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Imam al-Bukhari
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari (194–256 AH / 810–870) compiled al-Jami' al-Sahih, the most relied-upon book of hadith after the Qur’an in Sunni teaching. He began hearing hadith as a child in Bukhara and spent decades on the road between Khurasan, Iraq, the Hijaz, and Egypt.
About the Shaykh
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari (194–256 AH / 810–870) compiled al-Jami' al-Sahih, the most relied-upon book of hadith after the Qur’an in Sunni teaching. He began hearing hadith as a child in Bukhara and spent decades on the road between Khurasan, Iraq, the Hijaz, and Egypt.
His Sahih is arranged by fiqh chapter, so it is both a collection and a school of inference. He also wrote Khalq af'al al-ibad and a creedal risalah that later Athari scholars cite against Jahmi ta’til.
He died near Samarqand after leaving Bukhara. His Sahih remains the first book opened in many Salafi hadith circles after the Qur’an.
References
- Al-Dhahabi, Siyar
- Ibn Hajar, Hady al-sari
Timeline
- Born in Bukhara.
- Taught in Basra and Baghdad; his Sahih was already in circulation among students.
- Died in Khartank. رحمه الله.
Legacy
Athari teaching treats his Sahih as the soundest hadith book and reads his creed as affirmation of Allah’s attributes upon the text, without the methods of kalam.
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