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Imam Al-Bukhari and The Science of

Hadith

Murodkhonov Mukhammad Student of Kokaldosh secondary special school under

Sodiq The Muslim Board of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
In Islamic sciences, all information about the faith is derived from two sources: the
Quran and the hadith, which are the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad,
ABSTRACT

peace be upon him. The Quran, which is the basis of all Islamic knowledge, is understood
to be the unaltered word of Allah as it was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him. The Prophet's example, peace be upon him, comes in second after the Quran.
We can talk about Imam Al-life Bukhari's and the hadith science in this post.

Keywords: Imam Al-Bukhari, science of Hadith, Fiqh, knowledge, books, Sahih

al-Bukhari.

But how can we be certain that the most important contribution to Islamic Since
sayings and deeds we attribute to Jesus are its compilation, Sahih al-Bukhari, which
true and unaltered given that he lived 1400 literally translates to "The Authentic Hadiths of
years ago? The collections of hadith may al-Bukhari," has been regarded as the most
appear unreliable and subject to corruption to authentic book of hadith in history. This
someone who is not versed with the study of collection took him 16 years to finish.
hadith. However, according to Imam Imam al-painstaking Bukhari's attention
Muhammad al-efforts Bukhari's in the ninth to detail when compiling the hadiths is what
century, the science of hadith has been makes Sahih al-Bukhari so exceptional.
shielded from these issues by employing a Compared to other hadith experts, he had far
methodical and exhaustive procedure of tighter criteria for approving a hadith as
verification for each and every averment made authentic. Before including a hadith in his
to the Prophet peace be upon. As a result, the compilation, Imam al-Bukhari had to ensure
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, left us that the chain of narrators was trustworthy
with some valuable teachings that we can still and authentic. For instance, the book's opening
apply today. hadith begins:
Sahih al-Bukhari. “We have heard from al-Humaydi
Although Imam al-Bukhari wrote Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr who said that he heard
several works on the subject, his compilation of from Sufyan, who said he heard from Yahya ibn
more than 7000 hadiths, known as al-Jaami al- Saeed al-Ansari who said he was informed by
Sahih al-Mukhtasar min Umur Rasool Allah wa Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi that he heard
sunanihi wa Ayyamihi, or "The Abridged Alqama ibn Waqqas al-Laythi say that he heard
Collection of Authentic Hadith with Connected Umar ibn al-Khattab say on the sermon pulpit
Chains regarding Matters Pertaining to the that he heard the Prophet Muhammad peace be
Prophet, His practices, and His Times," is his upon him say: ‘Actions are only by intentions…'”

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Imam al-Bukhari carefully examined Taraweeh prayer chapter in the Qur'an is
this chain of six narrators. He had to named "The Superiority of Extra Prayers at
thoroughly research the biographies of every Night in Ramadan" and contains six quotes
link in the chain before he could accept the from the Prophet, peace be upon him, that
hadith as authentic. In order to ensure that if highlight the significance of the Taraweeh
someone narrates from someone else, they prayer.
must both have been in the same location at Therefore, Sahih al-Bukhari is not only
the same time, have actually met, and have the most reliable collection of hadith ever
spoken hadith, he investigated where and made, but Imam al-Bukhari also had the
when the narrators lived. Imam al-compilation wisdom to compile it into a book of law that
Bukhari's is distinct because of his severe aids ordinary Muslims in living their lives as
requirements; other hadith scholars did not all closely as possible to that of the Prophet, peace
demand proof that two successive narrators be upon. Generations of hadith scholars would
personally interacted. be inspired by his colossal work, notably al-
To ensure that the narrators were pupil Bukhari's Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, who
reliable and wouldn't create or alter a hadith's would later compile Sahih Muslim, which is
wording, Imam al-Bukhari also looked into second only to Sahih al-Bukhari in terms of
their personal histories. A hadith was instantly authenticity.
removed and not included in his book if he
learned that someone in the chain had publicly Conclusion. The idea that there is no means to
sinned or was not regarded as trustworthy, authenticate the hadith and that they should
barring the existence of a stronger chain. not be used as a source of belief or law is one of
Imam al-Bukhari was the first to create the frequent criticisms leveled by non-Muslims
a methodical system for categorizing hadith against Islamic studies and the study of hadith.
using his stringent criteria for hadith approval. This argument is based on a very simplistic and
He classified each hadith as being either sahih inaccurate understanding of the methods used
(true), hasan (excellent), mutawatir (recurring to gather the hadith and the extraordinary
in many chains), ahad (lone), daeef (weak), or amount of work that scholars like al-Bukhari
mawdu (fabricated). Later, additional hadith put into confirming their veracity. Even 1400
experts used this classification scheme as the years after the Prophet Muhammad, peace be
benchmark for all hadiths. upon, we are now able to know what sayings
Imam al-Bukhari’s Fiqh. and deeds may actually be credited to him
The hadith collection of Imam al- because to the immense labor of al-Bukhari
Bukhari is a remarkable accomplishment and and other hadith experts.
an indispensable pillar of the field of hadith
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