1)Insulting Muslim scholars spread widely in recent times, with the aim of propegating a false image of them in the youth's mind, so they can demolish the foundation of Islam Imam Al-Bukhari is one of these ! But before U attack him, let me show U how small y'r in front of him
2)Al-Bukhari, the boy whom Allah restored his eyesight to become “the prince of hadith" Many people never knew al-bukhari was blind in his early childhood until His mother saw in a dream Abrahamﷺ & said to her: "Allah has restored eyesight to your son because of yr prayers"
3)Ibn Katheer said in al-bidayah wa nihayah that “Muhammad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin al-Mughira bin Bardazbeh, al-Bukhari was born the year 194H his father died when he was young, he grew up in his mother’s care & Allah Allowed him through his guidance to memorize the hadith .
4)....he read the famous books of hadith before he was sixteen years old, until it was said that he had memorized {seventy thousand hadith narrations} while he was still a young boy due to the intense memory that he was known of, which put him beyond all his Classmates .
5)Al-Dhahabi, said : “Allah's predestination was that the father of Al-Bukhari would die while he was still a small child, & he would grow up an orphan in his mother’s care. This righteous woman did not cease her prayers with her Lord, she wooed him day and night, and called him
6)..hoping that he'd respond to her & cure her son, Allah responded to her cries and sent Abrahamﷺ with good news in her dream, saying to her: (Allah has returned to your son his sight bcz of your prayers) & thus bukhari started his journey with a miracle & continued likewise
7)Al-Khatib said in “History of Baghdad”: “he was 16 yrs when he memorized the books of Ibn al-Mubarak & Wakee' & other books, he compiled thousands of hadiths at a young age, & Bukhara at that time was a center of knowledge that was filled with schools of hadith & jurisprudence
8)ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani, said in “Fath Al-Bari”: “ the Two Holy Mosques, were the beginning of Al-Bukhari’s journey of seeking knowledge, he stayed in them for six years, learning from sheyukh & scholars. After that he started, traveling between the cities of the Islamic world...
9)He did not leave a single city known of knowledge exept that he traveled to it, sitting with major scholars and learning from the imams and collecting the hadith, and taking upon himself the hardship of traveling, and sometimes returning to the same city multiple times.
10)among the Islamic metropolises from which he collected & took from its shuyukh other than Makkah and Madinah, there was : -Baghdad -Wasit -Basra -Kufa -Damascus -Qaysariyah -Ashkelon -Khorasan Balkh -Nishapur -Meru -Herat -Egypt and others »
11)Regarding his journeys in the pursuit of knowledge, Al-Bukhari says: “I entered the sham (Palestine-syria-lebenone) & Egypt and the peninsula twice, and to Basra four times, and stayed in the Hijaz for six years, and I do not count how many times I went into Kufa and Baghdad”
12) -his teachers: Ibn Hajar said : " among the well-known sheikhs of Imam al-Bukhari whom he narrated from: -the great imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, -Yahya bin Ma’in -Ishaq bin Rahwayh -Ali bin Al-Madini -Qutaybah bin Saeed -Abu Bakr bin Abi Shaybah -Abu Atim al-Razi, and others"
13)the people that bukhari took knowlodge from reached a huge number Muhammad ibn Abi Hatim narrated from him that he said: "I wrote on the authority of one thousand and eighty person, there was none among them exept that he is a man of hadith" “Siyar Alam al-Nubala '(12/395)
14)ibn hajar adds: Al-Bukhari had a special method throughout his life, especially in the science and recording of hadith. For 16 yrs he collected the sahih diligently, in infinite accuracy, & patience in researching, and investigating the correctness. In an unmatched style
15)these qualifications were rare to be found in any researcher before or after him, but even after all this (Precaution) he did not record the hadith until after he washes and does (wudu') and performes prayer, and supplicates to Allah to guide him in his work.
16)Ibn Hajar pointed out that « from the words of Al-Bukhari, may God have mercy on him: (I did not sit down to write the hadith until I knew the correct one from the weak, and looked at the general opinion books, and until I entered Basra five times or so...
17)...and I did not leave an authantic hadith in Basra except that i wrote it" He was distinguished by his power of memorization, the people that knew him mentioned he used to look at the page once, & he'd memorize it from one look, and there are many reports about it.
18) -the motivation behind writing (sahih Bukhari) “Al-Jami al-Sahih al-Musnad from the hadith of the Messenger of Allah and his Sunnah and days,” is the most famous of al-Bukhari’s books, and is known as “al-Jami al-Sahih” or “Sahih al-Bukhari”...
19)Imam al-bukhari said about the sahih : "And I did not include any hadith into it (i.e the sahih) except after I prayed Istikharah from Allah almighty (i.e seaking guidance from Allah to make the right decision) and I prayed two rak'ahs, and was certain of its validity. ”
20)Al-Bukhari mentions the reason that made him write this work, saying: “I was with Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh, he said to us (his students): you should compile a short book of the authentic Sunnah of the Messenger of Allahﷺ, and this fell into my heart, so i went to compile the Sahih"
21)he chose 7275 hadith from 600000 Bcz he was careful in accepting any narration & he set special conditions for its narrator, who has to be a contemporary with whomever he narrates from & must've heard from him directly along with: trust, discipline, mastery, knowledge, & piety
22)bukhari offered his book to be reviewed by his teachers and shuyukh and some of the greatest scholars of hadith, such as: Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini, and Yahya bin Mu’in. And They Admired the work, and testified to the authanticity of the ahadith in it
23)Then the ummah after the major scholars accepted sahih al-bukhari as a compiled book of the authantic sunnah of the prophetﷺ and have recognized it to be the most correct book after the Book of Allah Almighty ». May Allah reward our great Imam the highest rank of Jannah Amen
