His Works—

Imam al-Bukhari, may Allah have mercy on him, enriched the Islamic library with numerous valuable and beneficial writings, foremost among them his Jamiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ, the most authentic book ever composed on Prophetic hadith.

Among his other works are: al-Adab al-Mufrad; Rafʿ al-Yadayn fī al-Ṣalāh (Raising the Hands in Prayer); al-Qirāʾah Khalf al-Imām (Recitation Behind the Prayer-Leader); Birr al-Wālidayn (Honoring One’s Parents); al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr, al-Awsat, and al-Ṣaghīr (his large, middle, and concise biographical histories); Khalq Afʿāl al-ʿIbād (The Creation of Human Acts); al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (Weak Narrators); al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr; al-Musnad al-Kabīr; al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr; Kitāb al-Ashribah (The Book of Beverages); Kitāb al-Hibah (The Book of Gifts); Asāmī al-Ṣaḥābah (Names of the Companions), and many other titles besides.