Introduction to Translation of Sahih
Bukhari
Translator: M. Muhsin Khan ( Click Here to
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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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