My hero is Mukhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, who was a Islamic scholar. Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil al-Bukhari al-Juʿfi was born on Friday, 21 July 810 in the city of Bukhara in Greater Khorasan

MY HERO
My hero is Mukhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, who was a Islamic scholar.Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil al-Bukhari al-Juʿfi was born on Friday, 21 July 810 in the city of Bukhara in Greater Khorasan(in present-day Uzbekistan).At the age of sixteen, he, together with his brother and widowed mother, made the pilgrimage to Mecca. From there he made a series of travels in order to increase his knowledge of hadith. He went through all the important centres of Islamic learning of his time, talked to scholars and exchanged information on hadith. It is said that he heard from over 1,000 men, and learned over 600,000 traditions.

After sixteen years absence, he returned to Bukhara, and there he drew up his al-Jami' al-Sahih, a collection of 7,275 tested traditions, arranged in chapters so as to afford a basis for a complete system of jurisprudence without the use of speculative law.

His book is highly regarded among Sunni Muslims, and considered the most authentic collection of hadith, even ahead of the Muwatta Imam Malik and Sahih Muslim of Bukhari's student Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. Most Sunni scholars consider it second only to the Quran in terms of authenticity.
In the year 864/250, he settled in Nishapur. It was in Nishapur that he met Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. He would be considered his student, and eventually collector and organiser of hadith collection Sahih Muslim which is considered second only to that of al-Bukhari. Political problems led him to move to Khartank, a village near Samarkand where he died in the year 870/256.