Muhammad al-Bukhari

Born

July 19, 810

Died

January 1, 870 (aged 59)

Known as

muhaddith, poet, ulema, Islamic jurist, historian, theologian

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī, commonly known as al-Bukhārī, was a 9th-century Muslim muhaddith and one of the foremost authorities on hadith, widely regarded as the most important hadith scholar in the history of Sunni Islam.

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