Imam al-Bukhari applied extraordinary criteria to narrator criticism and text comparison, producing Sahih al-Bukhari, held by Sunni scholarship as the most authoritative book after the Quran. His work anchors how hadith authenticity is understood.
Generations of jurists and hadith specialists built on his collection; Fath al-Bari by Ibn Hajar is the classic supercommentary on it.
Hadith and the scholarly tradition
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