It is regrettable that we live in an age in which such naïve and absurd questions prop up. How then can we trust a book attributed to its author without there being a manuscript written by him available to us?” 2. He listened to the Sahih from his teacher al-Firabri (d. Ahmad al-Marwazi who was born in the year 301/913 and died in 371/982.
They ask, “If Bukhari did author this book why do we not find its original manuscript in his own handwriting?” They say “The oldest extant copy of Sahih Bukhari goes back to the fourth century after Hijrah i.e. Isma’il) al-Bukhari’s (hereinafter Bukhari) Sahih that he penned down with his own hands. Some of the ‘researchers’ and those known with the honorifics indicating their educational qualifications have framed an ‘important’ question regarding the absence of original manuscript copy of (Muhammad b. which could be considered authentic according to the criteria laid down by him.
How bad he did not give us images from the first copies of the works of al-Bazdawi (d.
Shukurov himself cites works written hundreds of years ago using editions thereof published within last few decades. Although I plan to make a dedicated response to his present article this piece by Sharif Muhammad Jabir, I believe, serves as a principle response to his basic argument. Translator’s Note: While I had considered translating this write-up ever since I read it on Al-Jazeera Blog the immediate impetus has been a disastrous article by one Atabek Shukurov whose work “Hanafi Principles of Testing Hadith” I reviewed back in 2015.