In Imam Bukhari’s “Al-Jami-al-Sahih’ (Sahih Al Bukhari) the Imam had recorded all the Sayings of the Prophet which he found to be genuine after thorough examination and scrutiny. He spent sixteen years in research and examined more than sixty thousand Sayings from which he selected some 7,275 Sayings whose genuineness and accuracy he established beyond the slightest doubt. Deducting duplicates, the Imam’s collection contain about four thousand distinct Sayings.
The text used for this Summary is based on Imam Zayn al-Din Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-Sharji al-Zubaydi (d. 893) the author of the abridged Sahih al-Bukhari [al-Tajrid al-Sarih].
About Imam Al-Bukhari
Amir al-Mu’minin fil Hadith, Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad b. Isma’il al-Ju’fi (194-256 AH/810-870 CE), better known to the world as Imam al-Bukhari was born in Bukhara, in modern-day Uzbekistan in 810. Raised an orphan, he excelled in the sciences of hadith and travelled much of the Islamic world in pursuit of knowledge and the preservation of the sunnah.
Acknowledged by his peers and students, including Ahmad b. Hanbal (d.855), Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (d. 875) and Muhammad b. ‘Isa al-Tirmidhi (d. 892), as one of the greatest imams of Islam, he holds a permanent place in Muslim scholarship. He died in the village of Khartank, Samarkand in 870 leaving behind a legacy of important reference works including his most magnum opus, Al-Jami’ al-Sahih, widely referred to as Sahih al-Bukhari, considered by Sunni Muslims as the most authentic book after the Qur’an.
About The Translator
Dr. Muhsin Khan was born in 1345 Al-Hijr (1927) in Qasur, a city of the Punjab Province, in Pakistan. His grandfathers emigrated from Afghanistan escaping from wars and tribal strife. Muhammad Muhsin belongs to the Afghan tribe AlKhoashki Al-Jamandi. The residence of his tribe was the valley of Afghastan south east of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
He is Formerly Director, University Hospital Islamic University, Al-Madinah AI-Munawwarah Saudi Arabia. He is a specialist of heart diseases who worked for sometime in England, then moved to Saudi Arabia , he has worked as the Director of El-Sadad Hospital (Ta’if) for the Chest Diseases, Chief of the Department of Chest Diseases in the King’s Hospital (Madina) and Director of the Islamic University Clinic, Al-Madinah.
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