Bukhari penned this manuscript at the age of 18, gathering the names and life stories of numerous individuals who transmitted hadith from the era of the Companions up to his contemporary period. The comprehensive biographical entries amount to nearly 40 thousand, encompassing both male and female narrators, as well as those deemed reliable or unreliable. It's worth noting that al-Hakim identified the weak narrators among this total, and they numbered no more than 126 individuals.
Bukhari penned this manuscript at the age of 18, gathering the names and life stories of numerous individuals who transmitted hadith from the era of the Companions up to his contemporary period. The comprehensive biographical entries amount to nearly 40 thousand, encompassing both male and female narrators, as well as those deemed reliable or unreliable. It's worth noting that al-Hakim identified the weak narrators among this total, and they numbered no more than 126 individuals.
Bukhari penned this manuscript at the age of 18, gathering the names and life stories of numerous individuals who transmitted hadith from the era of the Companions up to his contemporary period. The comprehensive biographical entries amount to nearly 40 thousand, encompassing both male and female narrators, as well as those deemed reliable or unreliable. It's worth noting that al-Hakim identified the weak narrators among this total, and they numbered no more than 126 individuals.