Knowledgeable Muslims, this is a question for u. No Hadith deniers?

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Many of the hadith deniers claim that the writer of the book Sahih Bukhari came a century after Muhammad (P.B.U.H), and being from Bukhara, didn't even know Arabic. Can u give me some info. about Imam Bukhari, which will refute the claims of the hadith haters?

Answer 1

he was born in 194 AH, the prophet (saw) died in 11 AH, and Hadiths were scattered here and there and needed really a big effort and facing hardships to be collected so he used to travel a lot, it took from him 25 years collecting the Hadiths then had classified it 3 times before he published it in its current form,,

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Bukhar...

This might help you for your research..

Answer 3

Imam Bukhari (194 - 265)

After the Sahâbah al-kirâm, Imâm al-Bukhârî ranks as the most eminent of those pious people who have conferred endless bliss upon the Ummah of the Holy Prophet sallallâhu `alayhi wa sallam. The greatest evidence of this is the book of Ahâdîth an-Nabawî he compiled, commonly known as Sahîh al-Bukhârî. It is universally acknowledged as the most authentic book after the Holy Qur'ân. So long as their is one Muslim left on the Earth, the blessings of Imâm Bukhârî will have a place in his or her Îmân and Islâm. Let us briefly examine below a short survey of his life and works.

Imâm al-muhaddithîn Hadrat Imâm Abû `Abdullâh Muhammad ibn Ismâ`îl al-Bukhârî was born on the 13th of the Islâmic month of Shawwâl, 194AH, in the famous city of Bukhara, of the land "beyond the canal" - present day Uzbekistan -. The father of Imâm Bukhârî, Ismâ`îl ibn Ibrâhîm ibn Mughîrah al-Ja`fî, was a great muhaddith and ascetic from whom he inherited his characteristics of literary zeal and excellence. During infancy his father passed away and his mother took on the entire responsibility of bringing him up. Imâm Bukhârî became blind at a young age. He had recourse to many famous and skilled doctors of his time but their treatments made no difference. His mother was a pious worshipper and a righteous woman. She cried out for help in the court of Allâh the Almighty, for her child and begged for the restoration of his eyesight. At last, "the river of mercy flowed over her," and Almighty Allâh accepted her invocation. One night, she visited Ibrâhîm `alayhis-salâm in a dream and was told, "Allâh has restored the sight of your son because of your intense and beautiful invocations." In the morning, as Imâm Bukhârî got up from his bed, glimmers of light reached out into his eyes.

When Imâm Bukhârî reached the age of ten and after acquiring his elementary education, Almighty Allâh inserted the interest in the science of Ahadîth into his heart and he obtained admission in the Hadîth class of Bukhara. He obtained his educations after vigorous study. A year later, he had such a good retention of the text and chains of transmission of Ahâdîth, that sometimes teachers got their corrections from him. Imâm Bukhârî had been acquiring religious education with competance and swiftness and at the tender age of sixteen, he had completely learnt by heart the books of `Abdullâh ibn al-Mubârak, al-Wakî` and other learned companions of al-Imâm Abû Hanîfa radiyallâhu `anhum.

At the age of eighteen, He visited Makkah accompanied by his mother and elder brother, Ahmad ibn Ismâ`îl. After performing the pilgrimage, his brother returned with the company of his mother, but Imâm Bukhârî stayed there for further education. Meanwhile, he wrote a book called, Qadâyâ as-Sahâbah wat-Tâbi`în. After this he went to Madînah al-munawwarah to compile the famous book of Asmâ` ar-rijâl (Names of men of   transmission) called, Târîkh al-kabîr, while sitting by the tomb of the Holy Prophet sallallâhu `alayhi wa sallam during moonlight hours. Immediately after completing this, a series of imitations had begun. Muhammad ibn Yûsaf al-Furyâbî said that at the time he had copied Târîkh al-kabîr, Imâm Bukhârî did not yet have any facial hair.

Imâm Bukhârî travelled to cities far and wide for the transmission of Ahâdîth and had gained immense knowledge while sitting far from his own country for several years. He stated himself, "To seek knowledge, I travelled to Egypt and Syria twice, Basra four times, spent six years at the Hijâz and left for Kufa and Baghdad on so many occasions accompanied by Muhaddithîn."

Imâm Bukhârî was a man with a very strong memory. When we look at his memory, it is as if his body from head to toe stored it. Seeing his memory, the memory of Abû Hurayrah radiyallâhu `anhu is rekindled in the hearts of Muslims. Hashid ibn Ismâ`îl states that in his childhood: "Imâm Bukhârî used to go with us to the Scholars of Basra to listen to Ahâdîth. All of us used to write Ahâdîth down, except Imâm Bukhârî. After sixteen days, we thought about it and we condemned Imâm Bukhârî saying that, 'you had wasted so many days work by not writing down Ahâdîth.' Imâm Bukhârî asked us to bring our notes to him. So we all brought our notes, upon which Imâm Bukhârî began to read Ahâdîth one by one from the top of his head until he narrated to us more than fifteen thousand! Hearing these, it seemed that Imâm Bukhârî was reteaching us all of the Ahâdîth we had noted."

Muhammad ibn Azhar Sajistânî says: "I used to go to Sulaymân ibn Harab accompanied by Imâm Bukhârî for listening to Ahâdîth. I used to write the Ahâdîth, but Imâm Bukhârî wouldn't. Somone said to me, 'Why doesn't Imâm Bukhârî note the Ahâdîth down?' I told him, 'if you missed any Hâdîth in writing, you could obtain it from the memory of Imâm Bukhârî.'"

Imâm Bukhârî's memory could be understood by knowing that if he glanced through a book, it would be committed to memory instantly.  

Answer 4

He learnt arabic!  

Answer 5

I can give you a lot about Imaam al-Bukhaaree who actually had impeccable Arabic.

Just give me some time to mention a little bit about him. I have to translate it.

Answer 6

Yes i know he was born in Uzbekistan.But i believe he spoke Arabic.Learning Arabic wasnt too hard that time.Besides he lived in Arabia for many years of his life.He traveled many places and met with many scholars in Islam.How did he communicate with them if he didnt speak Arabic?

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@ Abul Harith, can you also please answer my question here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

User Shaibany got me confused.He posted a link where they claimed we are not supposed raise  our hands (rafa al yadain)when we pray Salat

Answer 7

off course:-

http://www.call-to-monotheism.com/refuti...

Its like the author knew that u would ask this question

Answer 8

http://umabdullah.wordpress.com/category...

Have a read of this.

You really need to know about Usool of Hadith - how they are classified and passed down.

These Rejectors don't understand any of this, if they did they wouldn't reject it all!

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals...

Answer 9

His full name is Muhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari ( محمد بن اسماعيل بن ابراهيم بن المغيرة بن بردزبه البخاري).

Bukhari was born in Shawal 13, 194 AH in the city of Bukhara (which was a part of Iran/Persia at that time), in what is today Uzbekistan. His father, Ismail Ibn Ibrahim, was a known hadith scholar that died while Bukhari was young

At age of sixteen, he, together with his brother and widowed mother made the pilgrimage to Mecca. From there he made 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 recorded that he stayed at Basrah for four or five years, and in the Hijaz for six; while he travelled to Egypt twice and to Kufah and Baghdad many times.

At the age of 54, he came to the great Central Asian city of Neyshabour(Nishapur). He received a "grand reception" , wished to settle down there and devoted himself to teaching hadith.

It was in Neyshabour that he met Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. He would be considered his student, and eventually author of Sahih Muslim.

Khalid ibn Ahmad al-Dhuhali summoned Bukhari to hold lectures at his palace, but Bukhari declined. This resulted in Bukhari being obliged to leave the town, and he travelled to Khartank, a village near Bukhara, at the request of its inhabitants. He settled there and died in the year 256 AH, 62 years old.

On one occasion, it is said that he was travelling on a boat and had 500 gold coins with him to get him through his journey. While at sea, one of the people on the boat saw his money, and out of greed, he began screaming "I had 500 gold coins and someone has stolen it". At that moment, Imam Bukhari threw his 500 gold coins in to the ocean. The whole boat was searched and no coins were found. After arriving at their destination, the man asked Imam Bukhari, "what did you do with the money?", he replied, "I threw it in the ocean". Out of shock the man asked why. Imam Bukhari replied, "I am compiling a book of the hadith of the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him), I cannot allow anything to damage my reputation and discredit me".

Sunni Muslims view him as one of the greatest scholars of Islam, a great man for whose work the world's Muslims have a lot in debt.

Sunni sources describe him thus:

Mahmud ibn Nasr reported: "I went to Basra, Syria, the Hijaz, and Kufa and met scholars there. Whenever Bukhari was mentioned, every one of them stated he was better."

Ibn Khuzaymah said: "I have never seen under the sun one more learned in the hadiths of the Prophet, upon him be peace, than Muhammad ibn Isma'il al Bukhari"

Throughout his life, al-Bukhaaree displayed the character of a devout and pious Muslim scholar. He was rigorous in the observance of his religious duties, ensuring that rather than relying on charity he always lived by means of trade, in which he was scrupulously honest. Once he lost ten thousand dirhams on account of a minute scruple. A good deal of his income, in fact, was spent on helping the students and the poor. It is said that he never showed an ill-temper to anyone, even when there was more than sufficient cause; nor did he bear ill-will against anybody. Even towards those who had caused his exile from Nishapur, he harboured no grudge.

A memorial complex containing a mausoleum was erected over his grave in 1998.

s**+'a view on Bukhari is that he strove to preserve Islam and consider this a commendable effort.

s**+'a point out to other Sunni scholars whom they feel did not have this bias, for example, Bukharis student Imam Muslim, who included the hadith of the two weighty things (a controversial hadith whose interpretation is contested among Sunnis and s**+'as) in his Sahih Muslim, and also Sunni scholars that had the opposite view. For example, Hakim al-Nishaburi included a very high number of pro-Ahl al-Bayt hadith in his book entitled Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain, some hadith of which he claimed fulfilled Bukharis criteria of authenticity. Hakim however was accused by some of s**+'ism, and of including spurious narrations whilst declaring them sound.

Answer 10

sister, it is not unusual for a Muslim to not know about sahih alBukhari and Muslim because not every Muslim is a scholar.

however, those two man used a scientific method to filter hadiths that were available at the time, so the hadiths that they declared as TRUE with strong narration threads can statistically not be fake.

Muslim do not take those books as authentic because they like Bukhari and Muslim... but because those men PROVED scientifically the hadiths as well authentic.

Answer 11

(you forgot Al-Albani. 1,400 years after the prophet's death, he made hadith 'more' clear. In year 3,600 Al-Amriki will make hadith again even 'more' clear than Al-Albani. Read hadith'ite literature and you'll see some of them even quoting directly form Al-Albani. Maybe he's the 'new bukhari'?).

Answer 12

There's something of stronger importance to consider than Bukhari's history or credentials.

The Qur'an is sent to be the criterion for judging true from false. The ahadis of Bukhari and the other 5 "right ones" just do not make the standard.

Is there anyway to justify all the tales of sodomy, torture and shirk (the adult breast-feeding thing is too much!)?

When I want to learn about the true religion of Ibrahim, I do not expect to be regailed with graphic accounts of s*x acts, relieving oneself in public, etc, etc...

Suppose someone told these things about YOU. How would you feel? And this is acceptable behaviour toward the Messengers of God?

Think of the CONTENT of the ahadis. How can you justify this with Al Qur'an as your Furqan (criterion)?

Your prayer is not described there, either. Many conflicting accounts of tiny aspects of it.

This is the same thing as was done to the Injeel and the Tawrat. Mix up the history however you like, but the proof is in the Book.

The Prophets are accused of similar things in the Old Testament.

I'm all for listening to and accepting wisdom from learned men. But when someone says something completely at variance with obvious truth, what obligation is on me to take his word?

Allah warned about all this in Al Qur'an. You read how the Christians and Israelites were chastised for taking their sholars' pronouncements over the Law the all had with them.

You also find there the prohibition against sectarianism. Is there anything causing the differences among muslims other than their beloved ahadis?

Last, what criticism comes to muslims for their belief except the things they say themselves from hadith? Child molester, torturer, abuser of women, barbarian!

All those things come from the ahadis and tafsir written from them. And it all conflicts even with itself! This is no model scholarship, as we're told!

If you know better than this, I'd love to hear it. But I won't accept a religion that swears against the Prophets of God and encourages that kind of awful behaviour. This is the opposite of Al Qur'an.

Answer 13

Thats wrong. Imam Bukhari is very knowledgeable person. He mentioned validity and invalidity of all Hadiths. He gave the perfect lists of the persons who quoted the Hadiths. He also wrote some Hadiths which were not hadiths at all but he mentioned their status as well.

Btw, Hadith is also a source in Islam. As far as it is stated in Quran:

3:32 Say: “pay heed unto God and the Apostle.” And if they turn away - verely, God does not love those who deny the truth.

3:132 And pay heed unto God and the Apostle, so that you might be graced with mercy.

4:13 These are the bounds set by God. And whoever pays heed unto God and His Apostle, him will He bring into gardens through which running waters flow, therein to abide: and this is a triumph supreme.

4:80 Whoever pays heed unto the Apostle pays heed unto God thereby; and as for those who turn away - We have not sent thee to be their keeper.

Hope it answers the question.

Answer 14

No he gathered all of the ahadeeth of the Rasool (SAAW).