Sahih Bukhari is
a collection of sayings and deeds of Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh), also known as the
sunnah. The reports of the
Prophet’s sayings and deeds are called
ahadith. Bukhari lived a couple of
centuries after the Prophet’s death and worked
extremely hard to collect his ahadith. Each
report in his collection was checked for
compatibility with the Qur’an, and the veracity
of the chain of reporters had to be
painstakingly established. Bukhari’s collection
is recognized by the overwhelming majority of
the Muslim world to be one of the most authentic
collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH).
