صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari — Hadith 3472
Compiled by Imam al-Bukhari
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنْ قَيْسٍ أَنَّ بِلَالًا قَالَلِأَبِي بَكْرٍ إِنْ كُنْتَ إِنَّمَا اشْتَرَيْتَنِي لِنَفْسِكَ فَأَمْسِكْنِي وَإِنْ كُنْتَ إِنَّمَا اشْتَرَيْتَنِي لِلَّهِ فَدَعْنِي وَعَمَلَ اللَّهِ
English Translation
Telah bercerita kepada kami [Ibnu Numair] dari [Muhammad bin 'Ubaid] telah bercerita kepada kami [Isma'il] dari [Qais] bahwa [Bilal] berkata kepada Abu Bakr; "Jika kamu dhulu membebaskan aku untuk kepentingan dirimu sediri maka tahanlah aku (untuk mengikuti kemauanmu), namun seandainya kamu membebaskan aku karena Allah, maka biarkanlah aku pergi untuk beramal karena Allah".
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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