Hadith Sahih Al-Bukhari Collection:
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 1:
Revelation --> Book 1, Number 1-6
Belief --> Book 2, Number 7 - 55
Knowledge --> Book 3, Number 56 - 136
Ablutions (Wudu') --> Book 4, Number 137 - 247
Bathing (Ghusl) --> Book 5, Number 248 - 292
Menstrual Periods --> Book 6, Number 293 - 329
Rubbing hands and feet with dust (Tayammum) --> Book 7, Number 330 - 344
Prayers (Salat) --> Book 8, Number 345 - 471
Virtues of the Prayer Hall (Sutra of the Musalla) --> Book 9, Number 472 - 499
Times of the Prayers --> Book 10, Number 500 - 576
Call to Prayers (Adhaan) --> Book 11, Number 577 - 698
Characteristics of Prayer --> Book 12, Number 699 - 832
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 2:
Friday Prayer --> Book 13, Number 1 - 63
Fear Prayer --> Book 14, Number 64 - 68
The Two Festivals (Eids) --> Book 15, Number 69 - 104
Witr Prayer --> Book 16, Number 105 - 118
Invoking Allah for Rain (Istisqaa) --> Book 17, Number 119 - 149
Eclipses --> Book 18, Number 150 - 172
Prostration During Recital of Qur'an --> Book 19, Number 173 - 185
Shortening the Prayers (At-Taqseer) --> Book 20, Number 186 - 220
Prayer at Night (Tahajjud) --> Book 21, Number 221 - 288
Actions while Praying --> Book 22, Number 289 - 328
Funerals (Al-Janaa'iz) --> Book 23, Number 329 - 483
Obligatory Charity Tax (Zakat) --> Book 24, Number 484 - 578
Obligatory Charity Tax After Ramadaan (Zakat ul Fitr) --> Book 25, Number 579 - 588
Pilgrimmage (Hajj) --> Book 26, Number 589 - 823
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 3:
Minor Pilgrammage (Umra) --> Book 27, Number 1 - 32
Pilgrims Prevented from Completing the Pilgrimmage) --> Book 28, Number 33 - 46
Penalty of Hunting while on Pilgrimmage --> Book 29, Number 47 - 90
Virtues of Madinah --> Book 30, Number 91 - 114
Fasting --> Book 31, Number 115 - 225
Praying at Night in Ramadaan (Taraweeh) --> Book 32, Number 226 - 241
Retiring to a Mosque for Remembrance of Allah (I'tikaf) --> Book 33, Number 242 - 262
Sales and Trade --> Book 34, Number 263 - 440
Sales in which a Price is paid for Goods to be Delivered Later (As-Salam) --> Book 35, Number 441 - 460
Hiring --> Book 36, Number 461 - 485
Transferance of a Debt from One Person to Another (Al-Hawaala) --> Book 37, Number 486 - 495
Representation, Authorization, Business by Proxy --> Book 38, Number 496 - 512
Agriculture --> Book 39, Number 513 - 540
Distribution of Water --> Book 40, Number 541 - 569
Loans, Payment of Loans, Freezing of Property, Bankruptcy --> Book 41, Number 570 - 607
Lost Things Picked up by Someone (Luqaata) --> Book 42, Number 608 - 619
Oppressions --> Book 43, Number 620 - 662
Partnership --> Book 44, Number 663 - 684
Mortgaging --> Book 45, Number 685 - 692
Manumission of Slaves --> Book 46, Number 693 - 739
Gifts --> Book 47, Number 740 - 804
Witnesses --> Book 48, Number 805 - 854
Peacemaking --> Book 49, Number 855 - 873
Conditions --> Book 50, Number 874 - 895
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 4:
Wills and Testaments (Wasaayaa) --> Book 51, Number 1 - 40
Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihaad) --> Book 52, Number 41 - 323
One-fifth of Booty to the Cause of Allah (Khumus) --> Book 53, Number 324 - 412
Beginning of Creation --> Book 54, Number 413 - 542
Prophets --> Book 55, Number 543 - 658
Virtues and Merits of the Prophet (pbuh) and his Companions --> Book 56, Number 659 - 841
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 5:
Companions of the Prophet --> Book 57, Number 1 - 119
Merits of the Helpers in Madinah (Ansaar) --> Book 58, Number 120 - 284
Military Expeditions led by the Prophet (pbuh) (Al-Maghaazi) --> Book 59, Number 285 - 749
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 6:
Prophetic Commentary on the Qur'an (Tafseer of the Prophet (pbuh)) --> Book 60, Number 1 - 501
Virtues of the Qur'an --> Book 61, Number 502 - 582
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 7:
Wedlock, Marriage (Nikaah) --> Book 62, Number 1 - 177
Divorce --> Book 63, Number 178 - 262
Supporting the Family --> Book 64, Number 263 - 285
Food, Meals --> Book 65, Number 286 - 375
Sacrifice on Occasion of Birth (`Aqiqa) --> Book 66, Number 376 - 383
Hunting, Slaughtering --> Book 67, Number 384 - 452
Al-Adha Festival Sacrifice (Adaahi) --> Book 68, Number 453 - 480
Drinks --> Book 69, Number 481 - 543
Patients --> Book 70, Number 544 - 581
Medicine --> Book 71, Number 582 - 673
Dress --> Book 72, Number 674 - 852
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 8:
Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab) --> Book 73, Number 1 - 245
Asking Permission --> Book 74, Number 246 - 316
Invocations --> Book 75, Number 317e - 420
To make the Heart Tender (Ar-Riqaq) --> Book 76, Number 421 - 592
Divine Will (Al-Qadar) --> Book 77, Number 593 - 617
Oaths and Vows --> Book 78, Number 618 - 698
Expiation for Unfulfilled Oaths --> Book 79, Number 699 - 715
Laws of Inheritance (Al-Faraa'id) --> Book 80, Number 716 - 762
Limits and Punishments set by Allah (Hudood) --> Book 81, Number 763 - 793
Punishment of Disbelievers at War with Allah and His Apostle --> Book 82, Number 794 - 842
Hadith Sahih Bukhari Volume 9:
Blood Money (Ad-Diyat) --> Book 83, Number 1 - 52
Dealing with Apostates --> Book 84, Number 53 - 72
Saying Something under Compulsion (Ikraah) --> Book 85, Number 73 - 84
Tricks --> Book 86, Number 85 - 110
Interpretation of Dreams --> Book 87, Number 111 - 171
Afflictions and the End of the World --> Book 88, Number 172 - 250
Judgments (Ahkaam) --> Book 89, Number 251 - 331
Wishes --> Book 90, Number 332 - 351
Accepting Information Given by a Truthful Person --> Book 91, Number 352 - 372
Holding Fast to the Qur'an and Sunnah --> Book 92, Number 373 - 468
ONENESS, UNIQUENESS OF ALLAH (TAWHEED) --> Book 93, Number 469 - 652
Overview
Al-Bukhari traveled widely throughout the Abbasid empire since he was sixteen years, collecting those traditions he thought trustworthy. It is said that al-Bukhari collected over 300,000 hadith and included only 2,602 traditions in his Sahih. At the time when Bukhari saw works and conveyed them, he found them, in their presentation, combining between what would be considered sahih and hasan and that many of them included da’if hadith. This aroused his interest in compiling hadith whose authenticity was beyond doubt. What further strengthened his resolve was something his teacher, Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Hanthalee – better known as Ibn Rahoyah – had said. Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel al-Bukhari said, “We were with Ishaq ibn Rahoyah who said, ‘If only you would compile a book of only authentic narrations of the Prophet.’ This suggestion remained in my heart so I began compiling the Sahih.” Bukhari also said, “I saw the Prophet in a dream and it was as if I was standing in front of him. In my hand was a fan with which I was protecting him. I asked some dream interpreters, who said to me, ‘You will protect him from lies.’ This is what compelled me to produce the Sahih.”
The book covers almost all aspects of life in providing proper guidance of Islam such as the method of performing prayers and other actions of worship directly from the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Sahih al-Bukhari is the work of over 16 years by Bukhari, who before writing any Hadith in this book performed ablution and two units of prayer asking guidance from Allah. Then he would do the necessary research and investigation, observing if the particular Hadith fits in to his strict criteria of authenticity and if he is sure that the Hadith is authentic, he wrote it in the book.
Bukhari finished his work around 846, and spent the last twenty-four years of his life visiting other cities and scholars, teaching the hadith he had collected. In every city that he visited, thousands of people would gather in the main mosque to listen to him recite traditions. In reply to Western academic doubts as to the actual date and authorship of the book that bears his name, Sunni scholars point out that notable hadith scholars of that time, such as Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (855 CE/241 AH), Ibn Maīn (847 CE/233 AH), and Ibn Madīni (848 CE/234 AH), accepted the authenticity of his book and that the collection's immediate fame makes it unlikely that it could have been revised after the author's death.
During this period of twenty-four years, Bukhari made minor revisions to his book, notably the chapter headings. Each version is named by its narrator. According to Ibn Hajar Asqalani in his book Nukat, the number of hadiths in all versions is the same. The most famous one today is the version narrated by al-Firabri (d. 932 CE/320 AH), a trusted student of Bukhari. Khatib al-Baghdadi in his book History of Baghdad quoted Firabri as saying: "About seventy thousand people heard Sahih Bukhari with me".
Firabri is not the only transmitter of Sahih Bukhari. There were many others that narrated that book to later generations, such as Ibrahim ibn Ma'qal (d. 907 CE/295 AH), Hammad ibn Shaker (d. 923 CE/311 AH), Mansur Burduzi (d. 931 CE/319 AH) and Husain Mahamili (d. 941 CE/330 AH). There are many books that noted differences between these versions, the best known being Fath al-Bari.
Authenticity of Hadith Sahih Al Bukhari
Ibn al-Salah said: "The first to author a Sahih was Bukhari, Abu ‘Abdillah Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel al-Ju’fee, followed by Aboo al-Husain Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Naisaabooree al-Qushairee, who was his student, sharing many of the same teachers. These two books are the most authentic books after the Quran. As for the statement of al-Shafi’i, who said “I do not know of a book containing knowledge more correct than Malik’s book,” – others mentioned it with a different wording – he said this before the books of Bukhari and Muslim. The book of Bukhari is the more authentic of the two and more useful."
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani quoted Aboo Ja’far al-‘Uqailee as saying, "After Bukhari had written the Sahih, he read it to Ali ibn al-Madini, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Yahya ibn Ma'in as well as others. They considered it a good effort and testified to its authenticity with the exception of four hadith. Al-‘Uqailee then said that Bukhari was actually correct regarding those four hadith." Ibn Hajar then concluded, "And they are, in fact, authentic."
Ibn al-Salah said in his Muqaddimah: "It has been narrated to us that Bukhari has said, 'I have not included in the book al-Jami’ other than what is authentic and I did not include other authentic hadith for the sake of brevity.'" In addition, al-Dhahabi said, "Bukhari was heard saying, 'I have memorized one hundred thousand authentic hadith and two hundred thousand which are less than authentic.'”
Number of hadith Sahih al-Bukhari
Ibn al-Salah also said: "The number of hadith in his book, the Sahih, is seven thousand, two hundred and seventy five hadith including hadith occurring repeatedly. It has been said that this number excluding repeated hadith is four thousand." This is referring to those hadith which are musnad, those from the Companions originating from the Prophet with what is apparently a connected chain.
