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Sahih al-Bukhari
First hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sahih al-Bukhari (Arabic: صحيح البخاري, romanized: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī) is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar al-Bukhari (d. 870) in the musannaf format, the work is valued by Muslims, alongside Sahih Muslim, as the most authentic after the Qur'an.
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Author | Al-Bukhari |
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Language | Arabic |
Genre | Hadith collection |
ISBN | 978-1-56744-519-0 |
OCLC | 47899632 |
Original text | Sahih al-Bukhari at Arabic Wikisource |
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During the reign of Abbasid caliph al-Wathiq (r. 842–847), al-Bukhari organized the book mostly in the Hijaz at the Sacred Mosque of Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque of Medina and completed the work in Bukhara. The work was examined by his teachers Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini, Yahya ibn Ma'in and others.