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Al-Muwatta Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780–855) Sunan al-Darimi (868) Shamaail Tirmidhi ((9th Century) Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (923) Sahih Ibn Hibbaan (965) Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain (1014) Mawdu'at al-Kubra (1128–1217) Riyadh as-Saaliheen (1233–1278) Mishkat al-Masabih (1340) Talkhis al-Mustadrak (1274–1348) Majma al-Zawa'id (1335–1405) Bulugh al-Maram (1372–1449) Kanz al-Ummal (16th century) Muntakhab Ahadith (20th Century)
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Book of Sulaym ibn Qays (7th century) Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (678–713) Wasael ush-Shia (17th century) Bihar al-Anwar (17th century) Haqq al-Yaqeen (17th century) Ain Al-Hayat (17th century) Sharh Usul al-Kafi (?–1081) Qalam-e-Mowla Daim al-Islam
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Comments on the Peak of Eloquence (?–1258)
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Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (Arabic: صحيح البخاري‎), is one of the six canonical hadith collections (Al-Kutub Al-Sittah) of sunni Islam. These prophetic traditions, or hadith, were collected by the Persian Muslim scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, after being transmitted orally for generations. Sunni Muslims view this as one of the three most trusted collections of hadith along with Sahih Muslim and al-Muwatta ^[1]. In some circles, it is considered the most authentic book after the Qur'an.^[2][3] The Arabic word sahih translates as authentic or correct.^[4]

Actual title[link]

The actual title of the book commonly referred to as Sahih al-Bukhari, according to Ibn al-Salah, is: al-Jaami’ al-Sahih al-Musnad al-Mukhtasar min Umur Rasool Allah wa sunanihi wa Ayyamihi. A word for word translation is: The Abridged Collection of Authentic Hadith with Connected Chains regarding Matters Pertaining to the Prophet, His practices and His Times.^[3] Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani mentioned the same title replacing the word umur, matters, with hadith.^[5]

Overview[link]

Al-Bukhari traveled widely throughout the Abbasid empire from the age of 16, collecting those traditions he thought trustworthy. It is said that al-Bukhari collected over 300,000 hadith and included only 2,602 traditions in his Sahih.^[6] At the time when Bukhari saw [the earlier] works and conveyed them, he found them, in their presentation, combining between what would be considered sahih and hasan and that many of them included da’if hadith. This aroused his interest in compiling hadith whose authenticity was beyond doubt. What further strengthened his resolve was something his teacher, Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Hanthalee – better known as Ibn Rahoyah – had said. Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel al-Bukhari said, “We were with Ishaq ibn Rahoyah 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.”^[7]

The book covers almost all aspects of life in providing proper guidance of Islam such as the method of performing prayers and other actions of worship directly from the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Bukhari finished his work around 846, and spent the last twenty-four years of his life visiting other cities and scholars, teaching the hadith he had collected. In every city that he visited, thousands of people would gather in the main mosque to listen to him recite traditions. In reply to Western academic doubts as to the actual date and authorship of the book that bears his name, scholars point out that notable hadith scholars of that time, such as Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (855 CE/241 AH), Ibn Maīn (847 CE/233 AH), and Ibn Madīni (848 CE/234 AH), accepted the authenticity of his book^[8] and that the collection's immediate fame makes it unlikely that it could have been revised after the author's death.

During this period of twenty-four years, Bukhari made minor revisions to his book, notably the chapter headings. Each version is named by its narrator. According to Ibn Hajar Asqalani in his book Nukat, the number of hadiths in all versions is the same. The most famous one today is the version narrated by al-Firabri (d. 932 CE/320 AH), a trusted student of Bukhari. Khatib al-Baghdadi in his book History of Baghdad quoted Firabri as saying: "About seventy thousand people heard Sahih Bukhari with me".

Firabri is not the only transmitter of Sahih Bukhari. There were many others that narrated that book to later generations, such as Ibrahim ibn Ma'qal (d. 907 CE/295 AH), Hammad ibn Shaker (d. 923 CE/311 AH), Mansur Burduzi (d. 931 CE/319 AH) and Husain Mahamili (d. 941 CE/330 AH). There are many books that noted differences between these versions, the best known being Fath al-Bari.

Distinctive Features[link]

Amin Ahsan Islahi, the notable Islamic scholar, has listed three outstanding qualities of Sahih Bukhari ^[9]:

1. Quality and soundness of the chain of narrators of the selected ahādīth. Imam Bukhari has followed two principle criteria for selecting sound narratives. First, the lifetime of a narrator should overlap with the lifetime of the authority from whom he narrates. Second, it should be verifiable that narrators have met with their source persons. They should also expressly state that they obtained the narrative from these authorities. This is a stricter criterion than that set by Imam Muslim.
2. Imam Bukhari accepted the narratives from only those who, according to his knowledge, not only believed in Islam but practiced its teachings. Thus, he has not accepted narratives from the Murjites.
3. The particular arrangement and ordering of chapters. This expresses the profound knowledge of the author and his understanding of the religion. This has made the book a more useful guide in understanding of the religious disciplines.

Authenticity[link]

Ibn al-Salah said: "The first to author a Sahih was Bukhari, Abu ‘Abdillah Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel al-Ju’fee, followed by Aboo al-Husain Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Naisaabooree al-Qushairee, 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,” – others mentioned it with a different wording – he said this before the books of Bukhari and Muslim. The book of Bukhari is the more authentic of the two and more useful."^[3]

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani quoted Aboo Ja’far al-‘Uqailee as saying, "After Bukhari had written the Sahih, he read it to Ali ibn al-Madini, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Yahya ibn Ma'in as well as others. They considered it a good effort and testified to its authenticity with the exception of four hadith. Al-‘Uqailee then said that Bukhari was actually correct regarding those four hadith." Ibn Hajar then concluded, "And they are, in fact, authentic."^[10]

Ibn al-Salah said in his Muqaddimah: "It has been narrated to us that Bukhari has said, 'I have not included in the book al-Jami’ other than what is authentic and I did not include other authentic hadith for the sake of brevity.'"^[3] In addition, al-Dhahabi said, "Bukhari was heard saying, 'I have memorized one hundred thousand authentic hadith and two hundred thousand which are less than authentic.'”^[11]

Number of hadith[link]

Ibn al-Salah also said: "The number of hadith in his book, the Sahih, is 7,275 hadith, including hadith occurring repeatedly. It has been said that this number excluding repeated hadith is 4,000."^[3] This is referring to those hadith which are musnad,^[12] those from the Companions originating from the Prophet which are authentic.^[13]

Commentaries[link]

Several detailed commentaries on this collection have been written, such as:

1. Al-Kawkab al-Darari fi Sharh Al-Bukhari by al-Kirmani (died: 796H).
2. Fath al-Bari Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari by al-Hafith Ibn Hajar (died: 852H).
3. Umdah al Qari fi Sharh Sahih al Bukhari' written by Badr al-Din al-Ayni and published in Beirut by Dar Ihya’ al-turath al-`Arabi^[14]
4. Irshad al-Sari li Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari by al-Qastalani (died: 923H); one of the most well known of the explanations of Sahih Bukhari'^[15].
5. Al-Tanqih by al-Zarkashi.
6. Al-Tawshih by al-Suyuti (died: 811H)
7. Sharh Ibn Kathir (died: 774H)
8. Sharh ‘Ala’ al-Din Maghlatay (died: 792H)
9. Sharh Ibnu al-Mulaqqin (died: 804H)
10. Sharh al-Barmawi (died: 831H)
11. Sharh al-Tilmasani al-Maliki (died: 842H)
12. Sharh al-Bulqini (died: 995H)
13. Fath al-Bari by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (died: 795H)
14. Sharh Ibni Abi Hamzah al-Andalusi
15. Sharh Abi al-Baqa’ al-Ahmadi
16. Sharh al-Bakri
17. Sharh Ibnu Rashid
18. Hashiyat ul Bukhari By Tajus Shariah Mufti Muhammad Akhtar Raza Khan Qaadiri Al Azhari;
19. Sharh Ibn Battaal By Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Khalaf ibn 'Abd al-Malik (died: 449H); published in 10 volumes with an additional volume containing indexes;
20. Al-Mutawari 'Ala Abwab al-Bukhari by Nasir al-Din ibn al-Munayyir (died: 683H): An explanation of select chapter titles; published in one volume.
21. Fayd al-Bari by Anwar Shah al-Kashmiri

Translations[link]

Sahih al-Bukhari has been translated into English by the Salafi scholar Muhammad Muhsin Khan in 9 volumes. The text used for this work is Fath Al-Bari, published by the Egyptian Press of Mustafa Al-Babi Al-Halabi in 1959. It is published by Al Saadawi Publications and Dar-us-Salam and is included in the USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts.^[16]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

Arabic Wikisource has original text related to this article: Sahih al-Bukhari

• The Canonization of Al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon by Jonathan Brown, BRILL, 2007

External links[link]

• Hadith Bukhari - Alternative English Translation Without mistakes and omissions

Mohammad Ibrahim (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ ইব্রাহিম ; 1911–1989) was a physician from Bangladesh. He was the founder of the Diabetic Association in Dhaka (1956) and in Karachi and Lahore, West Pakistan (1964). He later established a diabetes health-care and research institute complex, named the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM) at Shahbag, Dhaka, in 1980 and shifted the out-patients centre of the Bangladesh Diabetic Association there. He was also the founder of Bangladesh Institute of Research and Training for Applied Nutrition (BIRTAN) and Rehabilitation and Vocational Training Centre in Jurain, Dhaka. Ibrahim also played instrumental role in drafting the first population control policy of the Government and setting up National Population Council. The Government of Bangladesh recognized his contribution to the national life by awarding him National Professor and the Independence Day Award, the highest civilian award of the country, in 1978.

References[link]

1. Rahman, Siddique Mahmudur (2003). "Ibrahim, Mohammad". In Islam, Sirajul. Banglapedia: National encyclopedia of Bangladesh. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. http://www.banglapedia.org/httpdocs/HT/I_0009.HTM. 

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Imam Shabir Ally^[1] is the president of the Islamic Information & Dawah Centre International in Toronto, Canada. He is a Muslim activist, preacher and speaker on Islam and Muslims.^{[citation needed]} He is also a debater engaging in regular debates in different parts of the world.^{[citation needed]}

He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, with a specialization in Biblical Literature, and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Quranic Exegesis.^{[citation needed]} He is now in his fourth year of PhD studies in Quranic Exegesis at the University of Toronto.^{[citation needed]} He currently teaches Arabic at the University of Toronto.

Debates / Lectures[link]

Ally is known for accepting literal interpretation of the Quran verses, but seeks to find their justification in similar expressions within the Christian Bible.^[2] To this end he has participated in a number of debates and lectures.^{[citation needed]} Some of the more notable debates include:^{[citation needed]}

• Shabir Ally vs. Sir Anthony Buzzard, 3rd Baronet
• Shabir Ally vs. John Gilchrist
• Shabir Ally vs. David Seccombe
• Shabir Ally vs. Bob Benjamin & Glen Schenkte
• Shabir Ally vs. Jay Smith
• Shabir Ally vs. Mike Licona
• Shabir Ally vs. James White
• Shabir Ally vs. William Lane Craig
• Shabir Ally vs. Dave Hunt
• Shabir Ally vs. Peter Atkins

Publications[link]

• Is Jesus God? The Bible Says No (Al-Attique Publications, Canada) ISBN 9960-9148-8-7
• What God Said About Eating Pork? (Al-Attique Publications, Canada) ISBN 9960-777-02-2
• Science in the Qur'an (Al-Attique Publications, Canada) ISBN 9960-9148-7-9
• 101 Clear Contradictions in the Bible (Al-Attique Publications, Canada) ISBN 1-894264-12-6
• Yahweh, Jehovah Or Allah (Al-Attique Publications, Canada) ISBN 894264185
• 101 Questions to Ask Visiting Jehovah's Witnesses (Al-Attique Publications, Canada) ISBN 1-894264-10-X
• Reply to Robert Morey's Source of Islam Theories (Al-Attique Publications, Canada) ISBN 9960-777-05-7

External links[link]

• Shabir Ally's Official Website

References[link]