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Sahih Bukhari
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Bukhari
Sahih Bukhari is a collection of sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad
(pbuh), also known as the sunnah. The reports of the
Prophet's sayings and deeds are called ahadith. Bukhari lived a
couple of centuries after the Prophet's death and worked extremely hard to
collect his ahadith. Each report in his collection was checked for compatibility
with the Qur'an, and the veracity of the chain of reporters had to be
painstakingly established. Bukhari's collection is recognized by the
overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to be one of the most authentic
collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh).
Bukhari (full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin
Ismail bin Ibrahim bin al-Mughira al-Ja'fai) was born in 194 A.H. and died in
256 A.H. His collection of hadith is considered second to none. He spent sixteen
years compiling it, and ended up with 2,602 hadith (9,082 with repetition). His
criteria for acceptance into the collection were amongst the most stringent of
all the scholars of ahadith.
It is important to realize, however, that
Bukhari's collection is not complete: there are other scholars who worked as
Bukhari did and collected other authentic reports.
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