A twelfth-century tombstone. How did he end up in Bukhara?

In the Shahristan of Bukhara, there is a library within the guzar named after the 16th-century poet and Sufi Mulla Payraviy.

According to legend, the construction of this library, dating back to the 19th century, is associated with the name of Khoja Muhammad Porso.

On the western arch of the library stands a 48x13 centimeter stone tombstone with the inscription of a bakhshi, on which is inscribed: "Ahmad ibn Ammar al-Ansari."

This is the grave of the jurist Ahmad ibn Ammar al-Ansari al-Hafi, who hoped for Allah's mercy. He passed away in the month of Rajab of five hundred and sixty-three (April-May 1168).

Interestingly, this is the only case where a whetstone was used in a mausoleum in Bukhara, and it is known that in the 11th-14th centuries, the whetstone was mainly used as a tombstone in Samarkand, the Fergana Valley, and partly in Tashkent.

Therefore, there is reason to assert that the tombstone was brought from another cemetery (located within the borders of the provinces).

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