2) Selected 500 Hadith from Sahih Bukhari & Muslim - The Message

Sahih Bukhari & Sahih Muslimbeyond the Transoxus (now Turkistan). Schools ofknowledge where people could learn Arabic, the Quran,history, and Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) were spreadthroughout the city. The young boy, Muhammad IbnIsmaa’eel Al-Bukhaari then set out to quench his thirst forknowledge from these sweet springs. Early in his life, heshowed signs of intelligence that surprised everyonearound him. He had a sharp mind, an attentive heart, anamazing memory, and an incredible ability to memorize.Before he was ten, he had memorized the whole Quran,mastered the Arabic language, covered much of the Fiqh,and memorized many Prophetic narrations. His pious goodmother always encouraged her son and prepared asuitable atmosphere for him to acquire knowledge. WhenAl-Bukhaari finished his studies in the small schools, hiswise mother thought to send him to the well-known studycircles in Bukhaaraa, Samarqand, Bekend, Marw, andNesabor. He became famous among the scholars to thepoint that he used to argue with his professors and evencorrected them sometimes!!The success and physiognomy of Al-Bukhaari didn't endthere. His shaykh and teacher Mohammad Ibn Salaam Al-Bekandy the scholar of Buhaaraa and the scholar ofProphetic narrations across the Transoxus (now Turkistan),used to ask him to revise some of his books and correctedany mistakes he found. Scholars used to wonder inastonishment: "Who was that boy who edits the books ofhis professor?!"Page 170