OverviewA scholar who carefully checked accounts of Muhammad’s words and actions before collecting them.CategoryScholarPeriodc. 810 – 870 CE
Growing upHe came from Bukhara, in what is now Uzbekistan.Source: TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam — Imam al-Bukhari
LearningHe travelled to meet teachers and checked who had passed each account from one person to the next. He examined whether those people were trustworthy before including a report.Source: TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam — Imam al-Bukhari
His workHis collection Sahih al-Bukhari is widely studied by Sunni Muslims.Source: TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam — Imam al-Bukhari
How the collection is readSahih al-Bukhari has a particularly important place in Sunni hadith study. That standing belongs to a scholarly tradition; different Muslim schools do not all use the same hadith collections or methods of assessment.Source: TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam — Imam al-Bukhari
SourcesOriginal summaries of the cited sources. Qur’anic accounts, later traditions and historical estimates are distinguished; brief profiles do not settle scholarly disagreements.TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam — Imam al-Bukhari
