870 CEmajor

Compilation of Sahih al-Bukhari

تصنيف صحيح البخاري

Map: Bukhara, Central Asia (39.77, 64.42)

Imam Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari completed his monumental hadith collection, Sahih al-Bukhari, after sixteen years of meticulous work. He selected approximately 7,275 hadith from over 600,000 narrations he had collected. It is considered the most authentic book after the Quran by Sunni scholars.

Sources

  • Siyar A'lam an-Nubala
  • Hady as-Sari