Muhammad al-Bukhari

Imam Al-Bukhari
البخاري
Al-Bukhari's mausoleum
Title	Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith
Personal
Born	21 July 810 13 Shawwal 194 AH Bukhara, Abbasid Caliphate
Died	1 September 870(870-09-01) (aged 60) 1 Shawwal 256 AH Khartank, Samarkand, Abbasid Caliphate
Resting place	Imam Bukhari Mosque near Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic Golden Age (Abbasid era)
Region	Abbasid Caliphate
Denomination	Sunni
School	Shafi'i
Creed	See School of Law and Theology
Main interest(s)	Hadith, Aqidah
Notable work(s)	Sahih al-Bukhari al-Adab al-Mufrad
Occupation	Muhaddith
Muslim leader
Influenced by Al-Shafi'i Ahmad ibn Hanbal Abu Hanifa Ishaq ibn Rahwayh[1] Yahya ibn Ma'in Ali ibn al-Madini Naim ibn Hammad Ibn Abi Shaybah Ibn Kullab
Influenced Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Ibn Khuzayma Al-Nasa'i Al-Tirmidhi Ibn Abi al-Dunya Ibn Abi Asim

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل بن إبرهيم الجعفي البخاري; 21 July 810 – 1 September 870) was a 9th-century Muslim muhaddith who is widely regarded as the most important hadith scholar in the history of Sunni Islam. Al-Bukhari's extant works include the hadith collection Sahih al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, and al-Adab al-Mufrad.

Born in Bukhara in present-day Uzbekistan, Al-Bukhari began learning hadith at a young age. He travelled across the Abbasid Caliphate and learned under several influential contemporary scholars. Bukhari memorized thousands of hadith narrations, compiling the Sahih al-Bukhari in 846. He spent the rest of his life teaching the hadith he had collected. Towards the end of his life, Bukhari faced claims the Quran was created, and was exiled from Nishapur. Subsequently, he moved to Khartank, near Samarkand.

Sahih al-Bukhari is revered as the most important hadith collection in Sunni Islam. Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, the hadith collection of Al-Bukhari's student Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, are together known as the Sahihayn (Arabic: صحيحين, romanized: Saḥiḥayn) and are regarded by Sunnis as the most authentic books after the Quran. It is part of the Kutub al-Sittah, the six most highly regarded collections of hadith in Sunni Islam.