Introduction to Translation of Sahih Bukhari

Translator: M. Muhsin Khan

Sahih Bukhari's (full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin al-Mughira al-Ja'fai) was born in 194 A.H. and died in 256 A.H. He spent sixteen years compiling this collection, and ended up with 2,602 hadith (9,082 with repetition). His criteria for acceptance into the collection were amongst the most stringent of all the scholars of ahadith.