Primary source
Sahih al-Bukhari
A major Sunni hadith collection presented by Sunnah.com.
- Author
- Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari
- Publisher
- Sunnah.com
- Tradition
- Sunni Islam
- Accessed
- 2026-06-16
Where this source is used
- Islam gives assurance through deeds and mercyIslam grounds hope in mercy, but for ordinary believers it stops short of certainty. Christians ground assurance in what they believe God has already done in Jesus' death.
- Muhammad is the best exampleIslam offers Muhammad as a pattern for all ages, which makes his example a fair question. Christians compare him with Jesus, not with modern Western values.
- The Bible is corruptedThe manuscripts differ in small ways, but the Gospel Christians held in Muhammad's day, which the Qur'an tells them to judge by, survives and can be read today.
- The Qur'an is inimitableThe Qur'an's eloquence is real, but beauty is judged by taste and language, not truth. The Christian claim rests instead on a public event open to historical inquiry.
- The reliability of the BibleVariants in the manuscripts are real and openly catalogued. They show a text copied many times in many places, which is why its earliest wording can be recovered.