{ "id": "ep9exymy3v", "slug": "makki-ibn-ibrahim", "title": "Makki ibn Ibrahim", "updated": "2026-10-15", "topic_path": [ { "id": "society", "label": "Society and history", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society" }, { "id": "society.belief", "label": "Philosophy, religion, and mythology", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.belief" }, { "id": "society.belief.religion", "label": "Religion and spirituality", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.belief.religion" }, { "id": "society.belief.religion.people", "label": "Religious biographies", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.belief.religion.people" }, { "id": "society.belief.religion.people.non_christian_leaders", "label": "Jewish, Islamic, and Dharmic religious leaders", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.belief.religion.people.non_christian_leaders" }, { "id": "society.belief.religion.people.islamic_leaders", "label": "Islamic religious leaders and scholars", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.belief.religion.people.islamic_leaders" }, { "id": "society.belief.religion.people.islamic_sunni_scholars", "label": "Sunni imams and classical Islamic scholars", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.belief.religion.people.islamic_sunni_scholars" }, { "id": "society.belief.religion.people.islamic_sunni_scholars.hadith_scholars", "label": "Hadith scholars and traditionists", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.belief.religion.people.islamic_sunni_scholars.hadith_scholars" }, { "id": "society.belief.religion.people.islamic_sunni_scholars.hadith_scholars.kufan-traditionists", "label": "Kufan traditionists", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.belief.religion.people.islamic_sunni_scholars.hadith_scholars.kufan-traditionists" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.asia.t500.society.belief.religion.people.non_christian_leaders", "label": "Asia (other) · 500 BC to AD 999: Jewish, Islamic, and Dharmic religious leaders", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t500.society.belief.religion.people.non_christian_leaders", "path": [ { "id": "geo.asia", "label": "Asia (other)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t500", "label": "Asia (other) · 500 BC to AD 999", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t500" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t500.society", "label": "Society and history", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t500.society" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t500.society.belief", "label": "Philosophy, religion, and mythology", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t500.society.belief" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t500.society.belief.religion", "label": "Religion and spirituality", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t500.society.belief.religion" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t500.society.belief.religion.people", "label": "Religious biographies", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t500.society.belief.religion.people" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t500.society.belief.religion.people.non_christian_leaders", "label": "Jewish, Islamic, and Dharmic religious leaders", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t500.society.belief.religion.people.non_christian_leaders" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Makki ibn Ibrahim (مكي بن إبراهيم) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Balkh in Khurasan, titled musnid of Khurasan, who died in 214 or 215 AH and was a direct teacher of al-Bukhari.", "snippet": "Makki ibn Ibrahim (مكي بن إبراهيم) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Balkh in Khurasan, titled musnid of Khurasan, who died in 214 or 215 AH and was a direct teacher of al-Bukhari.", "node": "society.belief.religion.people.islamic_sunni_scholars.hadith_scholars.kufan-traditionists", "markdown": "# Makki ibn Ibrahim\n\n**Makki ibn Ibrahim** (مكي بن إبراهيم بن بشير بن فرقد التميمي), in full Makki ibn Ibrahim ibn Bashir ibn Farqad al-Tamimi al-Hanzali, kunya Abu al-Sakan, was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Balkh in Khurasan who died in 214 or 215 AH. Classical biographers title him Imam, Hafiz, truthful, and musnid Khurasan, the great chain-carrier of hadith in his region[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374) • [2](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/6215). He is one of the teachers from whom al-Bukhari narrated directly in his Sahih, and eleven of al-Bukhari's twenty-two three-narrator chains (thulathiyyat) pass through him[3](https://bukhari-pedia.net/book/ghayh_mram/1422). He appears as a narrator in both [Sahih al-Bukhari](https://www.edgepedia.org/sahih-al-bukhari) and [Sahih Muslim](https://www.edgepedia.org/sahih-muslim)[4](https://portainer.sunnah.com/narrator/7660).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Identity | Makki ibn Ibrahim ibn Bashir ibn Farqad al-Tamimi al-Hanzali al-Balkhi, Abu al-Sakan; titled Imam, Hafiz, musnid of Khurasan[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374) |\n| Dates | Born 126 AH; died 214 AH per Abu Hatim and al-Bukhari, 215 AH per Ibn Sa'd and others, in Balkh[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374) • [5](https://read.shamela.ws/narrator/6333) |\n| Place in the Sahih | Al-Bukhari narrated from him without intermediary in the prayer and sales chapters; the first chain in the chapter \"whoever answers fatwas\" of the Sahih runs through him[3](https://bukhari-pedia.net/book/ghayh_mram/1422) |\n| Reliability | Ahmad ibn Hanbal: thiqa; Abu Hatim: mahalluhu al-sidq; al-Daraqutni: thiqa ma'mun; Ibn Hajar: thiqa thabit; al-Dhahabi: al-Hafiz[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374) • [5](https://read.shamela.ws/narrator/6333) |\n| Teachers | Malik ibn Anas, Ibn Jurayj, Abu Hanifa, Sufyan al-Thawri, Hisham ibn Hassan, Yazid ibn Abi Ubayd, and narrated from eleven Successors (Tabi'un), nine identified by al-Dhahabi[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374) • [2](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/6215) |\n| Output | 268 narrated hadith in one modern database; 31 hadiths in Sahih al-Bukhari per one count, 35 per Ikmal Tahdhib[4](https://portainer.sunnah.com/narrator/7660) • [7](https://sahibukhari.com/narrators/makki-bin-ibrahim-bin-bashayr) • [5](https://read.shamela.ws/narrator/6333) |\n\n## Life and origins\n\nThe genealogy is given as Makki ibn Ibrahim ibn Bashir ibn Farqad; his nisbas are al-Tamimi (tribal), al-Hanzali (clan), and al-Balkhi or al-Burjumi (place). [Ibn al-Athir](https://www.edgepedia.org/ibn-al-athir) records that most hadith scholars vocalized Burjumi with a fatha on the first letter, though some read it with a damma[3](https://bukhari-pedia.net/book/ghayh_mram/1422). When Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ja'far al-Balkhi asked his birth year, Makki answered 126 AH[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374).\n\n**A lifetime of pilgrimage.** [Abd al-Samad](https://www.edgepedia.org/abd-al-samad) ibn Fadl reported Makki's own account: he performed sixty hajjs, married sixty women, spent ten years living near the Kaaba, and wrote hadith from seventeen Successors[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374). A second report, from Umar ibn Mudrik, has him crossing the desert from Balkh fifty times as a pilgrim and paying more than 1,200 dinars in rent for houses in Mecca; the compiler of that entry notes the report is weak (wahin)[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374).\n\nHis connection to the Iraqi centers of hadith came early. He reported that he entered Kufa twice while al-A'mash and Isma'il ibn Abi Khalid were alive, first attending al-A'mash's circle at age eleven, taking a seat for his brother and not yet applying himself to hadith[6](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/148062). [Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab](https://www.edgepedia.org/muhammad-ibn-abd-al-wahhab) al-Farra described him as \"the righteous man of Nishapur\"[2](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/6215).\n\n## Teachers and students\n\nHis teachers span the centers of second- and early third-century hadith. Al-Mizzi's Tahdhib al-Kamal lists, among others, Hashim ibn Hashim ibn Utba, Hisham ibn Hassan, Hisham al-Dastuwa'i, Yahya ibn Shabla, and Yazid ibn Abi Ubayd, mawla of Salama ibn al-Akwa'[8](https://www.islamweb.net/ar/library/content/1001/7427/). Al-Dhahabi's Siyar adds [Abu Hanifa](https://www.edgepedia.org/abu-hanifa), Ayyan ibn Nabl, Dawud ibn Yazid al-Awdi, Fa'id Abu al-Warqa, Fitr ibn Khalifa, Uthman ibn al-Aswad, and [Malik ibn Anas](https://www.edgepedia.org/malik-ibn-anas), and records that Makki narrated from eleven Successors, nine of whom al-Dhahabi could identify[2](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/6215). The Sunnah.com narrator profile lists [Ibn Jurayj](https://www.edgepedia.org/ibn-jurayj) al-Makki, Sufyan al-Thawri, Malik ibn Anas, Hammad ibn Salama, and Sharik ibn Abd Allah al-Qadi among his sources[4](https://portainer.sunnah.com/narrator/7660).\n\nA digital transmitter database counts 57 teachers and 64 students for him[9](https://didnthesay.com/ar/figures/narrators/makki-ibn-ibrahim-al-hanzali).\n\n## His hadith in the major collections\n\n**Direct link to al-Bukhari.** Al-Bukhari narrated from Makki without an intermediary in the chapters on prayer and sales, and most of al-Bukhari's thulathiyyat, chains with only three narrators between the compiler and the Prophet, are transmitted through him[3](https://bukhari-pedia.net/book/ghayh_mram/1422). The first chain al-Bukhari cites in the chapter \"whoever answers fatwas\" of the Book of Knowledge runs through Makki[3](https://bukhari-pedia.net/book/ghayh_mram/1422). Al-Zirikli's al-A'lam likewise records that al-Bukhari uniquely relied on him (tafarrada bihi) in the prayer and sales chapters[6](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/148062).\n\nSample hadith cited to him include Sahih al-Bukhari 109 (\"Do not lie against me, for whoever lies against me will enter the Fire\"), 1557, 2160, 1167, and 1647 (the circumambulation at the [Farewell Pilgrimage](https://www.edgepedia.org/farewell-pilgrimage))[4](https://portainer.sunnah.com/narrator/7660). Another database places him in 31 hadiths of the Sahih, including numbers 298 (menstrual periods), 497 (prayer), 762 (call to prayer), and 2007 (fasting), with reports from [Abu Hurayra](https://www.edgepedia.org/abu-hurayra), Salama, and [Umm Salama](https://www.edgepedia.org/umm-salama)[7](https://sahibukhari.com/narrators/makki-bin-ibrahim-bin-bashayr). Sample chains show him transmitting from Yazid ibn Abi Ubayd from Salama, and from Hanzala ibn Abi Sufyan from Salim from Abu Hurayra[9](https://didnthesay.com/ar/figures/narrators/makki-ibn-ibrahim-al-hanzali).\n\n## Evaluation in rijal criticism\n\nThe classical verdicts are consistently positive. [Ahmad ibn Hanbal](https://www.edgepedia.org/ahmad-ibn-hanbal) said thiqa (trustworthy); Abu Hatim said mahalluhu al-sidq (his place is truthfulness); al-Ijli said thiqa; al-Nasa'i said \"there is no harm in him\"; al-Daraqutni said thiqa, ma'mun (trustworthy, reliable)[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374). Ibn Sa'd described him as thiqa and thabit in hadith, and the compiler of his entry notes the judgment that al-Bukhari met no one in Khurasan greater than him[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374). Ibn Hajar graded him thiqa thabit and al-Dhahabi called him al-Hafiz[5](https://read.shamela.ws/narrator/6333).\n\n**One documented dispute.** Al-Khalili called him thiqa by consensus but recorded an error in Makki's narration of the funeral prayer over al-Najashi, which he gave via Malik from Nafi' from Ibn Umar; the correct chain, per al-Khalili, is Malik from al-Zuhri from Sa'id from Abu Hurayra[5](https://read.shamela.ws/narrator/6333). [Ibn Hibban](https://www.edgepedia.org/ibn-hibban) reports that [Yahya ibn Ma'in](https://www.edgepedia.org/yahya-ibn-main), asked about Makki's version of this hadith, answered \"this is false, and he lied\" (batal wa-kadhab); al-Khatib al-Baghdadi records that Makki transmitted the report in al-Rayy but refused to repeat it after returning from hajj[5](https://read.shamela.ws/narrator/6333). A separate report preserves Ibn Ma'in being questioned, from his own handwritten book, about a hadith narrated by Makki from Malik from Nafi', showing that the leading critic of the day examined Makki's chains directly[10](https://hadithtransmitters.hawramani.com/مكي-بن-إبراهيم-بن-بشير-بن-فرقد-التميمي/).\n\n## By the numbers\n\nThe quantitative picture varies by database. Sunnah.com records 268 narrated hadith for him overall[4](https://portainer.sunnah.com/narrator/7660); one Sahih al-Bukhari database counts 31 hadiths from him in that collection[7](https://sahibukhari.com/narrators/makki-bin-ibrahim-bin-bashayr), while Ikmal Tahdhib, cited in the Shamela entry, gives 35[5](https://read.shamela.ws/narrator/6333). [Khalifa ibn Khayyat](https://www.edgepedia.org/khalifa-ibn-khayyat) placed him in the fifth tabaqa (generation-cohort) of the people of Khurasan[4](https://portainer.sunnah.com/narrator/7660). The classical entry describes him as not very prolific (laysa bi-l-mukthir jiddan) in narration[1](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374), which fits a profile of moderate output carrying exceptional chain importance: his value lies in the thulathiyyat and the opening chains of the Sahih rather than in volume.\n\n## References\n\n1. [الأعلام: مكي بن إبراهيم بن بشير بن فرقد التميمي, IslamArchive](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/156374)\n2. [سير أعلام النبلاء (ج9): ترجمة مكي بن إبراهيم, al-Dhahabi, Shamela](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/6215)\n3. [موسوعة صحيح البخاري: ترجمة مكي بن إبراهيم, Bukhari-pedia](https://bukhari-pedia.net/book/ghayh_mram/1422)\n4. [Makki ibn Ibrahim al-Hanzali, Narrators, Sunnah.com](https://portainer.sunnah.com/narrator/7660)\n5. [مكي بن إبراهيم بن بشير بن فرقد, إكمال تهذيب الكمال, المكتبة الشاملة](https://read.shamela.ws/narrator/6333)\n6. [الأعلام: مكي بن إبراهيم بن بشير بن فرقد أبو السكن التميمي, al-Zirikli, IslamArchive](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/148062)\n7. [Makki bin Ibrahim bin Bashayr, Narrator in Sahih al-Bukhari](https://sahibukhari.com/narrators/makki-bin-ibrahim-bin-bashayr)\n8. [تهذيب الكمال في أسماء الرجال: مكي بن إبراهيم, al-Mizzi, IslamWeb](https://www.islamweb.net/ar/library/content/1001/7427/)\n9. [مكي بن إبراهيم الحنظلي, أولم يقل transmitter database](https://didnthesay.com/ar/figures/narrators/makki-ibn-ibrahim-al-hanzali)\n10. [مكي بن إبراهيم بن بشير بن فرقد التميمي, The Hadith Transmitters Encyclopedia](https://hadithtransmitters.hawramani.com/مكي-بن-إبراهيم-بن-بشير-بن-فرقد-التميمي/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Society and history › Philosophy, religion, and mythology › Religion and spirituality › Religious biographies › Jewish, Islamic, and Dharmic religious leaders › Islamic religious leaders and scholars › Sunni imams and classical Islamic scholars › Hadith scholars and traditionists › Kufan traditionists*\n\n*Initially written Oct 10, 2026 · Edited: Oct 11, 2026; Oct 15, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/makki-ibn-ibrahim", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/makki-ibn-ibrahim.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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