Prophet Mohammad, the last messenger who Allah entrusted with the Quran, serves as the ideal role model that all mankind should emulate and be like to reach our highest level of perfection. Weather it was his generosity or his humbleness, his honesty or justness, nobody could match the prophets’ flawless character. His character is displayed through his actions, and those actions are compiled into hadiths recorded by numerous historians. The most famous of those, Persian Muslim scholar Muhammad ibn Is mail al-Bukhari, is widely known as the main source of the prophets’ hadiths and his compilation is regarded as the most authentic by the Sunni‘s.
Persian scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari was born on 810 AD in Bukhara,Persia. His mission which began at the young age of 16, was to strengthen his faith and knowledge in hadiths of the prophets. His travels lasted 16 years, and within that time period he collected numerous hadiths which he compiled into one book, al-Jami' al-Sahih. Included are 7,275 hadiths of the prophet, ranging from everything from how the prophet prayed to how he cleaned himself. He settled in Nashipour in 864 Ad where he met Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj who became his student and himself composed a compilation of hadiths that are only second to Bukharis. Due to political problems, Bukhari was forced to move to Khartank where he died on 870 ad. Bukharis legacy was that of a great Islamic scholar, and his work lives on even to this day.
Bukharis hadiths focus in on the daily life of the prophet and how he carried himself in public and in his private life. The prophets’ sunna, or his practices recorded in the Bukhari, demonstrate his perfect character. The prophet as previously stated, is the best of role models and in the text, Bukhari clearly distinguishes his thesis with hadiths of the prophet. In the hadiths he appeals using both reason and emotion to get his point across. For example, in one hadith, a woman comes to the prophet and asks if...