Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da Daular Ottoman ta faɗi a 1918, Faisal I ya ayyana kansa Sarkin Siriya. A karkashin Faisal, Bukhari ya umurci garkuwar Aleppo kafin a tura shi zuwa Alkahira a watan Janairun 1920 a matsayin mai kula da soja a Masar. A watan Yulin 1920 an ayyana umarnin Faransa na Siriya, kuma an raba kasar zuwa kasashe masu zaman kansu da yawa. A watan Satumbar 1920, an nada Haqqi al-Azm gwamnan Jihar Damascus, kuma a watan Disamba ya nada Bukhari a matsayin ministan harkokin soja a gwamnatinsa, wanda ya yi aiki har zuwa 1922. Bayan murkushe babbar tawayen Siriya
a cikin 1926, sabon Kwamishinan Faransa, Henri de Jouvenel, ya nada Ahmad Nami ya shugabanci majalisar ministocin wucin gadi a cikin Jihar Siriya, wacce ta ƙunshi tsoffin jihohin Damascus da Aleppo. Bukhari ya yi aiki a matsayin ministan noma a cikin majalisar ministocin Ahmad Nami har zuwa lokacin da ya yi murabus a watan Fabrairun 1928.