Al-Bukhari’s Sources
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35516/jjha.v17i3.434Keywords:
Sahih al-Bukhari, ta‘līq, ijāzah, wajādah, samā‘a, ‘arḍ wa-munāwalah.Abstract
The current study tackles the sources that al-Bukhari relied on while writing his Sahih. These sources consisted of books of hadith, interpretation, language, jurisprudence, and history, which were widespread and common in the metropolises of the Islamic world in the second and third centuries AH. This idea counters the prevailing inherited idea that al-Bukhari relied on oral tradition only while writing the Sahih. The study concluded that al-Bukhari relied on a comprehensive inheritance: written and oral, using methods of transmitting and carrying hadith, such as “ijāzah”, “wajādah”, “samā‘a” and “arḍ wa-munāwalah”. Al-Bukhari relied on a collection of works such as “Al-Muwatta” by Malik ibn Anas and “Al-Musannaf” by Abu Bakr ‘Abd Allah ibn Abi Shaybah, in addition to linguistic and jurisprudential works such as the works of Abu ‘Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Salam and al-Shafi‘i, and other sources in Tafsir and history. The study also revealed a new approach used by al-Bukhari grounded on dropping men from the chain of transmitters which was later known as Mu‘allaqat al-Bukhari, which in their entirety constituted about one fifth of the Sahih.
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