Imam Bukhari and Sahih (Saheeh Bukhari)

It is also stated that Al-Bukhari said: “It took me sixteen years to draw up the Kitabu’l Sahih. I selected the matter which forms its content from a mass of six hundred thousand Traditions, and I have offered it up to God as a title to His favor. The birth of Al-Bukhari took place after the public prayer of Friday, 13th of Shawwal 194 A.H. (After Hijrah) (July 810 A.D.). But Al-Khatib states in his Kitabul Irshad that it happened on the 12th of the above mentioned month. He died at Khartank on the even of Saturday, the first of Shawwal 256 A.H. September 870 A.C. after the evening prayer and he was buried the following day on the termination of the afternoon prayer Ibn Yunus mentions, in his History of foreigners, that Al-Bukhari came to Ehypt and died there. This is, however, a mistake and the truth is aswe have just stated. Khalid Ibn Ahmed, the governor of Khurasan, banished Al-Bukhari from Bakhara and sent him to Khartank; Khalid them made the pilgrimage, and on arriving Baghdad, he was imprisoned by Al-Muwaffaq, the brother of the Caliph Al-Mu’tamid and died in his imprisonment.