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'''Sahih Bukhari''' (in Arabic صحيح البخاري, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī) is a collection of [[Hadith (definition)|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, and sometimes only the first narrator from the time of Muhammad is mentioned.<ref>The most common narrators from Muhammad's generation are Abu Huraira and Aisha. See also [https://sunnah.com/search/?q=abu+huraira] and [https://sunnah.com/search/?q=narrated+aisha].</ref> 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 in sunni Islam. There are over 7000 narrations in the collection, but there are often different versions 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>.
'''Sahih Bukhari''' (in Arabic صحيح البخاري, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī) is a collection of [[Hadith (definition)|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, and sometimes only the first narrator from the time of Muhammad is mentioned.<ref>The most common narrators from Muhammad's generation are Abu Huraira and Aisha. See also [https://sunnah.com/search/?q=abu+huraira] and [https://sunnah.com/search/?q=narrated+aisha].</ref> 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 in sunni Islam. There are over 7000 narrations in the collection, but there are often different versions 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>.
==Contents==
===Allah's hadiths===
The words of Allah are not only in the Quran but in the hadiths also:
{{Quote|{{Bukhari|2|21|246}}|
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) (p.b.u.h) said, "Our Lord, the Blessed, the Superior, comes every night down on the nearest Heaven to us when the last third of the night remains, saying: "Is there anyone to invoke Me, so that I may respond to invocation? Is there anyone to ask Me, so that I may grant him his request? Is there anyone seeking My forgiveness, so that I may forgive him?"
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This hadith is also scientifically wrong, because there is no time of "the last third of the night". The Sun constantly shines on the Earth which rotates around its own axis and "the last third of the night" is subjectively experienced constantly somewhere on Earth. However the hadith is perfectly in line with the model of flat earth with the Sun orbiting around it.
===Fairy tales===
Animals talk and Muhammad believes it:
{{Quote|{{Bukhari|5|57|15}}|
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, "While a shepherd was amongst his sheep, a wolf attacked them and took away one sheep. When the shepherd chased the wolf, the wolf turned towards him and said, 'Who will be its guard on the day of wild animals when nobody except I will be its shepherd. And while a man was driving a cow with a load on it, it turned towards him and spoke to him saying, 'I have not been created for this purpose, but for ploughing." The people said, "Glorified be Allah." The Prophet said, "But I believe in it and so does Abu Bakr end `Umar."
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===Ridiculous stories===
Monkeys stone a monkey and  `Amr bin Maimun joins them:
{{Quote|{{Bukhari|5|58|188}}|
Narrated `Amr bin Maimun:
During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them.
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===Gibberish===
In The Book of Hunting, Slaughtering (كتاب الذبائح والصيد), al-Bukhari wrote at the beginning of chapter 12 (the texts in the beginnings of chapters are usually not translated in English translations):
{{Quote|Bukhari, Book of Hunting, Slaughtering, chapter 12 ""Lawful to you is water-game and its use for food .... For the benefit of yourselves" <ref>https://sunnah.com/bukhari/72</ref>|
وَقَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ فِي الْمُرِي ذَبَحَ الْخَمْرَ النِّينَانُ وَالشَّمْسُ
And Abu Darda said regarding the soup: '''He slaughtered the wine, Nuns and the Sun.'''
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Nun is the Arabic letter ن.


==Bukhari's original manuscripts==
==Bukhari's original manuscripts==
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