Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī
Abū ʿAbd Allāh · al-Bukhārī
Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī was a 9th-century Muslim muhaddith and compiler of Sahih al-Bukhari, one of the most authentic hadith collections in Sunni Islam. Born in Bukhara, he travelled extensively to learn and teach hadith.
Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī was born in 810 CE in Bukhara, present-day Uzbekistan, into a Persian family of hadith scholars. His father, Ismail ibn Ibrahim, was a respected hadith scholar who died during Al-Bukhari's infancy. Al-Bukhari began studying hadith at a young age and travelled widely across the Abbasid Caliphate, learning from prominent scholars such as Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Ali ibn al-Madini. He memorised over 600,000 hadith narrations and compiled the Sahih al-Bukhari in 846 CE, which became one of the most authoritative hadith collections in Sunni Islam. Later in life, he faced opposition and was exiled from Nishapur, eventually settling near Samarkand where he died in 870 CE. His tomb is located in the Imam Bukhari Mausoleum in Uzbekistan.
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He is one of the most important figures in hadith scholarship, authoring the most authentic hadith collection in Sunni Islam.