Muhammad al-Bukhari - Scholar (البخاري)
al-Bukhārī (born July 19, 810, Bukhara, Central Asia [now in Uzbekistan]—died August 31, 870, Khartank, near Samarkand) was one of the greatest Muslim compilers and scholars of Hadith (the recorded corpus of the sayings and acts of the Prophet Muhammad). His chief work is accepted by Sunni Muslims—i.e., those following the majority tradition—as second only to the Qurʾān as both a source of religious law and a sacred work.