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'''Sahih Bukhari''' (in Arabic صحيح البخاري, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī) is a collection of hadiths (narrations) by a non-arab, al-Bukhari, who was born in Persia around 200 years after Muhammad's death <ref>Muhammad died 632. Bukhari was born 810.</ref>. He collected narrations which were transmitted only orally for generations. Although he started collecting the orally transmitted stories generations after Muhammad's death, the collection is called "authentic" (''sahih''). The [[Sahih|"authenticness" of a narration]] is judged by subjectively judging the people in the chain of narrators (if they were good truthful Muslims). In the English translation of the hadiths, often only the last narrator (the one who narrated it to Bukhari) is mentioned, but in the original Arabic, there is always a long list of narrators. This collection of hadiths is considered (by sunni Muslims) to be the most authentic along with the collection [[Sahih Muslim]]. It is also part of "the six books" (الكتب الستة, ''Al-Kutub as-Sittah''), the most trusted hadith collections. There are over 7000 narrations in the collection, but there are often different version of the same story, so the actual number of narrations is less than 3000 <ref>A.C. Brown, Jonathan (2009). Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Foundations of Islam series). Oneworld Publications. p. 32. ISBN 978-1851686636.</ref>.

The whole collection was translated to English by Muhsin Khan. His translations uses the 97 books version. The collection was translated into many other languages <ref>http://www.australianislamiclibrary.org/sahih-bukhari.html</ref>.

The English names of the books often aren't a literal translation of the Arabic original. For example the book "كتاب السلم" (''kitaab us-sallam'', book of payment) is named "A book of Sales in which a Price is paid for Goods to be Delivered Later". Other times they are so literal, that they are actually not translation, but only a transliteration, for example "Khusoomaat" (Quarrels).

There is more than one way of numbering the hadiths in this collection. Every hadith has it's own number (from 1 to 7495 <ref>http://al-islamic.net/hadith/bukhari</ref>, 7563<ref>https://sunnah.com/bukhari/97</ref> or 7658 <ref>http://al-islamic.net/hadith/bukhari/98</ref>), but the collection was also divided into volumes and books. There are either 93<ref>https://www.sahih-bukhari.com/Pages/Bukhari_2_20.php</ref>, 97 <ref>https://sunnah.com/bukhari</ref> or 98 <ref>http://al-islamic.net/hadith/bukhari</ref> books and there are 9 volumes (in the 93 books version). So for example, if someone tells you about a hadith in the book 98, you might find out your collection has only 93 books and the hadith is actually in the book 93 in your collection. Also what is in one version considered as two separate hadiths might be in other collection considered to be one big hadith. So we can't tell how many hadiths are there.  

In the 93 books (USC-MSA) version, the hadith numbering is not from the first hadith of the whole collection, but from the first hadith of the first book of the volume. The hadith identificator is volume:book:hadith. For example, 9:84:53, is the first hadith of the book 84, and it has the number 53, because volume 9 started with the book 83 and the book 83 has 52 hadiths. The same hadith could be described as 88:1, because it is the 1st hadith of the book 88 in the 97 books version (or 89:1 in the 97 books version). It could be also described with one number 6918, as it is the 6918th hadith from the beginning of the whole Sahih Bukhari collection (in the 93 books version). And it could be also described with the number 7004 (more than 6918), because in the 93 books version, some hadiths from the 98 books version, were "joined" and considered to be one hadith.

This is a list of all names used in different versions <ref>The 98 version is from the web al-islamic.net, the 97 version from sunnah.com and the 93 version from sahih-bukhari.com</ref>. The first three columns "98", "97" and "93" contain a number of the book with the name "Book name" in the 98, 97 or 93 version. The last three columns Q98, Q97 and Q93 contain the number of hadiths in the book "Book name" in the 98, 97 and 93 books version. "x" means that a book with this name is not a part of that version (the hadiths which would be in that book are in some other book instead).

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!Vol93

|4||4||4||1||Abolutions||114||113||111

|5||5||5||1||Bathing||44||46||45

|7||7||7||1||Rubbing hands and feet with dust||15||15||15

|8||8||8||1||Prayers||165||172||127

|x||x||9||1||Virtues of the prayer hall||x||x||27

|13||13||15||2||The two festivals||37||42||36

|15||15||17||2||Invoking Allah for rain||34||35||31

|19||19||21||2||Prayer at night||63||68||68

|20||20||x||x||Virtues of prayer at Masjid Makkah and Madinah||9||10||x

|22||22||x||x||Forgetfulness in prayer||14||13||

|x||x||25||2||Zakat ul-Fitr||x||x||10

|25||25||26||2||Pilgrimage||247||259||235

|26||26||27||3||Minor pilgrimage||33||33||32

|32||32||x||x||Virtues of the night of Qadr||11||x||x

|36||36||x||x||Shuf'a||3||3||x

|37||37||36||3||Hiring||25||26||

|38||38||37||3||Transferance of a debt from one person to another||3||3||

|39||39||x||x||Kafalah||9||9||

|40||40||38||3||Representation, Authorization, Business by proxy||18||21||

|41||41||39||3||Agriculture||28||31||

|42||42||40||3||Distribution of water||31||33||

|43||43||41||3||Loans, payment of loans, freezing of property, bankruptcy||24||25||

|44||44||x||x||Khusoomaat||15||16||

|45||45||42||3||Lost things picked up by someone||15||14||

|46||46||43||3||Oppressions||43||44||

|47||47||44||3||Partnership||22||25||

|48||48||45||3||Mortgaging||8||8||

|49||49||46||3||Manumission of slaves||42||43||

|50||50||x||x||Makaatib||6||6||

|51||51||47||3||Gifts||69||71||

|52||52||48||3||Witnesses||62||53||

|53||53||49||3||Peacemaking||20||21||

|54||54||50||3||Conditions||24||27||

|55||55||51||4||Wills and testaments||45||44||

|56||56||52||4||Fighting for the cause of Allah (jihaad)||311||309||

|57||57||53||4||One-fifth of booty to the cause of Allah||63||65||

|58||58||x||x||Jizyah and mawaada'ah||30||34||

|59||59||54||4||Beginning of creation||137||136||

|60||60||55||4||Prophets||156||163||

|61||61||56||4||Virtues and merits of the prophet and his companions / merits of sunnah||152||160||

|62||62||57||5||Companions of the prophet||136||127||

|63||63||58||5||Merits of the helpers in Madinah||179||173||

|64||64||59||5||Military expeditions led by the prophet||510||525||

|65||65||60||6||Prophetic commentary on the Qur'an||516||504||

|66||66||61||6||Virtues of the Qur'an||89||85||

|67||67||62||7||Wedlock, marriage||189||188||

|68||68||63||7||Divorce||101||100||

|69||69||64||7||Supporting the family||23||22||

|70||70||65||7||Food, meals||96||94||

|71||71||66||7||Sacrifice on occasion of birth||9||8||

|72||72||67||7||Hunting, slaughtering||71||70||

|73||73||68||7||Al-Adha festival sacrifice||31||30||

|74||74||69||7||Drinks||67||65||

|75||75||70||7||Patients||38||38||

|76||76||71||7||Medicine||94||105||

|77||77||72||7||Dress||194||187||

|78||78||73||8||Good manners and form||266||257||

|79||79||74||8||Asking permission||78||77||

|80||80||75||8||Invocations||106||108||

|81||81||76||8||To make the heart tender||186||182||

|82||82||77||8||Divine will||27||27||

|83||83||78||8||Oaths and vows||89||87||

|84||84||79||8||Expiation for unfulfilled oaths||16||16||

|85||85||80||8||Laws of inheritance||47||49||

|86||86||81||8||Limits and punishments set by Allah||31||88

|87||x||82||8||Punishments of disbelievers at war with Allah and his apostle / Disbelievers||52||x||

|88||87||83||9||Blood money||55||57||

|89||88||84||9||Dealing with apostates||21||22||

|90||89||85||9||Saying something under compulsion||13||13||

|91||90||86||9||Tricks||28||29||

|92||91||87||9||Interpretation of dreams||68||66||

|93||92||88||9||Afflictions and the end of the world||90||89||

|94||93||89||9||Judgements||87||89||

|95||94||90||9||Wishes||22||20||

|96||95||91||9||Accepting information given by a truthful person||21||22||

|97||96||92||9||Holding fast to the Qur'an and sunnah||98||103||

|98||97||93||9||Oneness, uniqueness of Allah||194||193||