According to Islamic tradition, this hadith collection was compiled over the course of 16 years by al-Bukhārī, a native of Bukhara in modern-day Uzbekistan (810-870 AD). It is suggested that Bukhari was an early advocate of investigating chains of narration (isnad) to establish the genuineness of a report, and he supposedly investigated 600,000 hadith reports, of which only 7,397 were accepted as authentic. Partly owing to his proximity to the time of Muhammad (d.632 AD) and the care with which he gathered reports, Bukhari's collection is seen by a large majority of Muslims as the greatest of all hadith collections. As well as being foremost among the books of the Sunni canon (Kutub al-Sittah, 'the six books'), this collection is one of only two given the honorific descriptor, 'sahih' (authentic).
Each collection of Hadith are indexed under various different reference systems. Below are links according to the 'In-Book' reference system, see also 'DarusSalam' and 'USC-MSA'.