Nu’aym ibn Hammaad said, “Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel (Al-Bukhari) is the Faqeeh of the Ummah.”
Ishaaq ibn Raahawaih said, “Write narrations from this young man (meaning al-Bukhari), because if he had lived in the time of al-Hasan the people would have had need of him due to his knowledge of hadeeth and its understanding.”
Aboo Bakr ibn Abee Shaybah and Muhammad ibn Abdullaah ibn Numayr both said, “We have not seen anyone like Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel.”
Ahmad ibn Hanbal said, “Khuraasaan has not brought out the like of Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel.”
Aboo ‘Ammaar al-Husayn ibn Huraith praised al- Bukhaaree and said, “I am not aware that I have seen anyone the like of him, it is as if he had been created solely for the hadeeth.”
Muhammad ibn Bashshaar said, “The great memorizers of the world are four: Aboo Zur’ahi in Rayy, ad-Daarirnee in Samarqand, Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel in Bukhaaraa and Muslim in Neesaaboor.”
Ibn Khuzaymah said, “I have not seen under the sky anyone having more knowledge of and better memorization of the hadeeth of Allaah’s Messenger (swallallahu alayhi wasallam) than Muhammad ibn Isrnaa’eel.”
Abul-Azhar said, “There were four hundred students of hadeeth in Samarqand and they came together for a week and hoped to find Muhammad ibn Ismaa‘eel make a mistake. So they entered the chains of narration of Shaam upon those of ‘Iraaq, and chains of Yemen upon those of Makkah and al-Madeenah, but they could not find a single mistake from him in any chain of narration or any text.”
Source: The creed of the Imam of Hadeeth Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismaa'eel ( Rahimahullah)
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