Who was Imam al-Bukhari?

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Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari (810–870) was the imam of hadith. He compiled his Sahih in sixteen years from six hundred thousand hadiths, and it became the most authentic book after the Qur'an. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

Who was Imam al-Bukhari?

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas