Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Imam Bukhari An Amazing Story
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He became blind he lost his eyesight while still an infant, he
actually lost his eyesight he couldn't see anymore. His mom
became extremely as they say perish on what a beautiful word
that is right we should bring him into English became very very,
very perturbed about his condition that he had become blind. She
started making dua to Allah subhanaw taala what a dua she made
what a dua she made. This is to empower the mothers here, okay.
Our mothers here, your you are behind every great man out there
you better be right. They should be a woman behind every man
because Allah has placed a woman behind every gay man. In fact, a
stylist alum has a mother behind him and not a father.
That's amazing. If that's a rule of law, right? He's only other
money salon who was totally unique in that sense, but mother's she
made such a dua such a dua that she sees Ibrahim Ali Salaam in her
dream. So one day she is making dua and then she falls asleep and
then she sees Allah subhanho wa Taala will give us based on our
efforts. She says dream of Ibrahim Ali salaam who sang to her that
your DUA Allah has accepted your son has regained his sight
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My dear brothers Dear sisters diorama dear graduating class dear
students and dear friends. We are here on a very absolutely
auspicious occasion. Is this the first Hutton Buhari for Milton
Keynes Hutton Buhari has reached Milton Keynes, the new city on the
new style city of England. That means it's reached everywhere. And
hamdulillah in London, within about 10 miles within about, I
would say seven miles is about 15 Illuminati mock classes. And now
mashallah it's even reached Milton Keynes and that we can only be
thankful to Allah subhanaw taala for
there are places
in Europe,
a country where Muslims have been there for about 300 years 20 to
25% of the population is Muslim, stretching back to 300 years,
compared to about 60 or 70 years of Muslim presence in mass in
England, although Muslims have been here much longer, but in
terms of big communities about 60 to 70 years.
However, in that country, there's only three half is in the hole in
the whole country. And for so many years. As far as history goes.
They can't remember when the last time that the whole taraweeh was
done with full Quran.
And here hamdulillah just in my local area in Clapton in London,
there are about 1000 people who have memorized the Quran quite
easily. So that is an absolute blessing. And this is a Hutton
Buhari. And what does this represent? This represents
preservation of the faith despite all odds.
It's it's challenging, especially nowadays, to become and remain a
good Muslim, because there's confusion about everything.
There's new ideas, new ideologies, day by day. I mean, some, some
aspects, like things that were absolutely fixed axiomatic no
difference of opinion for literally all of the history of
humanity is now being
opened up to discussion and confusion. So how many genders are
there 100 or more. And it's getting that confusing. And you
know, my heart actually goes out to people who are confused,
really, because it's not easy to be in that situation. For whatever
reason, however, they reach that situation, whatever the cause of
that situation is, it's not the discussion for today. But today,
everything is being confused, even as to basically what a human being
is or what gender they are, and so on. Never had that kind of
question before. So in all of this, to have some kind of light,
and some sanity, and some direction is very, very important.
The good thing about the Islamic faith is obviously that it has
fixed ideas. And for the most part, the majority of Muslims,
they take on these fixed ideas, because those fixed ideas
Do not do not change. We have obviously a dynamic side of Islam.
Islam is very dynamic. And there's a number of things that do change
your time. But there are fixed ideas that do not change.
Otherwise, that will cause absolute chaos as it has today,
right in terms of humanity itself and how we're supposed to live in
this world. So
this is usually called the Hutton Buhari. And while it's the
culmination of this Alim course, this idemia course where you've
been, the men and women are usually taught for six or seven
years to understand the main aspects of their religion, main
sciences, the Hadith, and Tafseer, and fifth and
aqidah and so on. However, for some reason, out of everything,
right, rather than the use of the Quran, or Kira or Aqeedah, or
history or something else, Suhail Buhari suddenly gets chosen a book
by a scholar that lived about 1200 years ago, something like that,
that gets chosen that gets splashed over you know, these
posters throughout the country that is going to be a hot term of
Buhari. And that's why this is quite interesting that they could
have we could have chosen anything. We could have chosen a
Corolla completion, we could have chosen a completion of the Quran
and they do we do have Quran completions as well, but for some
reason, buhari, Imam Al Bukhari Rahim, Allah Allah so let, let's
just try to understand who he is. Why are we here today? Why does
this name Buhari become so important and so celebrated? So
firstly, Imam Bukhari, interestingly is not from Arab
origin, he's most likely of persian origin Farsi speaking
right from those lands where they were both Turkic and Persian
influences. So he's from Bahara. Bahara is currently in present
day. Uzbekistan. I had the opportunity of visiting Baja about
three years ago, I think it was
mashallah in the company of both the turkey with money.
Dermot baraka to home and sitting there in the masjid and the
madrasa next to it. Right where Imam Buhari taught is called the
masjid Gala. In May amazing place Alhamdulillah they've still
preserved it. However, when I asked if anybody there had an
ijazah had a direct chain from teacher to teacher to teacher to
teacher up to Imam Bukhari about 11 1200 years ago. Unfortunately,
there was nobody who had that connection because of what they
suffered for 80 years in the 1900s when he served for eight years.
Total Wipeout and literally a, a campaign to make everybody lose
Allah subhanho wa Taala lose Islam and everything. How religion was
how religion survived is amazing. The people have this amazing love
for Islam in that country, even though we've just come out of that
communism and almost atheism you could say.
Now, Imam Buhari Rahmatullah Yachty was not the only scholar
who studied in Bahara. There were 1000s of students and Alma who
taught in all of those areas, they became some really important areas
for the dissemination of Islam. During those centuries. Imam
Buhari just shone from among the rest, he wasn't just the one
scholar that study from there and he became the most famous one, you
go several hours down the line and there's pyramids, right which we
visited as well but you might tell me the strong you carry on you're
going to Persia and that's where Imam Muslim was from. So that
whole area Horizont area Persian speaking Turkic background, right
So Imam Muslim couldn't most likely was Persian, but he could
have been of Turkic origin. Instead, it looks like one of his
grand his ancestors, they were actually fire worshippers.
Zoroastrians are major ones. Then eventually they embraced Islam.
Imam Buhari his father was also a hadith scholar. Not obviously as
well known is married his name is Muhammad Ibnu Ismar eel is Marine
is not as well known as his son later become a lot more well known
than him. In fact, his father is hardly ever known except Muhammad
Ali smile in that sense, but
Imam Buhari is born in Shawwal 192 Hijiri so that's around when just
after Imam Muhammad a che Boni passes away, Imam Baha Imam Shafi
is still alive. Imam Shafi passes away just after 200 So this is
Imam Ahmed ignore humbles time, right this is when Imam Buhari is
born, and he's born just after Salah to Joomla
his father dies at a very young age while he's still an infant, it
seems his father passes away and his mum does this amazing job of
bringing up this imam who 11 1200 years later in Milton Keynes. We
are mashallah celebrating our conference. I mean, where would
his mum have ever imagined that she probably never even heard
about Milton Keynes because it did not exist.
Right. Londinium probably did But Milton Keynes didn't. Right? How
old is Milton Keynes?
60 years
I'm not trying to put you down. I mean, I'm just I'm just trying to
say that it's an amazing, right. You know, why would you think that
in a brand new city, you know, human behavior will be mushy mom,
his mother would never have imagined it would never have
imagined that right. And eventually he passed away 62 years
or so later, the night of April 5, so the night before it'll fit and
that's when he passed away. He's then buried on the day of Eid
after the whole prayer in a place called Hartung that's outside of
Summerland. That's the place where they've made a massive complex now
and people can visit it you can go to and visit his tomb. We went and
completed the last Hadith or so of his of his book down there with
move data to use my name of the ship, the seven others were there
as well. Now, he shows promise from a young age and this is
really what's interesting. We've got a lot of young talented kids
that do very well at fortnight's and other games, right from a
young age eight and nine years old and they are winning prizes and
awards. That's exactly what the mambo he was doing mashallah, from
a young age, he just would memorize everything. So he used to
like to go and actually actually what one interesting thing I
mentioned before I carry on, he became blind he lost his eyesight
while still an infant, he actually lost his eyesight he couldn't see
anymore. His mum became extremely as they say perish on what a
beautiful word that is right, we should bring him into English
became very, very, very perturbed about his condition that he had
become blind. She started making dua to Allah subhanaw taala what a
dua she made what a dua she made. This is to empower the mothers
here, okay. Our mothers here, your you are behind every great man out
there you better be right. They should be a woman behind every man
because Allah has placed a woman behind every gay man. In fact, a
stylist salon has a mother behind him and not a father.
That's amazing. If that's a rule of law, right? It's only other
money salon who is totally unique in that sense, but mother's she
made such a dua such a dua that she sees Ibrahim Ali Salaam in her
dream. So one day she is making dua and then she falls asleep. And
then she sees Allah subhanho wa Taala will give us based on our
efforts. She says dream of Ibrahim Ali salaam who's saying to her
that
your DUA Allah has accepted your son has regained his sight.
Obviously, how do you test the child to find a record is tied
back but yes, when she tests him, he gets his sight back and what a
sight he gets back. Later on when he is going to write his daddy
Huckabee, his major history book in Madina Munawwara he wrote it by
moonlight. He wrote it by moonlight because you know, then
we didn't used to have the chandeliers then, right? As we sit
here in Milton Keynes, you don't have those kinds of chandeliers
back then, in those days. So from a young age, he's very interested
in things like football and fortnight and things like that,
which our children are interested in. He had a different fortnight,
a different game, a different football, what he used to do, is
he instead of all of these things, right? I mean, it's very
comparable, I guess for our children. I mean, the way the way
our children are nowadays, right? He used to go and attend the
Hadith gatherings of the scholars. That's what he used to do.
Subhanallah that's what he used to do. Right? Instead of getting on
his Playstation or whatever it is. That's what he used to do. And he
used to just memorize, it looks at very good memories. You just
memorize everything. One day, he's sitting in a gathering of this
Muhaddith His name is Imam Daffy and Imam Doheny. I mean look, you
can make mistakes, right? People make mistakes. So Imam does he
wants is transmitting a hadith. And when we transmit Hadith as
you've heard, the Imam, Muslims, Hadith, the last Hadees being
transmitted you'll hear Imam Bukhari Hadith being transmitted,
there's going to be a chain of narration from the teacher, his
teacher, his teacher, his teacher, all the way up to the Prophet
sallallahu ala to the to the author, and then to the Prophet
sallallahu sallam. So in that Imam Doheny, he's he must have said
Soufiane Imam Soufiane transmits from Abu Zubaydah who transmits
from Ibrahim Imam Buhari little kid, I'll tell you how old he was
later, he is sitting in a corner and suddenly he just says
Abu Zubaydah, the second person you mentioned, does not transmit
directly from Ibrahim
Imam Doheny is taken aback. He looks at ignores him first he
doesn't know he doesn't pay much attention. He's a little kid.
Maybe he's just saying something maybe you know, children like to
speak out. Maybe you're just speaking out.
But Imam Buhari, so Imam Buhari at that young age is not an imam yet.
He with a lot of confidence. He says, if you've got a source to
check from your records or your writing, go and check it. Look at
the confidence, right? So Imam Doheny sees seriousness and
confidence so he says, Okay, I'll go and check it stops, goes to
inside his house checks
notes. And sure enough, it was incorrect. So then he comes back
and he says to Imam Buhari to test him now so who does he relate
from? Who's missing? Who have I missed? He said, It's Abu Zubaydah
from ID. ID is in between. So you missed from Ibrahim. Now that
story went viral. Okay, no Twitter or whatever when he went viral.
After that, as he mumbled a little kid used to go and attend all of
these gatherings Hadith gatherings where Hadith was transmitted. They
used to be lots of Hadith gatherings in those days
transmission of Hadith because Hadith transmission was taking
place at a time. All the other mohideen whenever they would see
him in the gathering, they would be careful, because it was
formidable, right? So his that's his firm first story of fame. A
lot of our kids want to be famous nowadays. They want to shoot a
star into the sky before it's their time a satellite so that
they can become a star. This is how you become a an absolute star.
Right
now, when he was later us how old were you when that happened? He
said he was 11 years old.
literally put us to shame. He was 11 years old. We have a lot of
talented, phenomenal children, but they're wasted. They're absolutely
wasted in the wrong things. And it's so difficult even if parents
want him to do some there's just so much competition out there to
do other things that Subhanallah you know, may Allah preserve our
children, according to another great Muhaddith Imam foster
learning who is originally from Andalusia from from Spain, but
then he's he's actually was in Egypt, and he's buried there next
to Mr. Marini behind us and I visited his grave as well.
He says that he realized the Imam Buhari had memorized about 70,000
Hadith in his childhood 70,000 Sounds mind boggling, but it's
absolutely possible. It's absolutely possible. Right? I've
seen a number of children know a lot of stuff.
There's one kid that has memorized the Quran. He's memorized the
whole level, his will of them is memorized. holacracy, the Buddha
and multiple other things if you give them the direction and they
got the mind for it, they can do it. It's not impossible, we still
Allah still creates wonderful lines, right? Still creates
wonderful minds.
One of the, you know, one of the other as they as they carried on
one of the other younger people that he used to attend gatherings
with in different places. They they used to write lessons they
used to write the notes, and Imam Buhari has just sit there. So they
used to complain to him like what's your problem? Will you just
come you just sit there that's bad adverb or whatever they used to
say to him. One day, he responded, he said, Okay, how many Hadith
Have you got down? Have you jotted down? So one of them said I've got
15,000 variations.
Imam Buhari just started relating by heart stopped at 200 and
they're like, Wow, they actually corrected those 200 Hadith
mistakes they had in their writing the corrected from him. Absolutely
phenomenal memory. Now, he then took a six year tour he left he
left Baja and went to Morocco Morocco, for Hajj with his mum and
his brother after * sent them home. And he carried on to study
and take Hadith. He went to Madina, Munawwara and there he
wrote a hadith he wrote a book at the age of 18. This was in 212. He
he wrote a book called Baba Sahaba. Waterbury called via a
Sahaba, who had diabetes and then after that, sometime later, he
wrote his Atari Hal kabhi, Atari Hill copied his his major history
work, which, in the earlier years after his he died as well, used to
be more well known than his sahih al Bukhari that were celebrating.
You know, today. Imam Kahawai is just after him. Imam Taha, he does
not seem to quote, The Sahil Buhari, but this quote is study so
one scholar who is doing who did research on him says that it looks
like the Tyreke Hill Kabir was more well known. Later, this
collection of Hadith became more well known later, and not many
people even know that his study called Kabir anymore, so it's kind
of interesting, right how something become accepted after
your death. So he wrote that essay six years he stayed out he went to
Basra. These were the bustling places of knowledge, Basra, Kufa,
Baghdad, he ultimately had taken Hadith he went to numerous because
you see, the Muhaddith in Hadith scholars and Hadith transmitters
and narrators had spread out through the Muslim world in
different areas. And they all had their own unique collection of
Hadith that others didn't have with their own unique chains. Imam
Wuhan literally traveled around to over 1000 scholars to take from
them in the different cities. Ultimately, he had taken from
about 1060 narrators of Hadees directly from them
for over
1000 teachers you could say, maybe one or two Hadith five Hadith 20,
Hadith, maybe 100 Depending on the scholar and what he has, then he
compiled his book. So when he went into Kufa, his prominence and his
fame had preceded him there. So they decided to test him. The
other book that was the center of the caliphate, was the center of
actually the center of knowledge. Eventually, at that time, Imam
Muhammad, even though humble Rahim, Allah was there and
multiple other scholars were there. And they heard of this guy
from Hora San Corizon is that area, which is Iran and parts of
Maharana, which is the near the Oxus river of Aniston, Iran, and
further north, so they had heard about this scholar, and they
tested him so they set up 10 More Hadith in 10 Hadith masters. Each
of these Hadith scholars had had to present 10 Hadith, and they
collaborate, it was a bit of a conspiracy, right a plot that they
would have to transmit 10 Hadith incorrectly, as though they were
doing it correctly. And Imam Buhari was going to listen and
comment on it. So the first person that started he related his 10
Hadith, incorrectly messing it all up, messing up the transmitters,
from him to the, to the prophets, Allah Islam, changing the names
and so on. So at the end of that, they asked him, What do you think
of these as I don't know those.
So now the general people thought he doesn't know anything. Because
he doesn't know these Hadith. They thought they were correct Hadith.
But the experts knew that this guy was on to something. Because I
don't know these Hadith. Second Muhammad this 10 Hadith, same 100
narrations after that he called the first person the first one had
this and he said, You transmitted your 10 like this. And he revised
repeat it to him exactly the wrong way he had transmitted said, but
they were all wrong, this is how they should be. And then he
mentioned the correct one. And same with every single one. You
know, one is he could have just corrected them, he actually
memorized the incorrect version and corrected them as well. It's
just amazing. This is absolutely amazing. All right.
You know, you know, today, you get these little videos that come on
WhatsApp about this half is of the Quran, little kid eight years old,
which can tell you the beginning of each page, you know, one after
the other, the last word is that and other people, we have these
kinds of people, but nobody uses them in the right way. Right? The
school takes over with lots of other stuff, right? That we they
just the parents want them to have degrees and, you know, big fame
and in the wrong. So you know, you're not going to get enough.
But otherwise, we got children like this today, they use not an
anomaly. We use an anomaly in a sense, but he's not, you know,
he's not
totally nobody else. Like he really can't be. There's humans
like him today.
But Allah gives him the Tofik to do that. So over the course of
this years, while his father had left him a good inheritance, so
the family was decently well off. But in order to have your
inheritance and then do something with it, you need to start doing
business in it. Otherwise, you're going to deplete your, your, your,
your inheritance, your supply is very soon, he decided I was going
to take a lot of my time because business is very engaging, and
very occupying. He gave it out on Madonna, they gave it to somebody
to do business for him to share the profit and profit sharing
business. He started studying right now, when he's traveling
around in those days, there's no credit cards, you can't just pull
out money with a starling account or a Munzo account or something
wherever you go. And, you know, you can't have people why you
money, you're in a strange land where you're gonna get money to
get left, so you have to work for it. He's basically what he used to
do is sometimes he said, I haven't had silane curry, right, whatever
that Curry was in those days for about 40 years property. Right. He
survived on basics, sometimes that I've just survived on bread and
sugar, right on leaves, just so that I can carry on.
On one occasion, he was on a ship traveling with some other people
one place to the next. And he got there's a guy who became friendly
with him. So Imam Buhari opens up a bit with him and also mentions
that he's carrying a thing it's 1000 dirhams with him. Right at
that time he had 1000 homes. That person suddenly makes a scene he
started saying, Hey, I've got my 1000 Burnham's have been lost
after you know some time he makes a scene. So everybody's gonna get
checked. Right. But who's got 1000 their homes, Imam Buhari seizes an
opportunity and what he does is that he goes and throws them
overboard into the sea. They check his stuff finds nothing. Nobody's
got 1000 Dirham pouch, you know, so that guy gets in trouble. After
they disembark. The person comes to Imam Bukhari and says, we have
the guts to do this. Right. He says, Where's those 1000 Different
you said yet? He said I Froome overboard is Why do you do that
for? He said because I didn't want to lose my honor that I've been
trying to build. I don't want to lose my honor for 1000 dirhams.
Very, very particular.
Very cautious, very screwed a lot of scruples by a very particular
there are I mean there's there's no end to praise from him I don't
want to go into a whole list of praise. I mean, I guess he's
already found a special place in your heart and if not, who cares
because he has it already. We're calling our recording this whole
session Buhari has done right that's amazing. He's done
Mashallah. He's out there enjoying himself in the Hereafter,
investments made reaping the benefits of that. Now we might not
be able to get to achieve that much. But we can get somewhere,
right, we can get somewhere. And believe me, among our children,
there are phenomenal children, but we are wasting their time where
our priorities are totally wrong. Our priorities are to the end of
this world only. That's all we're worried about. But today
Alhamdulillah Allah has made it such for the people of England
that you can get both. You can be you can have your degrees from the
best universities and also, you know, have studied the beam, you
just have to have the right priority. And this was a person
brought up by a single mother. Right? A single mother Yes, that's
a debilitating situation usually. But mashallah, this is a success
story. Right? For even single mothers, right? So don't think
that Allah is not with you. You if you want Allah to be with you be
with Allah subhana wa Tada, Imam Ahmed and kotoba Abu Saeed and
multiple others the comments I've made about Imam Buhari, for
example, Imam Imam Muhammad says that Hora son that general area
has not produced anybody, the same as Mohammed Abu Ismail Buhari. And
when he was leaving Baghdad for the last time, after he'd gone
there quite a few times and taken from the scholars, Mr. Muhammad
said,
You're You're finally leaving, you're abandoning all of this and
you're gonna go back to Hora son, you know what, what he was
lamenting? He was he was lamenting his departure. There's a number of
other stories but we don't have too much time. Although ma say,
you know, there's a hadith in Sahih al Bukhari, which praises
somebody a descendant of the Persians, the prophets, Allah some
had said that, if the knowledge was so far away, and so far to
reach and difficult to reach, essentially saying in literally he
said, The prophecy also said that if the knowledge was by the, on
the Playa de estar, then somebody from the descendants of Salman al
Farsi Radi Allahu anhu, will go there to get it, showing that
people are willing, there'll be people Persians, and that could
refer to all non Arabs, right? It's not restricted to Arabs, they
would go there to pick this up. The other man mentioned that this
refers to Imam Abu Hanifa. First because he is probably the most
celebrated of Persian scholars of persian origin scholars. Probably
often they say it's Imam Buhari, Imam Buhari, right. You can be
Bundler. You could be Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi you can be
whatever you are, you could also become the next Buhari. In another
sense, as long as you get off this whole fortnight and all this other
kind of junk, the football and everything that occupies people,
your child can become the next if not you, alright, somewhere along
that line, because the knowledge is not restricted to the Arabs or
any one group of people. It moves around. Okay, used to be in
Bahara. One time it's gone from there. It's in other places. Okay.
So now
Allah subhanaw taala. All I can do is pray that Allah subhanho wa
Taala bless our students, the first 655 graduates out of which
four are from Milton Keynes, and one is from another town. All
right, and that's amazing Inshallah, this will continue.
This will continue and your job, our parents is that you want your
if not yourself, then you want your children to be part of this
tradition. Okay. And it's easy. I can give you examples. And there's
some here as well. I can give you examples of people who've just
graduated as alums and Mufti and they are also PhDs from Imperial
College masters from UCL top universities in the, you know, in
London, absolutely possible nowadays, don't, don't be short
sighted. Allah has absolute ability to give you if you can
return the sight of Imam Buhari back, because this pious mother of
his praise to Allah subhanho wa taala, then you think our mothers
and fathers here cannot pray for something that is not so
impossible. That is not so difficult, of course they come.
Don't underestimate the Quran of Allah and your own power of dua.
And we ask Allah to accept this gathering accept all of the
teachers and the students, the parents and all the supporters who
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