born July 19, 810, Bukhara, Central Asia
died Aug. 31, 870, Khartank, near Samarkand
Muslim compiler and scholar of Had 012B; th .
He began his study as a child in Central Asia and traveled as far as Mecca and Cairo to learn about Muhammad and his utterances. Of the 600,000 traditions he collected, he deemed 7,275 authentic and included them in Kit 0101; b al-j 0101; mi 02BD; al- 1E63; a 1E25; 012B; 1E25; ("Entirety of the Genuine"). His Kit 0101; b al-ta 02BE; r 012B; kh al-kab 012B; r ("The Great History") contains biographies of those who passed on the oral traditions from the days of the Prophet to Bukh 0101; r 012B; 's own era.