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Posted: 15 Feb 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:

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Let’s sidetrack here and do a simple calculation. Bukhari, in his introduction, uses a first-class sales pitch according to the standards of the medieval era. He, or the later editors and promoters of his collection, try hard to depict the portrait of a devout, genius, scrupulous, and steadfast scholar. Although his Christian counterpart, St. Paul, was more articulate and more cunning in his self-promotion; but history is a witness that Bukhari has done a similarly good job in another market. In the introduction of the collection called Bukhari, we learn that this celebrated hadith collector endures long trips, occasionally from one country to another, just to collect one hadith. We also learn that he was very careful in his evaluation of the chain of narrators; he was so pious, he took ablution and prayed before recording each of his hadiths. We might be surprised to see, in the same section of this solemn promotional introduction, some funny animated clips too. We learn that some of the prophet’s companions witnessed a group of monkeys stoning an adulterer monkey in the jungle (perhaps that provided some inspiration and imagination for later hadiths narrations involving the story of the holy hungry goat). Well, we were going to do some calculations… Let’s assume that Bukhari told us the truth regarding the 600,000 hadiths he listened to and evaluated. Let’s also be extremely generous to Bukhari and assume that on average it took him only one hour to go, interview, and evaluate each of the 600,000 hadiths which he would later trash 99% of them. Let’s assume that he started wondering around, seeking for hadith narrators, listening to them, and evaluating the chain of narrators from dawn until the dark of the night. Let’s assume that all his days were summer days, so that he worked ten hours a day without a break. Since we do not have any claim by Bukhari or another “holy” person regarding Bukhari’s ability to inflate time, create time within time, or slow down the time, we assume he worked like a super human being limited by the natural law. With these assumptions, Bukhari who lived 60 years, between 810-870 AC, would need 60,000 days, or 164 years. In other words, he would need more than a hundred years to be able to do what he was bragging about.

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