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Sahih Al-Bukhari [9 Vols]
The Translation Of The Meanings Of Sahih Al-Bukhari, Arabic - English, Complete 9 Volume Set.
Generally regarded as the single most authentic collection of Hadiths, Sahih Al-Bukhari covers almost all aspects of life in providing proper guidance from the messenger of Allah. This 9-Volume Bukhari is the work of over 16 years by Imam Bukhari who before writing any Hadith in this book performed two Rakat prayer of guidance from Allah and when he was sure of the Hadith's authenticity, he wrote it in the book
This is the unabridged version consisting of 7563 ahadith (about 4000 pages) which are presented neatly in smaller books format and printed on fine paper. Each book (subtopics in each volume categorized by very broad topics such as the Book of As-Salat) contains many chapters which represent one logical unit of Hadith. Each book contains anywhere from one to 150 chapters with each chapter containing several Hadith. This book will be a great addition to your library while giving you a true perspective on the traditions of the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him).
Generally regarded as the single most authentic collection of Hadiths, Sahih Al-Bukhari covers almost all aspects of life in providing proper guidance from the messenger of Allah. This 9-Volume Bukhari is the work of over 16 years by Imam Bukhari who before writing any Hadith in this book performed two Rakat prayer of guidance from Allah and when he was sure of the Hadith's authenticity, he wrote it in the book
This is the unabridged version consisting of 7563 ahadith (about 4000 pages) which are presented neatly in smaller books format and printed on fine paper. Each book (subtopics in each volume categorized by very broad topics such as the Book of As-Salat) contains many chapters which represent one logical unit of Hadith. Each book contains anywhere from one to 150 chapters with each chapter containing several Hadith. This book will be a great addition to your library while giving you a true perspective on the traditions of the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him).
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Published January 1, 1997
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محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري
146 books247 followersMuhammad هbn Ismaa'eel ibn Ibraaheem ibn al-Mugheerah ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhaaree
popularly known as al-Bukhaaree or Imaam al-Bukhaaree, was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Greater Khorasan. He is the author of the collection of hadeeths which Muslims regard as the most authentic of all Hadeeth compilations, Al-Jaami'-us-Saheeh . Most Sunni scholars consider it second only to the Qur’an in terms of authenticity. The Arabic word saheeh translates as authentic or correct.
Imaam al-Bukhaaree was born in 810 A.D. / 196 A.H. in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. His father, Ismail Ibn Ibrahim, was a known hadith scholar who died while he was still an infant and he was hence raised by his mother. Imam Bukhari began studying hadith, memorising works of Abdullah ibn al-Mubaarak while still a child.
At age of sixteen, Imam Bukhari made the pilgrimage to Mecca, beginning a series of travels in order to increase his knowledge of hadith. He went through all the important centres of Islamic learning of his time, talked to scholars and exchanged information on hadith. It is said that he heard from over 1,000 men, and learned over 600,000 traditions.
After sixteen years’ absence he returned to Bukhara, and drew up his al-Jami’ as-Sahih, a collection of 7,275 tested traditions, arranged in chapters so as to afford bases for a complete system of jurisprudence. Imam Bukhari finished his work around 846 A.D., and spent the last twenty-four years of his life visiting other cities and scholars, teaching the hadith he had collected. In every city that he visited, thousands of people would gather in the main mosque to listen to him recite traditions. Imam Bukhari died in a village near
Samarkand in the year 870/256.
The Sahih Al-Bukhari book covers almost all aspects of life in providing proper guidance of Islam such as the method of performing prayers and other actions of worship directly from Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Hadiths are a practical example of the implementation of Quranic guidance and are essential supplements to the teachings of the Quran. Neither the Quran nor the Sunnah can be understood correctly without the other. They have been meticulously compiled by individuals with exceptional memory skills and analytical expertise like Imam Bukhari, who travelled tirelessly to collect thousands of narrations and distinguish the true words of prophetic wisdom. Muslims during the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
and generations that followed and generations to come are blessed to have these pearls of wisdom to guide us in a righteous, Islamic way of life leading to Al-Firdaus.
popularly known as al-Bukhaaree or Imaam al-Bukhaaree, was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Greater Khorasan. He is the author of the collection of hadeeths which Muslims regard as the most authentic of all Hadeeth compilations, Al-Jaami'-us-Saheeh . Most Sunni scholars consider it second only to the Qur’an in terms of authenticity. The Arabic word saheeh translates as authentic or correct.
Imaam al-Bukhaaree was born in 810 A.D. / 196 A.H. in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. His father, Ismail Ibn Ibrahim, was a known hadith scholar who died while he was still an infant and he was hence raised by his mother. Imam Bukhari began studying hadith, memorising works of Abdullah ibn al-Mubaarak while still a child.
At age of sixteen, Imam Bukhari made the pilgrimage to Mecca, beginning a series of travels in order to increase his knowledge of hadith. He went through all the important centres of Islamic learning of his time, talked to scholars and exchanged information on hadith. It is said that he heard from over 1,000 men, and learned over 600,000 traditions.
After sixteen years’ absence he returned to Bukhara, and drew up his al-Jami’ as-Sahih, a collection of 7,275 tested traditions, arranged in chapters so as to afford bases for a complete system of jurisprudence. Imam Bukhari finished his work around 846 A.D., and spent the last twenty-four years of his life visiting other cities and scholars, teaching the hadith he had collected. In every city that he visited, thousands of people would gather in the main mosque to listen to him recite traditions. Imam Bukhari died in a village near
Samarkand in the year 870/256.
The Sahih Al-Bukhari book covers almost all aspects of life in providing proper guidance of Islam such as the method of performing prayers and other actions of worship directly from Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Hadiths are a practical example of the implementation of Quranic guidance and are essential supplements to the teachings of the Quran. Neither the Quran nor the Sunnah can be understood correctly without the other. They have been meticulously compiled by individuals with exceptional memory skills and analytical expertise like Imam Bukhari, who travelled tirelessly to collect thousands of narrations and distinguish the true words of prophetic wisdom. Muslims during the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
and generations that followed and generations to come are blessed to have these pearls of wisdom to guide us in a righteous, Islamic way of life leading to Al-Firdaus.
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January 25, 2008"I leave with you two things which you will never be astray by holding them.. the Book of Allah, and the Life Tradition of the Messenger of Allah.."
July 28, 2011
you cant understand Islam without Sahih Bukhari
May 12, 2011
Bukhari wrote at a time when the Shi'ites and Sunnis joined in rejecting the Abbasid leadership and abandoned the Gospel and the Torah (see The Great Leap-Fraud - Social Economics of Religious Terrorism for details). It must be read in that light. As had the Christians before them, the Muslims now rejected everything that the Jews and Christians had done previously. For everything they did, an alternative ritual and behavior had to be found in order to make sure that the Muslims could build their own distinct identity—their Jewish past was buried.
From the Sunni point of view, Bukhari's traditions would be the most authentic of the thousands of sayings fathered upon Muhammad. For the modern reader, they are an impenetrable and repetitive maze of useless gibberish containing only the occasional hint of the intention and meaning of the sayings. Yet, when one views the writings as being under the impression of the ninth century, the Bukhari script turns into an invaluable fountain of information.
The Islamic scholar Malik ibn Anas had provided the foundation for the writings of Bukhari, who completed his collection of Mohammad’s traditions between the year 864 and 870. He seems to have taken the extensive Shi’ite collections and pretended to confirm their authenticity. This must have been a difficult task, if not impossible. Bukhari attempted to ask great grandsons of direct witnesses about what may have happened two hundred years earlier. To be sure, we are not talking about historical events that changed the world, but nitty-gritty details very close to the daily struggle of ordinary people. Thus, the value of those traditions in their historicity is limited. Because no federal or provincial code of law had been established in either Damascus or Baghdad and no edicts had been issued by the caliphs, it seems that local authorities were referred to for case-by-case decisions within a moral framework, which must have been any combination of the Torah, the Zabur, the Gospel, and the Koran.
As for the gibberish, the text regulates everything from how to pray to how to spit.
One of the interesting aspects in the study of Bukhari is his technique of suggestion. He leaves out details, emphasizes arguments differently, and buries critical passages in repetitious sayings and lengthy excurses to nowhere. He frequently withholds information about time and places, not disclosing whether the recounted occurred in a dream or reality, keeping important details close to the chest, misplacing quote marks, putting sayings in deliberate chronological disorder, and breaking sayings into pieces that make little sense in their fragments. It makes for such an extraordinarily hard read that it could not amount to a commoner’s bedtime lecture.
Bukhari’s school of thought was that the Shi’ite recordings were inventions of the time and that Bukhari’s uniquely Ghassanid Sunni collection was the only correct one. The parts that stood the test of “authenticity” more than two hundred years after Muhammad’s death were, conveniently, those that fit Bukhari’s ideals. They were authenticated because he wanted them authenticated. The text is exhaustive and overwhelming—overwhelmingly ridiculous, that is.
Unfortunately, for the student of Sunni Islam, no path can evade Bukhari.
A.J. Deus, author of The Great Leap-Fraud - Social Economics of Religious Terrorism
From the Sunni point of view, Bukhari's traditions would be the most authentic of the thousands of sayings fathered upon Muhammad. For the modern reader, they are an impenetrable and repetitive maze of useless gibberish containing only the occasional hint of the intention and meaning of the sayings. Yet, when one views the writings as being under the impression of the ninth century, the Bukhari script turns into an invaluable fountain of information.
The Islamic scholar Malik ibn Anas had provided the foundation for the writings of Bukhari, who completed his collection of Mohammad’s traditions between the year 864 and 870. He seems to have taken the extensive Shi’ite collections and pretended to confirm their authenticity. This must have been a difficult task, if not impossible. Bukhari attempted to ask great grandsons of direct witnesses about what may have happened two hundred years earlier. To be sure, we are not talking about historical events that changed the world, but nitty-gritty details very close to the daily struggle of ordinary people. Thus, the value of those traditions in their historicity is limited. Because no federal or provincial code of law had been established in either Damascus or Baghdad and no edicts had been issued by the caliphs, it seems that local authorities were referred to for case-by-case decisions within a moral framework, which must have been any combination of the Torah, the Zabur, the Gospel, and the Koran.
As for the gibberish, the text regulates everything from how to pray to how to spit.
One of the interesting aspects in the study of Bukhari is his technique of suggestion. He leaves out details, emphasizes arguments differently, and buries critical passages in repetitious sayings and lengthy excurses to nowhere. He frequently withholds information about time and places, not disclosing whether the recounted occurred in a dream or reality, keeping important details close to the chest, misplacing quote marks, putting sayings in deliberate chronological disorder, and breaking sayings into pieces that make little sense in their fragments. It makes for such an extraordinarily hard read that it could not amount to a commoner’s bedtime lecture.
Bukhari’s school of thought was that the Shi’ite recordings were inventions of the time and that Bukhari’s uniquely Ghassanid Sunni collection was the only correct one. The parts that stood the test of “authenticity” more than two hundred years after Muhammad’s death were, conveniently, those that fit Bukhari’s ideals. They were authenticated because he wanted them authenticated. The text is exhaustive and overwhelming—overwhelmingly ridiculous, that is.
Unfortunately, for the student of Sunni Islam, no path can evade Bukhari.
A.J. Deus, author of The Great Leap-Fraud - Social Economics of Religious Terrorism
February 20, 2017
The choice to repeat hadiths seems to have been driven by the need to categorise the Hadith but it would have been more efficiently done by offering a category index and by only repeating a Hadith, where there was a significant difference of detail. The numbering system isn't very helpful, though in more recent versions a unique number is given to each Hadith making searching easier. (That is the reason for the three stars).
The question of the veracity of the Hadith is an issue for believing Muslims rather than bemused reviewers. However, I couldn't help but notice that the fasting Muhammad was fat according to one Hadith. He was also unusually paranoid about keyhole spies, threatening to gouge their eyes out with arrowheads! It begs the question: what has Al Amin (the honest one) got to hide?
The Hadith couldn't decide whether Muhammad was a dwarf or of average height. Surely, both claims can't be true (sahih)?
Muhammad's misogyny was on full display: women got stoned for adultery, whereas he could rape his female slaves. (Is it only adultery if the other person is consenting?)
His racism was also evident, especially towards Ethiopians: not only was there a prohibition of killing animals with implements that Ethiopians used, but Ethiopian slaves are referred to as "raisin heads"!
Mohammad purported to be starting a non-pagan religion, but the evidence of the Hadith contradicts that. It is clear that he took a pagan god "Al Lah" and discontinued the other pagan gods of "Al Lat" etc. All of the key prayers are an assertion of that. Interestingly, by including himself repeatedly as Allah's apostle and slave, he has raised himself to that of Allah's helper, indeed he even gives himself the Divine prerogative of judgement on the Day of the Resurrection. (Muslims have kept quiet on that one!) But apart from placing himself on the altar of worship with Allah, the most obvious signs of this being a pagan religion with a monotheism makeover is the high prevalence of superstitious practices. You can't eat two dates in company; Allah is one and likes odd numbers! You must spit three times but on your left, never on your right. You mustn't go to the toilet facing or with ones back to the Kaba. There were hundreds of these superstitions. If you think of throwing salt over your shoulder, that is pretty much the sort of thing required of Muhammad's followers under pain of going to the hell fire: for example, soiling yourself with urine is punishable with hell fire.
His superstition was downright dangerous too as he offered medical advice based on these silly notions, for example, drinking camel urine was suggested as a cure for a host of illnesses (!) and those who realised it was fake suffered the most horrific murder as reported many times: their eyes branded,
their limbs cut off and left to die of thirst in the desert sun!
One of the Hadith's virtues is that it told mostly the unpolished truth about the founder: from his marriage to a 6 year old to his approval of sex slaves. The Hadith is a long hard read but it opens your eyes to the truth of a fanatical tyrant.
The question of the veracity of the Hadith is an issue for believing Muslims rather than bemused reviewers. However, I couldn't help but notice that the fasting Muhammad was fat according to one Hadith. He was also unusually paranoid about keyhole spies, threatening to gouge their eyes out with arrowheads! It begs the question: what has Al Amin (the honest one) got to hide?
The Hadith couldn't decide whether Muhammad was a dwarf or of average height. Surely, both claims can't be true (sahih)?
Muhammad's misogyny was on full display: women got stoned for adultery, whereas he could rape his female slaves. (Is it only adultery if the other person is consenting?)
His racism was also evident, especially towards Ethiopians: not only was there a prohibition of killing animals with implements that Ethiopians used, but Ethiopian slaves are referred to as "raisin heads"!
Mohammad purported to be starting a non-pagan religion, but the evidence of the Hadith contradicts that. It is clear that he took a pagan god "Al Lah" and discontinued the other pagan gods of "Al Lat" etc. All of the key prayers are an assertion of that. Interestingly, by including himself repeatedly as Allah's apostle and slave, he has raised himself to that of Allah's helper, indeed he even gives himself the Divine prerogative of judgement on the Day of the Resurrection. (Muslims have kept quiet on that one!) But apart from placing himself on the altar of worship with Allah, the most obvious signs of this being a pagan religion with a monotheism makeover is the high prevalence of superstitious practices. You can't eat two dates in company; Allah is one and likes odd numbers! You must spit three times but on your left, never on your right. You mustn't go to the toilet facing or with ones back to the Kaba. There were hundreds of these superstitions. If you think of throwing salt over your shoulder, that is pretty much the sort of thing required of Muhammad's followers under pain of going to the hell fire: for example, soiling yourself with urine is punishable with hell fire.
His superstition was downright dangerous too as he offered medical advice based on these silly notions, for example, drinking camel urine was suggested as a cure for a host of illnesses (!) and those who realised it was fake suffered the most horrific murder as reported many times: their eyes branded,
their limbs cut off and left to die of thirst in the desert sun!
One of the Hadith's virtues is that it told mostly the unpolished truth about the founder: from his marriage to a 6 year old to his approval of sex slaves. The Hadith is a long hard read but it opens your eyes to the truth of a fanatical tyrant.
June 27, 2025
I’m on the fourth one rn it’s so interesting to kinda unravel islams mindset and really see how it’s the most peaceful people loving religion out of all the abrahamitic religions out there.
August 3, 2009
Finally, I have in my possession the complete 9 volumes of the sayings and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) collected by Imam Al Bukhari. Regarded as the second most important book in Islam after the Quran. Even so it is incomplete. It was virtually impossible to record everything the Prophet said and did in his lifetime but what we have in Bukhari's tome is nonetheless worth its weight in gold.
May 15, 2007
my other lifeline
September 9, 2007
The whole 9 volumes of al-Bukhari's collection of hadith, held to be the most authoritative by Sunni Muslims.
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September 23, 2010The English Translation of Sahih Al Bukhari With the Arabic Text (9 volume set) by Muhammad Ibn Ismail Bukhari (1996)
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August 11, 2011Islamic nice book
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