AL-BUKHARI 810 - 870 Islamic Traditionist Al-Bukhari was a compiler of the Sahib, one of the six canonical collections in Sunni Islam that reported the sayings of Mohammed. Al-Bukhari was born in Bukhara in Central Asia. Beginning with a pilgrimage to Mecca he spent a lifetime to collect information about the Prophet Mohammed. From the some 600,000 traditions he gathered he included only those he deemed completely reliable in his 'al-Jami as-sahih. |
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