Albkhary B Kwrdy Zh Frmwwda -1000 Hta 1050...: Shyh

Zheen traveled to a famous scholar in Baghdad, Shaykh Mahmud al-Kurdi. The Shaykh asked him, “Why do you seek this hadith’s depth?”

Zheen replied, “Because I want to teach it purely for Allah’s sake.”

In the year 1025 AH (1616 CE), in the city of Isfahan, there lived a young Kurdish student named Zheen. He had memorized large portions of Sahih al-Bukhari but struggled with one particular hadith — the Prophet’s saying (zh frmwwda): “Actions are only by intentions.”

Zheen spent ten years teaching only that hadith with sincerity. Later, his students recorded that he never sought reward but Allah’s pleasure. His village still recalls: “Zheen zh frmwwda — ‘Actions are by intentions’ — and he proved it.” Sincerity ( niyyah ) is the soul of learning Sahih al-Bukhari. Without it, knowledge is just ink on paper. With it, even one hadith can illuminate centuries.

The Shaykh smiled and told a story: “Once, two students studied the same hadith from Bukhari. One sought fame, the other sought truth. Years later, the fame-seeker was forgotten, but the truth-seeker’s students spread his name until today.” The Shaykh added: “Between 1000 and 1050 AH, many memorized Bukhari’s book, but few lived by ‘intentions.’ Be among the few.”