Imam al-Bukhari's Sahih al-Bukhari is considered one of the most comprehensive and authentic collections of Hadith in Sunni Islam.

Imam al-Bukhari was a Persian Islamic scholar from Bukhara, present day Uzbekistan. born in 194 AH (810 AD). He expressed an interest in hadith from a young age and was taught by Imam Malik ibn Anas, among other notable scholars, in his early years before travelling to Mecca for Hajj and pursuing a further education there before exploring the wider Islamic world. Hadith are collections of reports of the actions, words and historical encounters of the Prophet Muhammad, and Imam al-Bukhari travelled the wide Islamic world to collect these accounts and reference them against existing textual material to compile his own informed understanding of hadith, which has become widely accepted by the Sunni community to be the most authentic and comprehensive collection of hadith to date.

The manuscript is copied on fine thick Damascan buff paper of the highest quality, and although the script here is of an informal cursive nature, the hand is a steady one. This volume would have been part of a larger series comprising the entirety of Al-Bukhari's hadith collections and probably copied for personal use or for study within a wider mosque or similar establishment for Islamic study.

Early manuscript copies are seldom accessible on the open market.

Single volume, decorated manuscript on wove paper, in Arabic, 202 leaves plus one later endleaf, 215 x 165 mm; single column, 15 lines informal black naskh, important sections and words in red, catch-words throughout, later ink annotations and marginalia throughout, some light staining and occasional smudges to ink, overall clean and presentable condition; housed in later (eighteenth-century) leather backed boards, edges and spine repaired, covers and boards worn and soiled.