It contains 7,275 Hadiths, which he chose from the large number of Hadiths that he had collected.Ģ. It is for this reason, they unanimously agreed that the most authentic book after the Book of Allah is Sahih Al-Bukhari.ġ. Many religious scholars of Islam tried to find fault in the great remarkable collection, but all in vain. In his time, the schools of law had been generally established and his objective was to catalogue the traditions he regarded as authentic in relation to their respective topics of jurisprudence.īefore he recorded each Hadith, he would perform ablution and offer a two-Rak’ah prayer and supplicate to Allah. He grouped the traditions of the Prophet under various headings dealing with specific points of Islamic jurisprudence. Imam Al-Bukhari died in his hometown, Bukhara in the territory of Khurasan (West Turkistan), in the year 256H. It was also the first book to contain only authentic Hadiths, while previous books contained authentic and non-authentic Hadiths, as well as sayings of the companions and others. However, his book ‘Sahih Al-Bukhari’, stands out for being the most authentic book of Hadith. He wrote many books especially on the bibliography of Hadeeth narrators and other books on various issues of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). It is said that Imam Al-Bukhari collected over 300,000 Hadiths and he himself memorized 200,000 of which some were unreliable.
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