The books really only serve to group ahadeeth together, but the volumes impose the numbering. The ahadeeth are numbered consecutively per volume. Sahih Bukhari is divided into nine volumes, each of which has several books. His criteria for acceptance into the collection were amongst the most stringent of all the scholars of ahadeeth. He spent sixteen years compiling it, and ended up with 2,602 hadeeth (9,082 with repetition). His collection of hadeeth is considered second to.
Bukhari (full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin al-Mughira al-Jafai) was born in 194 A.H. His collection of hadeeth is considered second to none. Bukharis collection is recognized by the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to be one of the most authentic collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh). Bukhari's collection is recognized by the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to be one of the most authentic collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet(pbuh).īukhari (full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin al-Mughira al-Ja'fai) was born in 194 A.H. Each report in his collection was checked for compatibility with the Qur'an, and the veracity of the chain of reporters had to be painstakingly established. Imam Bukhari lived a couple of centuries after the Prophet's (saw) death and worked extremely hard to collect his ahadeeth. The reports of the Prophet's (saw) sayings and deeds are called ahadeeth.
Sahih Bukhari is a collection of sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), also known as the Sunnah. We are pleased to be able to provide the English Translation of Sahih Bukhari.