Sahih Bukhari

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Sahih Bukhari (in Arabic صحيح البخاري, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī) is a collection of hadiths (narrations) by a non-arab, al-Bukhari, who was born in Persia around 200 years after Muhammad's death [1]. He collected narrations which were transmitted only orally for generations. Although he started collecting the orally transmitted stories generations after Muhammad's death, the collection is called "authentic" (sahih). The "authenticness" of a narration is judged by subjectively judging the people in the chain of narrators (if they were good truthful Muslims). In the English translation of the hadiths, often only the last narrator (the one who narrated it to Bukhari) is mentioned, but in the original Arabic, there is always a long list of narrators. This collection of hadiths is considered (by sunni Muslims) to be the most authentic along with the collection Sahih Muslim. It is also part of "the six books" (الكتب الستة, Al-Kutub as-Sittah), the most trusted hadith collections. There are over 7000 narrations in the collection, but there are often different version of the same story, so the actual number of narrations is less than 3000 [2].

Translations

The whole collection was translated to English by Muhsin Khan. His translations uses the 97 books version. The collection was translated into many other languages [3].

The English names of the books often aren't a literal translation of the Arabic original. For example the book "كتاب السلم" (kitaab us-sallam, book of payment) is named "A book of Sales in which a Price is paid for Goods to be Delivered Later". Other times they are so literal, that they are actually not translation, but only a transliteration, for example "Khusoomaat" (Quarrels).

Ambiguous numbering

There is more than one way of numbering the hadiths in this collection. Every hadith has it's own number (from 1 to 7495 [4], 7563[5] or 7658 [6]), but the collection was also divided into volumes and books. There are either 93[7], 97 [8] or 98 [9] books and there are 9 volumes (in the 93 books version). So for example, if someone tells you about a hadith in the book 98, you might find out your collection has only 93 books and the hadith is actually in the book 93 in your collection. Also what is in one version considered as two separate hadiths might be in other collection considered to be one big hadith. So we can't tell how many hadiths are there.

In the 93 books (USC-MSA) version, the hadith numbering is not from the first hadith of the whole collection, but from the first hadith of the first book of the volume. The hadith identificator is volume:book:hadith. For example, 9:84:53, is the first hadith of the book 84, and it has the number 53, because volume 9 started with the book 83 and the book 83 has 52 hadiths. The same hadith could be described as 88:1, because it is the 1st hadith of the book 88 in the 97 books version (or 89:1 in the 97 books version). It could be also described with one number 6918, as it is the 6918th hadith from the beginning of the whole Sahih Bukhari collection (in the 93 books version). And it could be also described with the number 7004 (more than 6918), because in the 93 books version, some hadiths from the 98 books version, were "joined" and considered to be one hadith.


This is a list of all names used in different versions [10]. The first three columns "98", "97" and "93" contain a number of the book with the name "Book name" in the 98, 97 or 93 version. The last three columns Q98, Q97 and Q93 contain the number of hadiths in the book "Book name" in the 98, 97 and 93 books version. "x" means that a book with this name is not a part of that version (the hadiths which would be in that book are in some other book instead).


98 97 93 Vol93 Book name Q98 Q97 Q93
1 1 1 1 Revelation 7 7 6
2 2 2 1 Belief 51 51 49
3 3 3 1 Knowledge 78 76 81
4 4 4 1 Abolutions 114 113 111
5 5 5 1 Bathing 44 46 45
6 6 6 1 Menstrual periods 37 40 37
7 7 7 1 Rubbing hands and feet with dust 15 15 15
8 8 8 1 Prayers 165 172 127
x x 9 1 Virtues of the prayer hall x x 27
9 9 10 1 Times of prayers 78 82 77
10 10 11 1 Call to prayers 265 273 122
x x 12 1 Characteristics of prayer x x 134
11 11 13 2 Friday prayer 65 66 63
12 12 14 2 Fear prayer 6 6 5
13 13 15 2 The two festivals 37 42 36
14 14 16 2 Witr prayer 15 15 14
15 15 17 2 Invoking Allah for rain 34 35 31
16 16 18 2 Eclipses 24 25 23
17 17 19 2 Prostration during recital of Qur'an 13 13 13
18 18 20 2 Shortening the prayers 37 40 35
19 19 21 2 Prayer at night 63 68 68
20 20 x x Virtues of prayer at Masjid Makkah and Madinah 9 10 x
21 21 22 2 Actions while praying 27 26 40
22 22 x x Forgetfulness in prayer 14 13 x
23 23 23 2 Funerals 149 158 155
24 24 24 2 Obligatory charity tax (Zakat) 116 118 95
x x 25 2 Zakat ul-Fitr x x 10
25 25 26 2 Pilgrimage 247 259 235
26 26 27 3 Minor pilgrimage 33 33 32
27 27 28 3 Pilgrims prevented from completing the pilgrimage 17 15 14
28 28 29 3 Penalty of hunting while on pilgrimage 46 46 44
29 29 30 3 Virtues of Madinah 24 24 24
30 30 31 3 Fasting 119 117 111
31 31 32 3 Praying at night in Ramadan 6 6 16
32 32 x x Virtues of the night of Qadr 11 x x
33 33 33 3 Retiring to a mosque for remembrance of Allah 21 21 21
34 34 34 3 Sales and trade 193 192 178
35 35 35 3 Sales in which a price is paid for goods to be delivered later 16 18 20
36 36 x x Shuf'a 3 3 x
37 37 36 3 Hiring 25 26
38 38 37 3 Transferance of a debt from one person to another 3 3
39 39 x x Kafalah 9 9
40 40 38 3 Representation, Authorization, Business by proxy 18 21
41 41 39 3 Agriculture 28 31
42 42 40 3 Distribution of water 31 33
43 43 41 3 Loans, payment of loans, freezing of property, bankruptcy 24 25
44 44 x x Khusoomaat 15 16
45 45 42 3 Lost things picked up by someone 15 14
46 46 43 3 Oppressions 43 44
47 47 44 3 Partnership 22 25
48 48 45 3 Mortgaging 8 8
49 49 46 3 Manumission of slaves 42 43
50 50 x x Makaatib 6 6
51 51 47 3 Gifts 69 71
52 52 48 3 Witnesses 62 53
53 53 49 3 Peacemaking 20 21
54 54 50 3 Conditions 24 27
55 55 51 4 Wills and testaments 45 44
56 56 52 4 Fighting for the cause of Allah (jihaad) 311 309
57 57 53 4 One-fifth of booty to the cause of Allah 63 65
58 58 x x Jizyah and mawaada'ah 30 34
59 59 54 4 Beginning of creation 137 136
60 60 55 4 Prophets 156 163
61 61 56 4 Virtues and merits of the prophet and his companions / merits of sunnah 152 160
62 62 57 5 Companions of the prophet 136 127
63 63 58 5 Merits of the helpers in Madinah 179 173
64 64 59 5 Military expeditions led by the prophet 510 525
65 65 60 6 Prophetic commentary on the Qur'an 516 504
66 66 61 6 Virtues of the Qur'an 89 85
67 67 62 7 Wedlock, marriage 189 188
68 68 63 7 Divorce 101 100
69 69 64 7 Supporting the family 23 22
70 70 65 7 Food, meals 96 94
71 71 66 7 Sacrifice on occasion of birth 9 8
72 72 67 7 Hunting, slaughtering 71 70
73 73 68 7 Al-Adha festival sacrifice 31 30
74 74 69 7 Drinks 67 65
75 75 70 7 Patients 38 38
76 76 71 7 Medicine 94 105
77 77 72 7 Dress 194 187
78 78 73 8 Good manners and form 266 257
79 79 74 8 Asking permission 78 77
80 80 75 8 Invocations 106 108
81 81 76 8 To make the heart tender 186 182
82 82 77 8 Divine will 27 27
83 83 78 8 Oaths and vows 89 87
84 84 79 8 Expiation for unfulfilled oaths 16 16
85 85 80 8 Laws of inheritance 47 49
86 86 81 8 Limits and punishments set by Allah 31 88
87 x 82 8 Punishments of disbelievers at war with Allah and his apostle / Disbelievers 52 x
88 87 83 9 Blood money 55 57
89 88 84 9 Dealing with apostates 21 22
90 89 85 9 Saying something under compulsion 13 13
91 90 86 9 Tricks 28 29
92 91 87 9 Interpretation of dreams 68 66
93 92 88 9 Afflictions and the end of the world 90 89
94 93 89 9 Judgements 87 89
95 94 90 9 Wishes 22 20
96 95 91 9 Accepting information given by a truthful person 21 22
97 96 92 9 Holding fast to the Qur'an and sunnah 98 103
98 97 93 9 Oneness, uniqueness of Allah 194 193

References

  1. ↑ Muhammad died 632. Bukhari was born 810.
  2. ↑ A.C. Brown, Jonathan (2009). Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Foundations of Islam series). Oneworld Publications. p. 32. ISBN 978-1851686636.
  3. ↑ http://www.australianislamiclibrary.org/sahih-bukhari.html
  4. ↑ http://al-islamic.net/hadith/bukhari
  5. ↑ https://sunnah.com/bukhari/97
  6. ↑ http://al-islamic.net/hadith/bukhari/98
  7. ↑ https://www.sahih-bukhari.com/Pages/Bukhari_2_20.php
  8. ↑ https://sunnah.com/bukhari
  9. ↑ http://al-islamic.net/hadith/bukhari
  10. ↑ The 98 version is from the web al-islamic.net, the 97 version from sunnah.com and the 93 version from sahih-bukhari.com
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