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Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari (Arabic: صَحِيحُ الْبُخَارِي, romanizedṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī) is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. It was compiled by Persian scholar al-Bukhari (d. 870) around 846. The author was born in Bukhara in today's Uzbekistan.

Sahih al-Bukhari
AuthorMuḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī
LanguageArabic
GenreHadith collection
ISBN978-1-56744-519-0
OCLC47899632
Original text
Sahih al-Bukhari at Arabic Wikisource

Alongside Sahih Muslim, it is one of the most valued books in Sunni Islam after the Quran. Both books are part of the six major Sunni collections of hadith of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It consists of an estimated 7,563 hadith narrations across its 97 chapters.

Sahih (صحيح) means "authentic". The original name of the work is Al-Jami Al-Musnad Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar Min Umur Rasul Allah Sallá Allah Alayhi Wa-Sallam Wa-Sunanihi Wa-Ayyamihi (الجامع المسند الصحيح المختصر من أُمور رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلّم وسننه وأيامه), which means "The shortened authentic (sahih) collection with isnads from the affairs of the Messenger, peace be upon Him, and His traditions and His days".

Content edit

Sources differ on the exact number of hadiths in Sahih al-Bukhari, with definitions of hadith varying from a prophetic tradition or sunnah, or a narration of that tradition. Experts have estimated the number of full-isnad narrations in the Sahih at 7,563, with the number reducing to around 2,600 without considerations to repetitions or different versions of the same hadith. Bukhari chose these narrations from a collection of 600,000 narrations he had collected over 16 years.[1][2] The narrations are distributed across 97 chapters covering fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), among other subjects. Each chapter contains references to relevant verses from the Quran.[3][4] It provides proper Islamic guidance in almost all aspects of Muslim life such as the method of performing prayers and other actions of worship directly from Muhammad.

Development edit

Collection edit

It is reported that Bukhari traveled widely throughout the Abbasid Caliphate from the age of 16. Bukhari found the earlier hadith collections including both ṣaḥīḥ (authentic, sound)[5][6] and hasan narrations. He also found that many of them included daʻīf (weak) narrations. This aroused his interest in compiling hadith whose authenticity was beyond doubt.[1]

What further strengthened his resolve was something his teacher and contemporary hadith scholar Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh had told him. Bukhari narrates, "We were with Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh who said, "If only you would compile a book of only authentic narrations of the Prophet." This suggestion remained in my heart so I began compiling the Sahih." Bukhari also said, "I saw the Prophet in a dream and it was as if I was standing in front of him. In my hand was a fan with which I was protecting him. I asked some dream interpreters, who said to me, 'You will protect him from lies'. This is what compelled me to produce the Sahih."[1][7]

Bukhari imposed four conditions the narrators of a hadith must meet, in order for the narration to be included in his Sahih:[8][9]

  • being just,
  • possessing strong memory and all the scholars who possess great knowledge of hadith must agree upon the narrators' ability to learn and memorize, along with their reporting techniques,
  • complete isnad without any missing narrators,
  • consecutive narrators in the chain must meet each other.

Bukhari began organizing his book in the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, before moving to the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina.[10] Bukhari completed writing the book in Bukhara around 846 (232 AH), before showing it to his teachers for examination and verification. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani quoted Abu Jaʿfar al-'Uqaili as saying, "After Bukhari had written the Sahih, he showed it to Ali ibn al-Madini, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Yahya ibn Ma'in as well as others. They examined it and testified to its authenticity with the exception of four hadith." Ibn Hajar then concluded with al-'Uqaili's saying, "And those four are as Bukhari said, they are authentic."[11] Bukhari spent the last twenty-four years of his life visiting other cities and scholars, making minor revisions to his book and teaching the hadith he had collected. In every city that Bukhari visited, thousands of people would gather to listen to him recite traditions.[12]

Transmission edit

 
Single volume of the Sahih al-Bukhari, from later 14th or early 15th century, in the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art

Each version of the Sahih is named by its narrator. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in his book Nukat asserts the number of narrations is the same in each version. There are many books that noted differences between the different versions, the best known being Fath al-Bari. The version transmitted by Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Firabri (died 932), a trusted student of Bukhari, is the most famous version of the Sahih al-Bukhari today. All modern printed version are derived from this version. Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi quoted al-Firabri in History of Baghdad: "About seventy thousand people heard Sahih Bukhari with me." al-Firabri is not the only transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari. Many others narrated the book, including Ibrahim ibn Ma'qal (died 907), Hammad ibn Shakir (died 923), Mansur Burduzi (died 931) and Husain Mahamili (died 941).[13]

Transmission from Bukhari to present day:[14] edit

From later to earlier -

  1. Yemani sheikh Habib al-Jafri/Jifri
  2. Imam Ahmad bin Abd al-Rahman al-Saqqaf
  3. His sheikh Imam Ali bin Muhammad al-Habashi
  4. His sheikh Imam Aidaroos bin Omar al-Habashi
  5. Musnad of Hadhramaut
  6. Nahhat al-Fattah al-Fatir
  7. His sheikh Imam Abdullah bin Ahmad Basudan
  8. His sheikh Mr. Imam Omar bin Abdul Rahman al-Bar
  9. His sheikh Mr. Al-Baqiyya, Hamid bin Omar bin Hamid Al Abi Alawi
  10. His sheikh Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah Belfaqih
  11. His sheikh Al-Musnad Al-Hasan bin Ali Al-Ujaimi and Sheikh Ahmed bin Muhammad Al-Mathili
  12. His sheikh Muhammad bin Alaa Al-Din Al-Babli
  13. Abu Al-Najah Salem bin Muhammad Al-Samhouri
  14. Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Ghaiti
  15. Sheikh al-Islam Zakaria ibn Muhammad al-Ansari
  16. Hafiz Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
  17. sheikh Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Tanukhi and Abd al-Rahim ibn Razin al-Hamwi
  18. Abu al-Fadl Ahmad ibn Abi Talib al-Hajjar
  19. Al-Hussein al-Mubarak al-Zubaidi
  20. Abu Al-Waqt Abdul Awal bin Issa Al-Harawi
  21. Abu Al-Hasan Abdul Rahman bin Al-Muzaffar Al-Daoudi
  22. Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Ahmed Al-Sarkhasi
  23. Abu Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Yusuf bin Matar Al-Farbari
  24. Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail Al-Bukhari

Manuscripts edit

The Orientalist Manjana said in Cambridge in 1936 that the oldest manuscript he had come across up to that point was written in 984 CE/370 AH, according to the narration of al-Mirwazi from al-Farbari.[15] The oldest full manuscript which was printed by ISAM is from 1155/550 AH.[16] As is the norm in hadith studies, Bukhari would have recited his Sahih to a large number of his students who would not only listen to it, but memorise it word for word from him and copy it in its entirety. Students would then check their own copies against Bukhari’s personal copy and would only receive permission to transmit and teach once Bukhari himself was happy with their ability to do so. This way, the isnad (chain of narration) would be traceable and also have multiple routes back to the teacher.

Derived works edit

The oldest full manuscript is a version on the narration of Abu Dharr al-Heravi (died 1043) written in Maghrebi script, present in the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul is from 1155 (550 AH).[17] Another manuscript that is hand-transcribed by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Yazdan Bakhsh Bengali in Ekdala, Eastern Bengal is well preserved in Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library. The manuscript was a gift to the Sultan of Bengal Alauddin Husain Shah.[18]

Commentaries edit

 
Fath al-Bari by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

The number of detailed commentaries on the Sahih are numbered around 400,[19] including Fayd al-Bari ala Sahih al-Bukhari and Anwar al-Bari sharh Sahih al-Bukhari by Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Lami al-Darari ala Jami al-Bukhari by Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Tafsir al-Gharib ma fi al-Sahihayn by al-Humaydī (died 1095), Ibn Kathir's (died 1373) Sharh, Fath al-Bari by Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani (died 852 AH),[20] Al-Tawshih by al-Suyuti (died 1505), Irshad al-Sari by al-Qastallani (died 1517),[20][21] Umdat al-Qari by Badr al-Din al-Ayni,[20] and Al-Tanqih by al-Zarkashi (died 1392), Kashf al-Bari Amma fi Sahih al-Bukhari by Saleemullah Khan. Modern commentaries are also written by Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri, Kausar Yazdani, Muhammad Taqi Usmani,[22] and Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalawi.[23]

Few scholars have commented on Bukhari's reasons behind naming the chapters in his Sahih, known as tarjumat al-bab.[24] Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani is noted to be one of them. Shah Waliullah Dehlawi had mentioned 14 reasons, later modified by Mahmud al-Hasan to make it 15. Kandhlawi is noted to have found as many as 70, even writing a book on the topic, Al-Abwab wa al-Tarajim li Sahih al-Bukhari.[23][24]

Translations edit

 
9-volume Sahih al-Bukhari in English

Sahih al-Bukhari was originally translated into English by Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan, titled The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih al-Bukhari: Arabic-English (1971),[25] derived from the Arabic text of Fath Al-Bari, published by the Egyptian Maktabat wa-Maṭba'at Muṣṭafá al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī in 1959.[26] It is published by Al Saadawi Publications and Darussalam Publishers and is included in the USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts.[27] Large numbers of hadith narrations included in Hilali and Khan's work have been translated by Muhammad Ali and Thomas Cleary. The book is also available in numerous languages, including Urdu, Bengali, Bosnian, Tamil, Malayalam, Albanian, Malay, and Hindi, among others.[28]

In 2019, the Arabic Virtual Translation Center in New York translated and published the first complete English translation of Sahih al-Bukhari titled Encyclopedia of Sahih Al-Bukhari, including explanatory notes, a glossary of every term, and biographies of all narrators in the isnad.[9]

Reception edit

Sunni Muslims regard Sahih al-Bukhari as one of the two most important books among the Kutub al-Sittah alongside the Sahih Muslim, written by al-Bukhari's student Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. The two books are known as the Sahihayn (The Two Sahihs).[4][29][30] Al-Nawawi wrote about Sahih al-Bukhari, "The scholars, may God have mercy on them, have agreed that the most authentic book after the dear Quran are the two Sahihs of Bukhari and Muslim."[31] Siddiq Hasan Khan (died 1890) wrote, "All of the Salaf and Khalaf assert that the most authentic book after the book of Allah is Sahih al-Bukhari and then Sahih Muslim."[32]

In the Introduction to the Science of Hadith, Ibn al-Salah wrote: "The first to author a Sahih was Bukhari [...], followed by Abū al-Ḥusayn Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj an-Naysābūrī al-Qushayrī, who was his student, sharing many of the same teachers. These two books are the most authentic books after the Quran. As for the statement of al-Shafi'i, who said, "I do not know of a book containing knowledge more correct than Malik's book [Muwatta Imam Malik]", [...] he said this before the books of Bukhari and Muslim. "The book of Bukhari is the more authentic of the two and more useful."[33] Ibn al-Salah also quoted Bukhari as having said, "I have not included in the book [Sahih al-Bukhari] other than what is authentic and I did not include other authentic hadith for the sake of brevity."[33] In addition, al-Dhahabi quoted Bukhari as having said, "I have memorized one hundred thousand authentic hadith and two hundred thousand which are less than authentic."[34]

Criticism edit

Criticism has also been directed at apparent contradictions within Bukhari regarding the ahruf of the Quran. Some narrations state the Quran was revealed only in the dialect of Muhammad's tribe, the Quraysh, while others state it was revealed in seven ahruf.[35][36][37] Certain prophetic medicine and remedies espoused in Bukhari, such as cupping, have been noted for being unscientific.[38] Sunni scholar Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, on the basis of contrary archaeological evidence, criticised the hadith[39] which claimed that Adam's height was 60 cubits and human height has been decreasing ever since.[40]

Other hadiths contradict historical facts: e.g. hadith number 1221 implies Abu Sufyan ibn Harb died in Shām when he actually died in Medina; hadith number 5,560 says Muhammad died at 60 years old, instead of the actual 63 years old;[41] there are also serious contradictions between hadiths regarding the timing of Qadr Night.[42]

In the 2003 book The Idea of Women in Fundamentalist Islam, Lamia Shehadeh used gender theory to critique an ahaad hadith about women's leadership.[43][44] Another hadith reported by Abu Hurairah was criticized by Fatema Mernissi for being reported out of context and without any further clarification in the Sahih. The clarification is given in a hadith reported by Aisha in al-Zarkashi's (1344–1392) hadith collection. According to Charles Kurzman, this case raises the question of whether other narrations in Bukhari have been reported incompletely or lack proper context.[45] In 2017, Rachid Aylal, a Quranist, published a book criticizing the Sahih, titled Sahih Al-Bukhari: The End of a Legend. It was banned in Morocco for disturbing spiritual security, due to pressure from Islamists.[46][47]

On August 29, 2022, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has included Sahih al-Bukhari into the federal list of extremist materials (except containing surahs, ayahs and quotes from the Quran) after the Supreme Court of Tatarstan supported the Laishevo District Court's decision to recognize the Sahih as extremist with its appellate ruling of July 5, 2022.[48][49]

See also edit

Notes edit

Citations edit

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  4. ^ a b "Introduction to Translation of Sahih Bukhari". International Islamic University Malaysia – Garden of Knowledge and Virtue. from the original on 2021-06-23. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
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  7. ^ al-Asqalani, Ibn Hajar. Hady al-Sari, the introduction to Fath al-Bari. Darussalam Publications. pp. 8–9.
  8. ^ "About - Sahih al-Bukhari - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)". sunnah.com. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
  9. ^ a b Arabic Virtual Translation Center (2022). Encyclopedia of Sahih al-Bukhari (9th ed.). New York City: Arabic Virtual Translation Center. ISBN 9780359672653.
  10. ^ Khan, Muhammad Siddiq. Al Hittah fi Dhikr al-Sihah al-Sittah (in Arabic). Dar al-Jeel. p. 178.
  11. ^ Hady al-Sari, pg. 684.
  12. ^ al-Asqalani, Ibn Hajar. Fath al-Bari (in Arabic). Dar al-Ma'rifa. p. 489.
  13. ^ Ahmed, Hussain (2020-07-17). "Why Imam al-Firabri: The student of Imam al-Bukhari and transmitter of his Sahih was trustworthy (thiqa)". Darul Tahqiq. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  14. ^ "سند الحبيب علي الجفري في رواية الجامع الصحيح" [The chain of transmission of Habib Ali Al-Jifri in the narration of Al-Jami’ Al-Sahih] (in Arabic).
  15. ^ See Tareekh at-Turaath by Fu’aad Sizkeen (1/228).
  16. ^ EL-CÂMİ‘U’S-SAHÎHU’L-MÜSNEDÜ’L-MUHTASAR MİN HADÎSİ RASÛLİLLÂH SALLALLÂHU ALEYHİ VE SELLEM SAHÎH-İ BUHÂRÎ – Tıpkıbasım, İSAM, İstanbul 2018
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  18. ^ Mawlana Nur Muhammad Azmi. "2.2 বঙ্গে এলমে হাদীছ" [2.2 Knowledge of Hadith in Bengal]. হাদীছের তত্ত্ব ও ইতিহাস [Information and history of Hadith] (in Bengali). Emdadia Library. p. 24.
  19. ^ . ahadithnotes.com. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
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  21. ^ Lewis, B.; Menage, V.L.; Pellat, Ch.; Schacht, J. (1997) [1st. pub. 1978]. Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. IV (Iran-Kha) (New ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 736. ISBN 9004078193.
  22. ^ "Dars E Nizami Dora E Hadees 8th Year". archive.org.
  23. ^ a b "Anak Pendang Sekeluarga: Kanzul Mutawari Dan Sumbangan Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalawi rah". wirapendang.blogspot.my. April 2014. from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
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  25. ^ Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl; بخارس، محمد بن اسماعيل. (1997). Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī : the translation of the meanings of Sahih al-Bukhari : Arabic-English. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, خان، محمد محسن. Riyadh-Saudi Arabia: Darussalam Pub. & Distr. ISBN 9960-717-31-3. OCLC 38433341.
  26. ^ al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Ḥajar (1959). Fatḥ al-bārī bi-sharḥ al-Bukhārī. Cairo: Maktabat wa-Maṭbaʻat Muṣṭafá al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī. OCLC 7902764.
  27. ^ . Usc.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
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  30. ^ Koenig, Harold G. (2014). Health and well-being in Islamic societies : background, research, and applications. Saad Al Shohaib. Cham [Switzerland]. ISBN 978-3-319-05873-3. OCLC 880374211.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  31. ^ al-Nawawi, Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Sharaf (1972). Al Minhaj, Sharh Sahih Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (in Arabic) (2nd ed.). Beirut: Dar Ihya' al-Turath al-Arabi. p. 14.
  32. ^ Khan, Muhammad Siddiq. Al Hittah fi Dhikr al-Sihah al-Sittah (in Arabic). Dar al-Jeel. p. 225.
  33. ^ a b Introduction to the Science of Hadith (Dar al-Ma’aarif ed.). Dar al-Ma’aarif. pp. 160–169.
  34. ^ Tadhkirat al-huffaz, vol. 2 pgs. 104-5, al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah edition.
  35. ^ Melchert 2008, p. 83.
  36. ^ "Virtues of the Qur'an. Book 61, Number 507". Sahih al-Bukhari
  37. ^ Shamoun, Sam. "The Seven Ahruf and Multiple Qiraat – A Quranic Perspective". Answering Islam.
  38. ^ Leslie, Charles Miller, ed. (1976). Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study (reprint ed.). University of California Press. pp. 57–8. ISBN 9780520035119.
  39. ^ "Sahih al-Bukhari 6227". from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017. Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "Allah created Adam in His picture, sixty cubits (about 30 meters) in height. When He created him, He said (to him), "Go and greet that group of angels sitting there, and listen what they will say in reply to you, for that will be your greeting and the greeting of your offspring." Adam (went and) said, 'As-Salamu alaikum (Peace be upon you).' They replied, 'AsSalamu-'Alaika wa Rahmatullah (Peace and Allah's Mercy be on you) So they increased 'Wa Rahmatullah' The Prophet added 'So whoever will enter Paradise, will be of the shape and picture of Adam Since then the creation of Adam's (offspring) (i.e. stature of human beings is being diminished continuously) to the present time."
  40. ^ Islam and the Modern Age, Volume 29. Islam and the Modern Age Society. 1998. p. 39. The hadith, reported by al-Bukhari, to the effect that Adam's height was sixty cubits, has been criticised by Ibn Hajar on the basis of archaeological measurements of the homesteads of some ancient peoples, which show that their inhabitants were not of an abnormal height.
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  43. ^ Lamia Rustum Shehadeh (2003). The Idea of Women in Fundamentalist Islam. University Press of Florida. p. 229. ISBN 9780813031354.
  44. ^ "Sahih al-Bukhari 7099". from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016. Narrated Abu Bakr: During the battle of Al-Jamal, Allah benefited me with a Word (I heard from the Prophet). When the Prophet heard the news that the people of the Persia had made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen (ruler), he said, "Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler."
  45. ^ Charles Kurzman (1998). Kurzman, Charles (ed.). Liberal Islam: A Source Book. Oxford University Press. p. 123. ISBN 9780195116229.
  46. ^ "Morocco Bans a Book Critical of Al-Bukhari as it Threatens Spiritual Security". 20 April 2018. from the original on 2020-04-11. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  47. ^ "رضا يوسف احمودى: بين "القرآنيين" و"البخاريين" حوار أم جدل؟ - رأي اليوم". from the original on 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  48. ^ "Ban of "Sahih al-Bukhari" angers Kadyrov". eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu. 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  49. ^ "search "Sahih" - Federal List of Extremist Materials :: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation". minjust.gov.ru (in Russian). 2022-08-29. Retrieved 2023-01-17.

External links edit

  • The Translation and the Meanings of Sahîh Al-Bukhâri: Arabic-English, trans. by Muhammad Muhsin Khan, ndw edn, 9 vols (Riyadh: Darussalam, 1997); also digitised in html
  • – Translation by Muhammad Muhsin Khan from Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement (USC-MSA)
  • A Manual of Hadith by Muhammad Ali, pdf – a selected compendium of Sahih al-Bukhari with commentary

sahih, bukhari, arabic, يح, ال, ار, romanized, Ṣaḥīḥ, bukhārī, first, hadith, collection, books, sunni, islam, compiled, persian, scholar, bukhari, around, author, born, bukhara, today, uzbekistan, authormuḥammad, ismā, bukhārīlanguagearabicgenrehadith, collec. Sahih al Bukhari Arabic ص ح يح ال ب خ ار ي romanized Ṣaḥiḥ al Bukhari is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam It was compiled by Persian scholar al Bukhari d 870 around 846 The author was born in Bukhara in today s Uzbekistan Sahih al BukhariAuthorMuḥammad ibn Isma il al BukhariLanguageArabicGenreHadith collectionISBN978 1 56744 519 0OCLC47899632Original textSahih al Bukhari at Arabic WikisourceAlongside Sahih Muslim it is one of the most valued books in Sunni Islam after the Quran Both books are part of the six major Sunni collections of hadith of the Islamic prophet Muhammad It consists of an estimated 7 563 hadith narrations across its 97 chapters Sahih صحيح means authentic The original name of the work is Al Jami Al Musnad Al Sahih Al Mukhtasar Min Umur Rasul Allah Salla Allah Alayhi Wa Sallam Wa Sunanihi Wa Ayyamihi الجامع المسند الصحيح المختصر من أ مور رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسل م وسننه وأيامه which means The shortened authentic sahih collection with isnads from the affairs of the Messenger peace be upon Him and His traditions and His days Contents 1 Content 2 Development 2 1 Collection 2 2 Transmission 2 2 1 Transmission from Bukhari to present day 14 2 3 Manuscripts 3 Derived works 3 1 Commentaries 3 2 Translations 4 Reception 4 1 Criticism 5 See also 6 Notes 7 Citations 8 External linksContent editSources differ on the exact number of hadiths in Sahih al Bukhari with definitions of hadith varying from a prophetic tradition or sunnah or a narration of that tradition Experts have estimated the number of full isnad narrations in the Sahih at 7 563 with the number reducing to around 2 600 without considerations to repetitions or different versions of the same hadith Bukhari chose these narrations from a collection of 600 000 narrations he had collected over 16 years 1 2 The narrations are distributed across 97 chapters covering fiqh Islamic jurisprudence among other subjects Each chapter contains references to relevant verses from the Quran 3 4 It provides proper Islamic guidance in almost all aspects of Muslim life such as the method of performing prayers and other actions of worship directly from Muhammad Development editCollection edit It is reported that Bukhari traveled widely throughout the Abbasid Caliphate from the age of 16 Bukhari found the earlier hadith collections including both ṣaḥiḥ authentic sound 5 6 and hasan narrations He also found that many of them included daʻif weak narrations This aroused his interest in compiling hadith whose authenticity was beyond doubt 1 What further strengthened his resolve was something his teacher and contemporary hadith scholar Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh had told him Bukhari narrates We were with Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh who said If only you would compile a book of only authentic narrations of the Prophet This suggestion remained in my heart so I began compiling the Sahih Bukhari also said I saw the Prophet in a dream and it was as if I was standing in front of him In my hand was a fan with which I was protecting him I asked some dream interpreters who said to me You will protect him from lies This is what compelled me to produce the Sahih 1 7 Bukhari imposed four conditions the narrators of a hadith must meet in order for the narration to be included in his Sahih 8 9 being just possessing strong memory and all the scholars who possess great knowledge of hadith must agree upon the narrators ability to learn and memorize along with their reporting techniques complete isnad without any missing narrators consecutive narrators in the chain must meet each other Bukhari began organizing his book in the Masjid al Haram in Mecca before moving to the Al Masjid an Nabawi in Medina 10 Bukhari completed writing the book in Bukhara around 846 232 AH before showing it to his teachers for examination and verification Ibn Hajar al Asqalani quoted Abu Jaʿfar al Uqaili as saying After Bukhari had written the Sahih he showed it to Ali ibn al Madini Ahmad ibn Hanbal Yahya ibn Ma in as well as others They examined it and testified to its authenticity with the exception of four hadith Ibn Hajar then concluded with al Uqaili s saying And those four are as Bukhari said they are authentic 11 Bukhari spent the last twenty four years of his life visiting other cities and scholars making minor revisions to his book and teaching the hadith he had collected In every city that Bukhari visited thousands of people would gather to listen to him recite traditions 12 Transmission edit nbsp Single volume of the Sahih al Bukhari from later 14th or early 15th century in the Khalili Collection of Islamic ArtEach version of the Sahih is named by its narrator Ibn Hajar al Asqalani in his book Nukat asserts the number of narrations is the same in each version There are many books that noted differences between the different versions the best known being Fath al Bari The version transmitted by Muhammad ibn Yusuf al Firabri died 932 a trusted student of Bukhari is the most famous version of the Sahih al Bukhari today All modern printed version are derived from this version Al Khatib al Baghdadi quoted al Firabri in History of Baghdad About seventy thousand people heard Sahih Bukhari with me al Firabri is not the only transmitter of Sahih al Bukhari Many others narrated the book including Ibrahim ibn Ma qal died 907 Hammad ibn Shakir died 923 Mansur Burduzi died 931 and Husain Mahamili died 941 13 Transmission from Bukhari to present day 14 edit From later to earlier Yemani sheikh Habib al Jafri Jifri Imam Ahmad bin Abd al Rahman al Saqqaf His sheikh Imam Ali bin Muhammad al Habashi His sheikh Imam Aidaroos bin Omar al Habashi Musnad of Hadhramaut Nahhat al Fattah al Fatir His sheikh Imam Abdullah bin Ahmad Basudan His sheikh Mr Imam Omar bin Abdul Rahman al Bar His sheikh Mr Al Baqiyya Hamid bin Omar bin Hamid Al Abi Alawi His sheikh Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah Belfaqih His sheikh Al Musnad Al Hasan bin Ali Al Ujaimi and Sheikh Ahmed bin Muhammad Al Mathili His sheikh Muhammad bin Alaa Al Din Al Babli Abu Al Najah Salem bin Muhammad Al Samhouri Muhammad bin Ahmad al Ghaiti Sheikh al Islam Zakaria ibn Muhammad al Ansari Hafiz Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Hajar al Asqalani sheikh Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al Tanukhi and Abd al Rahim ibn Razin al Hamwi Abu al Fadl Ahmad ibn Abi Talib al Hajjar Al Hussein al Mubarak al Zubaidi Abu Al Waqt Abdul Awal bin Issa Al Harawi Abu Al Hasan Abdul Rahman bin Al Muzaffar Al Daoudi Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Sarkhasi Abu Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Yusuf bin Matar Al Farbari Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail Al BukhariManuscripts edit The Orientalist Manjana said in Cambridge in 1936 that the oldest manuscript he had come across up to that point was written in 984 CE 370 AH according to the narration of al Mirwazi from al Farbari 15 The oldest full manuscript which was printed by ISAM is from 1155 550 AH 16 As is the norm in hadith studies Bukhari would have recited his Sahih to a large number of his students who would not only listen to it but memorise it word for word from him and copy it in its entirety Students would then check their own copies against Bukhari s personal copy and would only receive permission to transmit and teach once Bukhari himself was happy with their ability to do so This way the isnad chain of narration would be traceable and also have multiple routes back to the teacher Derived works editThe oldest full manuscript is a version on the narration of Abu Dharr al Heravi died 1043 written in Maghrebi script present in the Suleymaniye Library in Istanbul is from 1155 550 AH 17 Another manuscript that is hand transcribed by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Yazdan Bakhsh Bengali in Ekdala Eastern Bengal is well preserved in Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library The manuscript was a gift to the Sultan of Bengal Alauddin Husain Shah 18 Commentaries edit nbsp Fath al Bari by Ibn Hajar al AsqalaniThe number of detailed commentaries on the Sahih are numbered around 400 19 including Fayd al Bari ala Sahih al Bukhari and Anwar al Bari sharh Sahih al Bukhari by Anwar Shah Kashmiri Lami al Darari ala Jami al Bukhari by Rashid Ahmad Gangohi Tafsir al Gharib ma fi al Sahihayn by al Humaydi died 1095 Ibn Kathir s died 1373 Sharh Fath al Bari by Ibn Hajar al Asqalani died 852 AH 20 Al Tawshih by al Suyuti died 1505 Irshad al Sari by al Qastallani died 1517 20 21 Umdat al Qari by Badr al Din al Ayni 20 and Al Tanqih by al Zarkashi died 1392 Kashf al Bari Amma fi Sahih al Bukhari by Saleemullah Khan Modern commentaries are also written by Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri Kausar Yazdani Muhammad Taqi Usmani 22 and Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalawi 23 Few scholars have commented on Bukhari s reasons behind naming the chapters in his Sahih known as tarjumat al bab 24 Ibn Hajar al Asqalani is noted to be one of them Shah Waliullah Dehlawi had mentioned 14 reasons later modified by Mahmud al Hasan to make it 15 Kandhlawi is noted to have found as many as 70 even writing a book on the topic Al Abwab wa al Tarajim li Sahih al Bukhari 23 24 Translations edit nbsp 9 volume Sahih al Bukhari in EnglishSahih al Bukhari was originally translated into English by Muhammad Taqi ud Din al Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan titled The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih al Bukhari Arabic English 1971 25 derived from the Arabic text of Fath Al Bari published by the Egyptian Maktabat wa Maṭba at Muṣṭafa al Babi al Ḥalabi in 1959 26 It is published by Al Saadawi Publications and Darussalam Publishers and is included in the USC MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts 27 Large numbers of hadith narrations included in Hilali and Khan s work have been translated by Muhammad Ali and Thomas Cleary The book is also available in numerous languages including Urdu Bengali Bosnian Tamil Malayalam Albanian Malay and Hindi among others 28 In 2019 the Arabic Virtual Translation Center in New York translated and published the first complete English translation of Sahih al Bukhari titled Encyclopedia of Sahih Al Bukhari including explanatory notes a glossary of every term and biographies of all narrators in the isnad 9 Reception editSunni Muslims regard Sahih al Bukhari as one of the two most important books among the Kutub al Sittah alongside the Sahih Muslim written by al Bukhari s student Muslim ibn al Hajjaj The two books are known as the Sahihayn The Two Sahihs 4 29 30 Al Nawawi wrote about Sahih al Bukhari The scholars may God have mercy on them have agreed that the most authentic book after the dear Quran are the two Sahihs of Bukhari and Muslim 31 Siddiq Hasan Khan died 1890 wrote All of the Salaf and Khalaf assert that the most authentic book after the book of Allah is Sahih al Bukhari and then Sahih Muslim 32 In the Introduction to the Science of Hadith Ibn al Salah wrote The first to author a Sahih was Bukhari followed by Abu al Ḥusayn Muslim ibn al Ḥajjaj an Naysaburi al Qushayri who was his student sharing many of the same teachers These two books are the most authentic books after the Quran As for the statement of al Shafi i who said I do not know of a book containing knowledge more correct than Malik s book Muwatta Imam Malik he said this before the books of Bukhari and Muslim The book of Bukhari is the more authentic of the two and more useful 33 Ibn al Salah also quoted Bukhari as having said I have not included in the book Sahih al Bukhari other than what is authentic and I did not include other authentic hadith for the sake of brevity 33 In addition al Dhahabi quoted Bukhari as having said I have memorized one hundred thousand authentic hadith and two hundred thousand which are less than authentic 34 Criticism edit Criticism has also been directed at apparent contradictions within Bukhari regarding the ahruf of the Quran Some narrations state the Quran was revealed only in the dialect of Muhammad s tribe the Quraysh while others state it was revealed in seven ahruf 35 36 37 Certain prophetic medicine and remedies espoused in Bukhari such as cupping have been noted for being unscientific 38 Sunni scholar Ibn Hajar al Asqalani on the basis of contrary archaeological evidence criticised the hadith 39 which claimed that Adam s height was 60 cubits and human height has been decreasing ever since 40 Other hadiths contradict historical facts e g hadith number 1221 implies Abu Sufyan ibn Harb died in Sham when he actually died in Medina hadith number 5 560 says Muhammad died at 60 years old instead of the actual 63 years old 41 there are also serious contradictions between hadiths regarding the timing of Qadr Night 42 In the 2003 book The Idea of Women in Fundamentalist Islam Lamia Shehadeh used gender theory to critique an ahaad hadith about women s leadership 43 44 Another hadith reported by Abu Hurairah was criticized by Fatema Mernissi for being reported out of context and without any further clarification in the Sahih The clarification is given in a hadith reported by Aisha in al Zarkashi s 1344 1392 hadith collection According to Charles Kurzman this case raises the question of whether other narrations in Bukhari have been reported incompletely or lack proper context 45 In 2017 Rachid Aylal a Quranist published a book criticizing the Sahih titled Sahih Al Bukhari The End of a Legend It was banned in Morocco for disturbing spiritual security due to pressure from Islamists 46 47 On August 29 2022 Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has included Sahih al Bukhari into the federal list of extremist materials except containing surahs ayahs and quotes from the Quran after the Supreme Court of Tatarstan supported the Laishevo District Court s decision to recognize the Sahih as extremist with its appellate ruling of July 5 2022 48 49 See also editMuhammad al Bukhari author of Sahih al Bukhari Sahih Muslim another Sahih collection of hadith narrations and the other of the Sahihayn Muslim ibn al Hajjaj author of Sahih Muslim and student of Muhammad al Bukhari Kutub al Sittah six most highly regarded collections of hadith in Sunni Islam one of which is Sahih al Bukhari Fath al Bari most highly regarded commentary on Sahih al Bukhari Ibn Hajar al Asqalani 15th century hadith scholar and author of Fath al BariNotes editCitations edit a b c About Sahih al Bukhari Sunnah com Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم sunnah com Archived from the original on 2021 10 23 Retrieved 2021 09 20 A C Brown Jonathan 2009 Hadith Muhammad s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World Foundations of Islam series Oneworld Publications p 32 ISBN 978 1851686636 Two most authentic books of Hadith GulfTimes 2021 11 04 Archived from the original on 2021 12 27 Retrieved 2021 12 27 a b Introduction to Translation of Sahih Bukhari International Islamic University Malaysia Garden of Knowledge and Virtue Archived from the original on 2021 06 23 Retrieved 2021 12 27 Meaning of sahih Islamic Dictionary com Archived from the original on February 10 2010 Retrieved 2010 05 13 Lang David Marshall ed 1971 Bukhari A Guide to Eastern Literatures Praeger p 33 ISBN 9780297002741 al Asqalani Ibn Hajar Hady al Sari the introduction to Fath al Bari Darussalam Publications pp 8 9 About Sahih al Bukhari Sunnah com Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم sunnah com Retrieved 2022 08 13 a b Arabic Virtual Translation Center 2022 Encyclopedia of Sahih al Bukhari 9th ed New York City Arabic Virtual Translation Center ISBN 9780359672653 Khan Muhammad Siddiq Al Hittah fi Dhikr al Sihah al Sittah in Arabic Dar al Jeel p 178 Hady al Sari pg 684 al Asqalani Ibn Hajar Fath al Bari in Arabic Dar al Ma rifa p 489 Ahmed Hussain 2020 07 17 Why Imam al Firabri The student of Imam al Bukhari and transmitter of his Sahih was trustworthy thiqa Darul Tahqiq Retrieved 2022 08 12 سند الحبيب علي الجفري في رواية الجامع الصحيح The chain of transmission of Habib Ali Al Jifri in the narration of Al Jami Al Sahih in Arabic See Tareekh at Turaath by Fu aad Sizkeen 1 228 EL CAMI U S SAHIHU L MUSNEDU L MUHTASAR MIN HADISI RASULILLAH SALLALLAHU ALEYHI VE SELLEM SAHIH I BUHARI Tipkibasim ISAM Istanbul 2018 Facsimile of the oldest Sahih al Bukhari Centre for Islamic Studies in Turkish Retrieved 2022 08 12 Mawlana Nur Muhammad Azmi 2 2 বঙ গ এলম হ দ ছ 2 2 Knowledge of Hadith in Bengal হ দ ছ র তত ত ব ও ইত হ স Information and history of Hadith in Bengali Emdadia Library p 24 An Overview of Ten Manuscripts of Ṣaḥiḥ al Bukhari ahadithnotes com Archived from the original on 2020 08 06 Retrieved 2019 02 28 a b c Gibb H A R Kramers J H Levi Provencal E Schacht J 1986 1st pub 1960 Encyclopaedia of Islam Vol I A B New ed Leiden Netherlands Brill p 1297 ISBN 9004081143 Lewis B Menage V L Pellat Ch Schacht J 1997 1st pub 1978 Encyclopaedia of Islam Vol IV Iran Kha New ed Leiden Netherlands Brill p 736 ISBN 9004078193 Dars E Nizami Dora E Hadees 8th Year archive org a b Anak Pendang Sekeluarga Kanzul Mutawari Dan Sumbangan Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalawi rah wirapendang blogspot my April 2014 Archived from the original on 2015 12 22 Retrieved 2015 10 10 a b www besturdubooks wordpress com Al Abwab Wat Tarajim Li Sahihul Bukhari via Internet Archive Bukhari Muḥammad ibn Ismaʻil بخارس محمد بن اسماعيل 1997 Ṣaḥiḥ al Bukhari the translation of the meanings of Sahih al Bukhari Arabic English Muhammad Muhsin Khan خان محمد محسن Riyadh Saudi Arabia Darussalam Pub amp Distr ISBN 9960 717 31 3 OCLC 38433341 al ʻAsqalani Aḥmad ibn ʻAli Ibn Ḥajar 1959 Fatḥ al bari bi sharḥ al Bukhari Cairo Maktabat wa Maṭbaʻat Muṣṭafa al Babi al Ḥalabi OCLC 7902764 Translation of Sahih Bukhari Usc edu Archived from the original on 2012 10 01 Retrieved 2010 09 26 Sahih Bukhari Multiple languages Australian Islamic Library Archived from the original on 2014 10 30 Retrieved 2014 10 31 Sahih Muslim Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم Sunnah com in Arabic Archived from the original on 2018 06 28 Retrieved 2021 12 27 Koenig Harold G 2014 Health and well being in Islamic societies background research and applications Saad Al Shohaib Cham Switzerland ISBN 978 3 319 05873 3 OCLC 880374211 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link al Nawawi Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Sharaf 1972 Al Minhaj Sharh Sahih Muslim ibn al Hajjaj in Arabic 2nd ed Beirut Dar Ihya al Turath al Arabi p 14 Khan Muhammad Siddiq Al Hittah fi Dhikr al Sihah al Sittah in Arabic Dar al Jeel p 225 a b Introduction to the Science of Hadith Dar al Ma aarif ed Dar al Ma aarif pp 160 169 Tadhkirat al huffaz vol 2 pgs 104 5 al Kutub al Ilmiyyah edition Melchert 2008 p 83 Virtues of the Qur an Book 61 Number 507 Sahih al Bukhari Shamoun Sam The Seven Ahruf and Multiple Qiraat A Quranic Perspective Answering Islam Leslie Charles Miller ed 1976 Asian Medical Systems A Comparative Study reprint ed University of California Press pp 57 8 ISBN 9780520035119 Sahih al Bukhari 6227 Archived from the original on 2 April 2017 Retrieved 1 April 2017 Narrated Abu Huraira The Prophet said Allah created Adam in His picture sixty cubits about 30 meters in height When He created him He said to him Go and greet that group of angels sitting there and listen what they will say in reply to you for that will be your greeting and the greeting of your offspring Adam went and said As Salamu alaikum Peace be upon you They replied AsSalamu Alaika wa Rahmatullah Peace and Allah s Mercy be on you So they increased Wa Rahmatullah The Prophet added So whoever will enter Paradise will be of the shape and picture of Adam Since then the creation of Adam s offspring i e stature of human beings is being diminished continuously to the present time Islam and the Modern Age Volume 29 Islam and the Modern Age Society 1998 p 39 The hadith reported by al Bukhari to the effect that Adam s height was sixty cubits has been criticised by Ibn Hajar on the basis of archaeological measurements of the homesteads of some ancient peoples which show that their inhabitants were not of an abnormal height Encyclopedia of Sahih Al Bukhari Section 17 Critique of Sahih Al Bukhari Arabic Virtual Translation Center 2021 ISBN 978 0 359 67265 3 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location link Encyclopedia of Sahih Al Bukhari Section 10 Conflict resolution Arabic Virtual Translation Center 2021 ISBN 978 0 359 67265 3 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location link Lamia Rustum Shehadeh 2003 The Idea of Women in Fundamentalist Islam University Press of Florida p 229 ISBN 9780813031354 Sahih al Bukhari 7099 Archived from the original on 10 November 2016 Retrieved 12 November 2016 Narrated Abu Bakr During the battle of Al Jamal Allah benefited me with a Word I heard from the Prophet When the Prophet heard the news that the people of the Persia had made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen ruler he said Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler Charles Kurzman 1998 Kurzman Charles ed Liberal Islam A Source Book Oxford University Press p 123 ISBN 9780195116229 Morocco Bans a Book Critical of Al Bukhari as it Threatens Spiritual Security 20 April 2018 Archived from the original on 2020 04 11 Retrieved 2020 04 11 رضا يوسف احمودى بين القرآنيين و البخاريين حوار أم جدل رأي اليوم Archived from the original on 2020 07 07 Retrieved 2020 07 06 Ban of Sahih al Bukhari angers Kadyrov eng kavkaz uzel eu 2022 09 01 Retrieved 2023 01 17 search Sahih Federal List of Extremist Materials Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation minjust gov ru in Russian 2022 08 29 Retrieved 2023 01 17 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sahih al Bukhari The Translation and the Meanings of Sahih Al Bukhari Arabic English trans by Muhammad Muhsin Khan ndw edn 9 vols Riyadh Darussalam 1997 also digitised in html Sahih Bukhari Translation by Muhammad Muhsin Khan from Center for Muslim Jewish Engagement USC MSA A Manual of Hadith by Muhammad Ali pdf a selected compendium 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