bukhari everything in his book is so um

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment X6SfFYRljeY/s/10. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/10/

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