Sahih Al Bukhari is a collection of sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), also known as the sunnah. The reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds are called ahadith.
Bukhari lived a couple of centuries after the Prophet's death and worked extremely hard to collect his ahadith. Each report in his collection was checked for compatibility with the Qur'an, and the veracity of the chain of reporters had to be painstakingly established.
Bukhari's collection is recognized by the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to be one of the most authentic collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH).
Imam Al Bukhari (full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin al-Mughira al-Ja'fai) was born in 194 A.H. in Bukhara, Uzbekistan and died in 256 A.H.
His collection of hadith is considered second to none. He spent sixteen years compiling it, and ended up with 2,602 hadith (9,082 with repetition). His criteria for acceptance into the collection were amongst the most stringent of all the scholars of ahadith.
Sahih Al Bukhari is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections) of Sunni Islam, compiled by a Muslim scholar Muhammad al-Bukhari. It was completed around 846 CE / 232 AH. Sunni Muslims view this as one of the two most trusted collections of hadith along with Sahih Muslim. The Arabic word sahih translates as authentic or correct. Sahih al-Bukhari, together with Sahih Muslim is known as Sahihayn.
Sahih Al Bukhari contains around 2,600 ahadith without repetitions and 7,563 ahadith with repetitions.[6][citation needed] It is an important book in Islamic literature. It is the first book to only include the ahadith without interpretations of the companions (ra) and their successors. Al-Bukhari is considered to be the most authentic source of Hadith.
Volume 3 has the following books:
Book 27: Umrah
Book 28: Pilgrims Prevented From Hajj
Book 29: Penalty of Hunting while on Pilgrimage
Book 30: Virtues of Madinah
Book 31: Fasting
Book 32: Praying at Night in Ramadan (Taraweeh)
Book 33: Retiring to a Mosque to Remember Allah
Book 34: Sales and Trade
Book 35: Sales in which a Price is paid for Goods to be Delivered Later
Book 36: Hiring
Book 37: Transference of a Debt from One Person to Another (Al-Hawaala)
Book 38: Representation, Authorization, Business by Proxy
Book 39: Agriculture
Book 40: Distribution of Water
Book 41: Loans, Payment of Loans, Freezing of Property, Bankruptcy
Book 42: Lost Things Picked up by Someone (Luqaata)
Book 43: Oppressions
Book 44: Partnership
Book 45: Mortgaging
Book 46: Manumission of Slaves
Book 47: Gifts
Book 48: Witnesses
Book 49: Peacemaking
Book 50: Conditions
