This is a stricter criterion than that set by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. They should also expressly state that they obtained the narrative from these authorities.

Second, it should be verifiable that narrators have met with their source persons. First, the lifetime of a narrator should overlap with the lifetime of the authority from whom he narrates. Muhammad al-Bukhari has followed two principal criteria for selecting sound narratives. Quality and soundness of the chain of narrators of the selected ahādīth.I asked some dream interpreters, who said to me, ‘You will protect him from lies.’ This is what compelled me to produce the Sahih.' Īmin Ahsan Islahi, the Islamic scholar, has listed three outstanding qualities of Sahih al-Bukhari: In my hand was a fan with which I was protecting him. 'We were with Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh who said, ‘If only you would compile a book of only authentic narrations of the Prophet.’ This suggestion remained in my heart so I began compiling the Sahih.' Bukhari also said, 'I saw the Prophet in a dream and it was as if I was standing in front of him. What further strengthened his resolve was something his teacher, hadith scholar Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Hanthalee – better known as Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh – had told him. This aroused his interest in compiling hadith whose authenticity was beyond doubt. At the time when Bukhari saw the earlier works and conveyed them, he found them, in their presentation, combining between what would be considered sahih (correct) and hasan (good) and that many of them included daʻīf (weak) hadith. Experts, in general, have estimated the number of full- isnad narration at 7,397, and without considerations to repetitions or different versions of the same report, the number of Prophetic traditions reduces to approximately 2,602. Sources differ on the exact number of hadiths in Bukhari's Sahih, depending on whether a hadith is defined as a Prophetic tradition or a narration of that tradition. It is reported that al-Bukhari devoted 16 years to sifting the hadiths he included in his Sahih from a collection of nearly 600,000 narrations. Al-Bukhari traveled widely throughout the Abbasid Caliphate from the age of 16, collecting those traditions he thought trustworthy.

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