– 1 Shawwal 256 AH) / (July 20, 810 AD – September 1, 870 AD) He is one of the great memorizers (1) of the jurists, one of the most important scholars of hadith, the sciences of men, criticism, authentication, and defects among the people of the Sunnah and the community. He has many books, the most prominent of which is the book Al-Jami` Al-Sahih, known as Sahih Al-Bukhari, which is considered the most authentic of the six authentic books, and which the scholars of the Sunnah and the community agreed upon as the most authentic book after the Holy Qur’an. He spent sixteen years collecting and classifying it. He grew up an orphan and sought knowledge since his childhood. He traveled a long journey throughout the Islamic world to meet scholars and seek hadith, and he heard from nearly a thousand sheikhs, and collected about six hundred thousand hadiths. He desired
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Imam Bukhari
Al-Bukhari took sixteen years to edit it and selected its hadiths from six hundred thousand hadiths that he collected.
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