Khatib Baghdadi narrates that, Khaled Ibn Ahmad Dhihli the governor of the town invited him to his palace to quote some hadiths, but Bukhari did not except and said: I will not demean knowledge and deliver it to the doors of the public; if the governor needs knowledge then he should come to the masjid or to my home. This caused the governors rule to become pessimistic towards him, and finally this led to his exile. In a letter, the people of Samarqand invited him to their city. Bukhari expected their invitation and headed off towards Samarqand. Since his home village was on the way to Samarqand, he was invited to visit some of his relatives, and on the night before Thursday, on Eid Al-Fitr of the year 206 Hijri (Lunar Calendar) he passed away and was buried in that same place. Sunnis have said many things about the accomplishments of Bukhari even to the point were some claimed that in the science of hadith there is no one more knowledgeable than Bukhari. “Muslim” has said: I bear witness that none other in this world like him exists. Bukhari rarely narrated hadiths from the Shia Imams (Peace be upon them), directly or indirectly, and in this book, Sahih, he has only narrated twenty-nine hadiths from Imam Ali (Peace be upon him) and only a handful from Imam Hasan Mujtaba (Peace be upon him) and Imam Baqir (Peace be upon him). According to the opinion of researchers, you can not recognize Bukhari as being of one of the four sects of Sunni Muslims or of any other renowned faith; in actuality he was a Fiqhi idealist who would deduce conclusions by his own opinion. Although many followers of schools of thought have tried to introduce him as being a follower of their faith, such as “Sabki” has listed his name amongst the Shaf’ie scholars, and “Qazi Ibd Abi Ya’li” who has listed him under the Hanbali scholars.

Bukhari’s Written Works:

25 books have been recognized as his effects of which the most famous include:

1. The History of Kabir Analyzed by Forty-Thousand Hadith Narrators

2. The History of Saghir

3. Azu’afa Asaghir

4. The book of Alkeni

5. The book of khalq Afal Ul-Ibad (on rejecting the Jahimiyeh Sect)

6. Aladab Ulmufrid Fil Hadith

7. Qazaya Asahabah and Taabi’een and Aqawilhum

8. Commentary of Bukhari

9. Aljameh Asahih (Sahih of Bukhari).

Sahih of Bukhari:

According to Sunnis this book holds significance and credibility. According to the claim of some, the whole Islamic community unanimously agrees that the most accurate book after the Quran is “The Sahih of Bukhari” and after that “The Sahih of Muslim”. However some Sunni scholars have firmly and acutely criticized his narrations, including “Hafez Dar Qutni” who has noted numerous criticisms in the Sahih of Buhkari, which mostly pertain to the chain of transmitters of the hadiths; such as:

1. Hadiths that have transmitted doctrines with two or more chains [or narrators], and one has more transmitters than the other, or instead of listing some of the hadith transmitters, other individuals were listed.

2. Some of the hadith transmistters recorded were known for their sarcasm.

3. He has recorded solitary criticized transmitters' hadiths, (which have not been narrated by any other hadith transmitters other than these)

Some of the criticisms which have been noted by Shia scholars in relation to Bukhari include:

1. Not transmitting hadith from the Shia Imams or their children; even though he lived for quite some time during the time of two of the saint Imams, Imam Hadi and Imam Askari (Peace be upon them), and he only narrated a few hadiths from Imam Ali and Imam Mujtabah and Imam Muhammad Baqir (Peace be upon them). On the contrary hadiths from the Kharijites and Anti-Shiites such as Ukrameh, Umar Ibn Khetab and Urweh (Which even numerous sunni scholars of hadith have rejected them as narrators or tradition), have been noted in Bukhari's chain of linkage. The Shia Imams were not unknown individuals, and their students specially Imam Baqir and Imam Saddiq's (Peace be upon them) were plenty in Iraq and Arabia, yet Bukhari only mentions twenty of the Shia authorities.

2. Not recording hadiths in the respects of the Ahlul-Bait (The progeny of the prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him); although there are hadiths that Sunni and Shia transmitters have recorded from the honorable prophet (Peace and blessing be upon him and his progeny) about the Ahlul-Bait (Peace be upon them) which have been well documented in Sunni hadith books.

3. The presence of non-identified and bogus transmitter in narrated documents and the admission of apocryphal narrations.

4. dismantling and repetition of many traditions

5. Lack of constrain in narrating the words of hadiths, and instead narrating the meaning which is the cause for the interference of his personal misunderstandings and individual judgments in narrations.[1]