صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari — Hadith 3231
Compiled by Imam al-Bukhari
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَقِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَنْ أَكْرَمُ النَّاسِ قَالَ أَتْقَاهُمْ قَالُوا لَيْسَ عَنْ هَذَا نَسْأَلُكَ قَالَ فَيُوسُفُ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ
English Translation
Telah bercerita kepada kami [Muhammad bin Basysyar] telah bercerita kepada kami [Yahya bin Sa'id] dari ['Ubaidullah] berkata, telah bercerita kepadaku [Sa'id bin Abu Sa'id] dari [bapaknya] dari [Abu Hurairah radliallahu 'anhu] berkata; "Ditanyakan kepada Rasulullah Shallallhu 'alaihi wa salam: "Wahai Rasulullah, siapakah manusia yang paling mulia?". Beliau Shallallhu 'alaihi wa salam menjawab: "Yang paling taqwa di antara mereka". Mereka berkata; "Bukan itu yang kami maksud". Beliau menjawab: "Kalau begitu, Yusuf, Nabiyullah".
About Sahih al-Bukhari
Born
194 AH / 810 CE — Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Died
256 AH / 870 CE
Imam al-Bukhari dedicated 16 years to compiling Sahih al-Bukhari, selecting approximately 7,275 hadiths from over 600,000 narrations he examined. His strict conditions for accepting a hadith — requiring narrator continuity, reliable memory, and confirmed meeting between narrators — make it the most rigorously authenticated hadith collection in Islamic scholarship.
Imam al-Bukhari would perform ghusl and pray two rak'ahs before recording each hadith. Sahih al-Bukhari is universally regarded as the most authentic book after the Quran.
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