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al-Bukhari

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[al-boo-kahr-ee, al-boo-khahr-ee] / ˌæl bʊˈkɑr i, ˌæl bʊˈxɑr i /

noun

  1. Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil a.d. 810–870, a collector of the Hadith.


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Sunni Muslims consider hadiths collected by al-Bukhari, Abu Dawud, and Ibn Majah among the most authentic guides to behavior.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The Saudi ambassador to Lebanon, Waleed al-Bukhari, praised the Lebanese authorities’ efforts “to uncover the facts and bring the perpetrators to justice” in a post on Twitter.

From Reuters • Jul. 10, 2022

The province wasn’t part of China until the thirteenth century, when Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar al-Bukhari, a Central Asian Muslim who served the imperial court, brought it into the fold.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 6, 2016