In a house in Bukhara, east of the Oxus, a boy named Muhammad ibn Isma’il was born in 194 AH / 810 CE. His father Isma’il, a pious merchant and student of hadith, died when Muhammad was still an infant. His mother, a woman of deep…
In a house in Bukhara, east of the Oxus, a boy named Muhammad ibn Isma’il was born in 194 AH / 810 CE. His father Isma’il, a pious merchant and student of hadith, died when Muhammad was still an infant. His mother, a woman of deep…