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Practice these MCQs in the appQuick fact: The compiler of the most authentic collection of hadith is Imam Bukhari.
Imam Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari (810–870 CE) compiled Sahih al-Bukhari, which is unanimously regarded by Sunni Muslims as the most authentic book after the Holy Quran. He spent over 16 years traveling across the Islamic world, collecting over 600,000 hadith narrations, from which he selected approximately 7,275 (including repetitions) based on his rigorous criteria for authenticity. His collection is considered the gold standard in hadith sciences due to his strict conditions for accepting a narration, including the requirement that the chain of narrators be unbroken and that each narrator be of impeccable character and memory.
Sahih al-Bukhari is the first of the six major hadith collections known as Sihah Sitta. Imam Bukhari's full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, and he was born in Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan). His methodology required that narrators must have met each other (contemporaneity) and that each transmitter be trustworthy (thiqa) and possess a strong memory. The second most authentic collection is Sahih Muslim, compiled by Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, who was a student of Imam Bukhari.
