Sahih al-Bukhari
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June 15, 2026“Whenever a person came to the Prophet (ﷺ) with his alms, the Prophet (ﷺ) would say, “O Allah! Send your Blessings upon so and so.” My father went to the Prophet (ﷺ) with his alms and the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “O Allah! Send your blessings upon the offspring of Abu Aufa.””
— Narrated by Abdullah bin · Sahih al-Bukhari 1445
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About This Collection
The most authentic collection of hadith, universally accepted by Sunni scholars. Contains rigorously verified narrations organized by topic.
About the Compiler
Abu Abdillah Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mughirah al-Bukhari
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari was born in Bukhara and began studying hadith at a young age, memorizing thousands of narrations before his teenage years. At 16, he performed Hajj and stayed in the Hijaz to pursue knowledge, later traveling extensively across the Islamic world to collect and verify hadith from over 1,000 scholars. He is widely regarded as the foremost authority in hadith sciences, renowned for his extraordinary memory, piety, and meticulous methodology. He reportedly performed two units of prayer before recording each hadith in his Sahih, and passed away near Samarkand after a life devoted entirely to the preservation of prophetic traditions.
Scholarly View
Sahih al-Bukhari is considered the most authentic book after the Quran by the consensus of Sunni scholars, and it ranks first among the Kutub al-Sittah. Together with Sahih Muslim, it forms the Sahihayn (Two Sahihs), and leading imams such as al-Nawawi, Ibn Salah, and Ibn Hajar have affirmed its unparalleled status in hadith literature.
Methodology & Grading
Al-Bukhari traveled to collect approximately 600,000 hadith and selected only those with complete, unbroken chains of trustworthy narrators who had personally met one another, possessing impeccable character and reliable memory. He organized his collection thematically by fiqh topics, with chapter headings that reflect deep jurisprudential insights, and had his work reviewed by peers including Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
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Disputed Narrations
A small number of narrations in this collection have been discussed by later scholars. These critiques almost always concern weakness in the chain (isnad) or specific wording (matn) of a particular narration route -- not the reliability of the original Companion narrator or the underlying tradition itself. The scholarly consensus (ijma') remains that every fully-chained hadith in this collection is sahih (authentic).
The table below catalogs 18 such discussions. It mixes two referencing systems. Rows labeled Tatabbu' NN come from Kitab al-Ilzamat wa al-Tatabbu', a 10th-century catalog of technical critiques compiled by the hadith scholar al-Daraqutni (d. 385 AH / 995 CE). Tatabbu' means "the follow-up," and the number refers to that catalog's entry -- not a hadith number on this site. Rows labeled with a hadith number (e.g., Bukhari 1050) are modern critiques by Shaykh al-Albani (d. 1420 AH / 1999 CE), targeting specific wordings within hadith you can read on this site. Click any row to expand the scholarly discussion.
What is Tatabbu', and who were al-Daraqutni and al-Albani?
Tatabbu' is the short name for Kitab al-Ilzamat wa al-Tatabbu', a 10th-century work by the hadith scholar al-Daraqutni (d. 385 AH / 995 CE). The Arabic word tatabbu' means "the pursuit" or "the follow-up" -- so the book is literally al-Daraqutni's follow-up review of the two Sahih collections. In it, he goes through specific narrations in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim and flags places where a single chain (isnad) or a single wording (matn) appears, to him, to have a technical flaw: a transmitter who never met his teacher, an extra word inserted by one student, a clause that should be quoted as a Companion's statement rather than as the Prophet's words, and so on.
The crucial point -- emphasized by both the classical commentators and modern scholarship (see Brown 2004, Journal of Islamic Studies 15:1) -- is that al-Daraqutni never claimed the Prophet did not say these things. His critiques target individual narration routes, not the underlying traditions. In almost every case, the same tradition is preserved through other sound chains in al-Bukhari, Muslim, or elsewhere. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and al-Nawawi systematically answered each of his criticisms.
Al-Albani (d. 1420 AH / 1999 CE) is the second voice in the table. He was a 20th-century scholar who, in works such as al-Silsila al-Da'ifa and Irwa' al-Ghalil, weakened a small number of specific hadith -- roughly ten in Bukhari and seven in Muslim -- usually targeting a single word or phrase rather than an entire tradition. He himself acknowledged he had not systematically reviewed the Sahihayn.
In the table, a label like Tatabbu' 69 means "entry number 69 in al-Daraqutni's catalog," while Bukhari 1050 means "hadith number 1050 in Sahih al-Bukhari as numbered on this site." The two referencing systems sit side by side because that is how the academic literature presents the dataset.
View 18 Disputed Narrations
| Ref | Scholar | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tatabbu' 69 | al-Daraqutni | Heaven and Hell: addition of 'he [the Prophet] separated them' by Sufyan b. Uyayna |
Ibn Hajar: al-Bukhari includes a second narration without the addition, so criticism does not undermine the tradition. Al-Nawawi:... |
| Tatabbu' 128 | al-Daraqutni | Uthman praises al-Zubayr — two incompatible wordings (matn difference) |
General defense: differences in wording do not undermine the basic tradition. |
| Tatabbu' 148 | al-Daraqutni | Witr prayer on donkey vs camel — matn discrepancy |
General defense applies. |
| Tatabbu' 166 | al-Daraqutni | Ali and Abu Dharr — same matn ascribed to both (maqlub/inversion) |
General defense: inversion does not undermine the tradition's content. |
| Tatabbu' 199 | al-Daraqutni | Date palms — Anas b. Malik's comment attributed to Prophet (idraj) |
General defense: the Companion's gloss was inserted but the core tradition is sound. |
| Bukhari (via Imran b. Hittan) | al-Daraqutni | Imran b. Hittan — Kharijite who praised Ali's murderer |
Ibn Hajar admits heretical leanings 'undermine the narration' but excuses al-Bukhari — it is auxiliary. Other scholars argue... |
| Tatabbu' 92 | al-Daraqutni | Al-Daraqutni defends the narration |
See Brown (2004) for details |
| Tatabbu' 201 | al-Daraqutni | Al-Daraqutni defends al-Bukhari's narration |
See Brown (2004) for details |
| Bukhari 1050 | al-Albani | Allah says: 'Three whose opponent I will be on the Day of Resurrection' — narrator with poor memory, disputed isnad |
IslamQA #178907: al-Bukhari included it as the narrator is acceptable to him; majority of scholars accept it. Also... |
| Bukhari 1143 | al-Albani | 'The likeness of the one who adheres to the limits set by Allah...' — phrase variant ('one who compromises' vs 'one who adheres') |
IslamQA #178907: al-Albani's concern is about a specific word variant, not the tradition itself. |
| Bukhari 1160 | al-Albani | The righteous slave: 'By the One in Whose hand is my soul, were it not for jihad...' — words of Abu Hurayrah inserted (idraj) |
IslamQA #178907: This is a known case of possible idraj; the core hadith is accepted. |
| Bukhari 1209 | al-Albani | Interrupted isnad noted by al-Isma'ili; Ibn Hajar had reservations about the text |
IslamQA #178907: al-Isma'ili highlighted interrupted chain; Ibn Hajar approved hadith but had text reservations. |
| Bukhari 1471 | al-Albani | The leper, the bald man and the blind man — phrase 'it occurred to Allah' deemed inappropriate |
IslamQA #178907: al-Albani objects to specific phrasing, not the tradition as a whole. |
| Bukhari 1475 | al-Albani | Hadith about the plague — narrator's addition of word 'except' is an error |
IslamQA #178907: the word 'except' is a narrator error; the core hadith remains sound. |
| Bukhari 1952 | al-Albani | 'Whoever dies owing fasts, his heir should fast on his behalf' — disputed by Imam Ahmad |
s-oman.net: Imam Ahmad questioned it per al-Dhahabi's Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' 6:10. Majority accept it. |
| Bukhari 2227 | al-Albani | Sacred hadith (qudsi): 'Three whose opponent I will be on Day of Resurrection' — weak isnad |
Al-Albani in Irwa' al-Ghalil 5:310 explicitly says: 'the best one could say is it might accept being graded... |
| Bukhari 2855 | al-Albani | The Prophet had a horse called al-Luhayf |
Listed in Da'if al-Jami'. Minor narration. |
| Bukhari 7435 | al-Albani | 'You will see your Lord clearly (iyanan) as you see the moon on a full-moon night' — word 'iyanan' is shadhdh/munkar |
Al-Albani in Zilal al-Janna p.201 #461: 'the soul is not at ease with the authenticity of this word... |