Muhammad al-Bukhari

Persian Islamic scholar (810-870)

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Lived 810–870, aged 60
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    810–870
    Aged 60
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Updated 2026-08-31

He assembled the collection that Sunni Muslims regard as the most authentic record of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds outside the Quran itself. Fifteen centuries of Islamic scholarship rest on the thousands of hadith narrations he vetted, memorized, and compiled into what became known as Sahih al-Bukhari.

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Born in Bukhara in 810, al-Bukhari began studying hadith as a child and spent his early years traveling across the Abbasid Caliphate, learning from the era's most influential scholars. He committed thousands of narrations to memory, then spent years sifting them for authenticity before completing Sahih al-Bukhari in 846. The work, compiled alongside two other texts — al-Tarikh al-Kabir and al-Adab al-Mufrad — established a standard that his student Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj would follow in his own collection; together the two became known as the Sahihayn, the twin pillars of Sunni hadith literature…

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