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مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ البُخَارِيّ
Imam al-Bukhari
The scholar from Bukhara who compiled the Sahih, the most rigorously sifted book of hadith.
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The meaning
What Imam al-Bukhari means in Islam
Born in 194, he lost his sight as a child and had it restored, and began memorising hadith before he was ten. He travelled for years across the Muslim world collecting reports, and required proof that a narrator had actually met the person he quoted, a stricter condition than most. Beyond the Sahih he wrote al-Adab al-Mufrad on manners and at-Tarikh al-Kabir on narrators. He died in exile near Samarqand in 256, after a dispute over a theological question.
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- Sahih al-BukhariThe collection of Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, held to be the soundest book after the Qur'an.صَحِيحُ البُخَارِيّ
- Imam MuslimThe compiler of the second Sahih, a student and close friend of al-Bukhari.مُسْلِمُ بْنُ الحَجَّاج
- Ilm al-RijalThe biographical science of the narrators: who they were, whom they met, and how reliable each was.عِلْمُ الرِّجَال
- IsnadThe chain of narrators who carried a hadith, listed name by name back to its source.الإِسْنَاد
- Imam Ahmad ibn HanbalThe imam of hadith who was flogged rather than say the Qur'an was created.أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَل
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