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Saudi Ambassador Walid al-Bukhari earlier shared a tweet from a pro-Saudi account containing a recording by a man, who the interior ministry believes to be a Saudi national living in Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah.

The Saudi ambassador to Lebanon, Waleed al-Bukhari, praised the Lebanese authorities’ efforts “to uncover the facts and bring the perpetrators to justice” in a post on Twitter.

Bukhara, which had given Islam some of its foremost thinkers — the ninth century’s al-Bukhari, a compiler of Muhammad’s sayings and acts, or Hadith, and the 14th century’s Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari, the founder of the Sufi order Naqshbandi — had, as the Silk Road dried up around it, leaving it stranded, become a byword in the 19th century for insularity and zealotry.

There are also the predominantly-Uzbek Tawhid and Jihad Brigade, which is aligned with HTS, and the Imam al-Bukhari Brigade.

"World famous Islamic scientists and scholars like Imam al-Bukhari or Bahauddin Naqshband are buried in Uzbekistan," Mr Aqqulov says.