Muhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardiziyeh al-Bukhari محمد بن اسماعيل بن ابراهيم بن المغيرة بن بردزبه البخاري), was the author of a collection of traditions, compiled in Sahih Bukhari. Sunni Muslims regard this as the most authentic compilation of the sayings of Muhammad. Bukari (810-870) was born in the city of Bukhara, in what is today Uzbekistan. Sahih Bukhari is one of the Sunni Six Major Hadith collections, collected by Muhammad al-Bukhari who spent 16 years writing it. ... Hadith (Arabic: hadÄ«th, Arabic pl. ... For other people named Muhammad, see Muhammad (disambiguation). ... Events October 1 - A man with a sword makes an attempt on emperor Nicephorus Is life. ... Events February 28 - End of the Fourth Council of Constantinople. ... Bukhara (Bokhara in XIX century English, Buxoro or Бухоро in Uzbek (the Cyrillic alphabet was officially phased out for Uzbek after independence); بُخارا /Bukhârâ/ in Persian, Buhe/Puhe Tang Chinese, Бухара in Russian; also Boxara in Tatar) is the fifth-largest city in Uzbekistan, and capital of the Bukhara region (Bukhoro Wiloyati). ...

He distinguished himself in the learning of traditions by heart at a very early age, and when, in his sixteenth year, his family made the pilgrimage to Mecca, he gathered additions to his store from the authorities along the route. Already, in his eighteenth year, he had devoted himself to the collecting, sifting, testing and arranging of traditions. For that purpose he travelled over the Islamic world, all the way to Egypt, Syria, Arabia, and Iraq, seeking hadith narrators and listening to them. It is said that he heard from over 1,000 men, and learned over 600,000 traditions, true and false.^{[citation needed]} He became the acknowledged authority on the subject, and developed a power and speed of memory which seemed miraculous, even to his contemporaries. His theological position was conservative and anti-Mu'tazili; he enjoyed the friendship and respect of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, and was persecuted because he held to Ibn Hanbal's views in matter of Aqidah (creed), specially that Qur'an is not created. His legal views appear to have been Shafi'ite.^{[citation needed]} The Hajj (Arabic: ‎ translit: ) is the Pilgrimage to Mecca in Islam. ... The Islamic world is the world-wide community of those who identify with Islam, known as Muslims, and who number approximately one-and-a-half billion people. ... The Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula is a mainly desert peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia and an important part of the greater Middle East. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It can also refer to the study of other religious topics. ... Mutazilah (Arabic المعتزلة al-mu`tazilah) is a theological school of thought within Islam. ... Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: ‏‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎أحمد بن حنبل‏‎‎‎‏‎‎‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ Ahmad bin Hanbal ) (780 [164 AH] - 855 [241 AH] ) was an important Muslim scholar and theologian. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The , , (Arabic: recitation, also transliterated as Quran, Quran, Quran, Koran, and Alcoran), is the holy book of Islam. ... Shafii is one of the four schools of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam. ...

After sixteen years' absence he returned to Bukhara, and there drew up his al-Jami' al-Sahih, a collection of 7275 tested traditions, arranged in chapters so as to afford bases for a complete system of jurisprudence without the use of speculative law, (see Islamic Law). His book is highly regarded among Sunni Muslims, and considered the most authentic collection of hadith (a minority of Sunni scholars consider Sahih Muslim, compiled by Bukhari's student Imam Muslim, more authentic). Most Sunni scholars consider it second only to the Qur'an in terms of authenticity . He also composed other books, including al-Adab al-Mufrad, which is a collection of hadiths on ethics and manners, as well as two books containing biographies of hadith narrators (see isnad). Jurisprudence is essentially the theory and philosophy of law. ... Sharia (Arabic شريعة also Sharia, Shariah or Syariah) is traditional Islamic law. ... Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nisaburi (Arabic: أبو الحسين مسلم بن الحجاج القشيري النيسابوري) (born 204 A.H. - 261 (or 268?) A.H/ 875), Muslim Author of the second most widely recognized collection of Hadith in Sunni Islam. ... Ethics (from Greek ἦθος meaning custom) is the branch of axiology, one of the four major branches of philosophy, which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to distinguish that which is right from that which is wrong. ... The isnad (Arabic اسناد or in Quranic era Arabic اسند) are the citations or backings that establish the legitimacy of the hadith, which are the sayings of Muhammad, Prophet of Islam. ...

It is said by the age of 10, Imam Bukhari had memorised 70000 hadith by heart with their complete chain of narrations going from him to his teacher, and his teacher's teacher, all the way to Muhammad.

On one occasion, it is said that he was travelling on a boat and had 500 gold coins with him to get him through his journey. While at sea, one of the people on the boat saw his money, and out of greed, he began screaming "I had 500 gold coins and someone has stolen it". At that moment, Imam Bukhari threw his 500 gold coins in to the ocean. The whole boat was searched and no 500 gold coins was found. After arriving at their destination, the man asked Imam Bukhari, "what did you do with the money?", he replied, "I threw it in the ocean". Out of shock the man asked "why?". Imam Bukhari replied, "I am compiling a book of the hadith of the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him), I cannot allow anything to damage my reputation and discredit me".^{[citation needed]}

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Works

• Sahih Bukhari
• Al Adab Al Mufrad الأدب المفرد
• al-Tarikh al-Kabir The big history, containing biographies of narrators, with a rating of each
• al-Tarikh al-Saghir The little history

Sahih Bukhari is one of the Sunni Six Major Hadith collections, collected by Muhammad al-Bukhari who spent 16 years writing it. ...

References

• F. Wüstenfeld, Shâfi`iten, 78 ff.
• McG. de Slane's translation of Ibn Khallikan, i. 594 ff.
• Ignaz Goldziher, Mohammedanische Studien, ii. 157 ff.
• Nawawi, Biographical Dictionary 86 ff.
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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See also

• Hadith
• Isnad
• List of Islamic scholars

Hadith (Arabic: hadīth, Arabic pl. ... The isnad (Arabic اسناد or in Quranic era Arabic اسند) are the citations or backings that establish the legitimacy of the hadith, which are the sayings of Muhammad, Prophet of Islam. ... Islamic scholars are Muslim and non-Muslim scholars who work in one or more fields of Islamic studies. ...

External links

• English Translation of Sahih Al Bukhari
• Arabic Text of Sahih Al Bukhari الجامع الصحيح, with one of the most famous of its commentary by Ibn Hajar Fath al-Bari فتح الباري
• Al Adab Al Mufrad الأدب المفرد
• Ahmad Mujtaba Hasan. Bukhari. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 1845110951.