Pakistani media on imam bukhari biography

It was in the second century Hijrah when most of the Sahaba who had learned Islam from the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) directly were diminishing one after another. The last of Prophet's companions passed away in 110 A.H.

Subsequently a possibility of misquoting the Prophet (peace be upon him) by some people with vested interest was quite apparent. So it was essential to collect and authenticate true Hadiths without sponsorship of any ruling authority, regional or national.

It was a gigantic work to collect all the prevailing statements and to classify them into the relevant categories, as authentic, good, poor and false.
This was a great task, which Imam Bukhari, a non-Arab from Khorasan, shouldered.

Pakistani media on imam bukhari biography in urdu

He spent 16 years in searching, collecting and refining the material of Hadith. Not only this, he fixed the most rigid rules to evaluate and authenticate any circulating Hadith. Thus he is known as the Founder of Hadith science.

The rest of his life was spent in teaching and propag