A Review of the Book “Criticisms and Doubts of the Imami Shia Against Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, and Rejecting Them”

The book “Criticisms and Doubts of the Imami Shia Against Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Rejecting them” authored by Dr. ‘Ādil ‘Azzāzī has recently been published in four volumes and nearly two thousand five hundred pages in Cairo, Egypt. This book is the author's doctoral dissertation in the Faculty of Hadith Sciences of Al-Azhar University, Egypt, which was defended with honors. The central theme of this book is the response to the criticisms of Shia against Bukhārī's al-Jāmi al- Ṣaḥīḥ book, which has been published in the contemporary century by Shia writers, especially of Iranian origin, in criticizing and evaluating al-Jāmi al- Ṣaḥīḥ book and its author. Some of these criticisms refer to Bukhārī's personality and another type refers to the content of hadiths in al-Jāmi al- Ṣaḥīḥ. The main issue of this article is the critical analysis of Bukhārī's recognition chapter from the first volume of this book, which has criticized the content of this chapter and the author's approach in compiling it with a pathological approach. The findings of this article prove that the myth-making approach of Bukhārī is evident in Dr. ‘Azzāzī's book, and his claims in Bukhārī's translation face serious historical challenges and criticisms. The critical analysis of the author of the article is based on a specific theoretical framework in criticizing the Muslim heritage, which is explained in the first part of the article. The first part is dedicated to the criticism of al-Jāmi al- Ṣaḥīḥ in the struggle of criticism and defense of the intellectual currents of the contemporary century. In the second part, the approach of mythology in Bukhārī's description is analyzed. In the third part of the myth of “Bukhārī; Amir al-Mu’mīnīn Fi Hadith" has been analyzed and criticized.