born July 19, 810, Bukhara, Central Asia
died Aug. 31, 870, Khartank, near Samarkand
Muslim compiler and scholar of
He began his study as a child in Central Asia and traveled as far as Mecca and Cairo to learn about {{link=Muhammad">Muhammad and his utterances. Of the 600,000 traditions he collected, he deemed 7,275 authentic and included them in Kitāb al-jāmiʽ al-ṣaḥīḥ ("Entirety of the Genuine"). His Kitāb al-taʾrīkh al-kabīr ("The Great History") contains biographies of those who passed on the oral traditions from the days of the Prophet to Bukhārī's own era.