Which scholars contemporary with Imam al-Bukhari declared him trustworthy?
It can be asserted that all who knew Al-Bukhari vouched for his reliability, except for Al-Dhuhli. Among those who attested to his trustworthiness was Imam Al-Nasa'i, who said: "Among all these books, none is better than the book of Muhammad ibn Isma'il." The scholars of have agreed that he was more knowledgeable in this art than Muslim. It was reported that Al-Daraqutni said: "Were it not for Al-Bukhari, Muslim would not have gone or come." Furthermore, Al-Tirmidhi relied on Al-Bukhari's authentication and weakening of Hadith. The people of Baghdad tested him with one hundred Hadith, whose chains of transmission () and texts (mutun) they had inverted, but he restored each chain of transmission to its correct text.
Summary from Ftawy's records · added here
Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
Read the full answer on Ftawyhttps://ftawy.com/en/questions/102502
Where this answer came from
- Source platform
- Ftawy
- Original fatwa ID
- 102502
- Added here
- . This is when the answer was added to El Fatwa, not the fatwa's date.
- Text
- Summary from Ftawy's records, reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
- Read the full ruling
- Read the full answer on Ftawy