عن البخارى

I am a Belgian citizen. 2 years ago, I started a personal path to filter out what is valid from my inherited thoughts and what is not. Since the beginning, I was confronted to Al Bukhari. I first tried to know Al Bukhari himself, his context (history, geography ...) before trying to get my opinion on his work. I Fully agree with you about the invented hadiths ... in what is called "Sahih Al Bukhari". But I also fully disagree when you attack Al bukhari personally and his intent. Maybe you are right may be not. I believe that no one is able to know the intent of an author 1200 years later. It's not a scientific approach and it's a pure speculation. I got a precious critical help from my wife (Historian and Archeologist) and we came to the following conclusion about the work of al bukhari. The approach taken by Al Bukhari is a pure scientific approach: material, method and results. 1. Material: raw and unverified information he started with. An information could be a story, a hadith, a myth or anything reported to him. 2. Method: setup a filter based on his personal criteria (good or not) to filter out the raw collected information. He took an infor => pass it through the filter => keep it if passes the filter OR reject it if not. Nothing to do with religion, believes ... 3. Results: His book, which was named later "Sahih Al Bukhari". This name is actually a good marketing name. In my humble opinion, Al Bukhari's book is a scientific historical and anthropological book, that has the merit of bring to us some information on the society at that time. And this book should be treated as a book. We can be hard on the content but not on the author. As I already said, I fully agree with you and I appreciate a lot you analysis about the "Hadiths" reported in "Sahih Al Bukhari". But I fully disagree on the author personal attack. This is not accepted in a scientific approach and actually has a negative impact on what you try to demonstrate. By attacking him personally on his thought and intent you are actually highlighting this book as a religion book. And you are raising an extreme reaction from those who put this book at the position 2 after Quran. And the debate will definitively shift to emotional debate rather than a scientific debate based on data, results and evidence. We all should respect Al bukhari as author and demonstrate that his book is simply an anthropological/historical book as any ordinary book. Many thanks for all the knowledge you are bringing to us and my best regards,