Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mughira ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari al-Ju'fi is the author of [[work/sahih-al-bukhari|al-Jami' al-Sahih]] 1 2. Ibn al-Nadim counts him among the trustworthy hadith scholars 3. He was born in Shawwal 194 AH and grew up an orphan, and he first heard hadith in 205 AH 4. He set out in 210 AH, made the pilgrimage with his mother and his brother, and then stayed behind to seek hadith 4. He travelled the lands from Khurasan to Egypt, and said that he had heard from more than a thousand shaykhs 2.
The Encyclopaedia of Islam calls the Sahih his most famous work; he is reported to have said that he drew it out of some six hundred thousand hadiths and composed it over sixteen years 2 4. Ibn al-Nadim also lists among his books "al-Tarikh al-Kabir", "al-Tarikh al-Saghir", "al-Tarikh al-Awsat", "al-Asma' wa al-Kuna" and "al-Du'afa'" 3. In his last years he met opposition at Nishapur from Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli, which al-Subki and the Encyclopaedia put down to envy, and he left for Bukhara 2 4. He was then expelled from it and settled at Khartank, a village of Samarkand, where he died on the night of the Fitr festival, the first night of Shawwal 256 AH 2 4. He had reached sixty-two years less some nights 5. The Encyclopaedia says that in its author's time the Sahih was counted as one book among others, and that it then came to stand with [[work/sahih-muslim|Muslim's Sahih]] at the head of the collections of Sunni hadith 6.
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