Fath Al-Bari with explanation of Sahih Al-Bukhari

Author's name: Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

One of Ibn Hajar's most valuable books, the most profound in knowledge, and the most beloved by Muslims was his commentary on the Sahih al-Bukhari (256 AH), which Muslims agreed was the most authentic book after the Book of Allah. He called it Fath al-Bari bi Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari, which is rightfully considered one of the most respected collections of Islam and its important sources of knowledge. No student of knowledge or jurist, not even a mufti or mujtahid can do without it. The commentary is a huge and magnificent book. He took more than twenty-five years to compile, compose, dictate, and revise, beginning at the beginning of 817 AH, when he was 44 years old. He finished it at the beginning of Rajab 842 AH, collecting in it the commentaries of those who had preceded him on Sahih al-Bukhari, expanding on the clarification of the Sahih and clarifying its problems, narrating the issues of consensus, and expanding on the disagreement in jurisprudence, authentication, weakening, language, and readings, with clear care in the accuracy of the Sahih. Sahih al-Bukhari and its narrations, highlighting the differences in them, with many benefits, rare pearls, and useful digressions... etc. until the hafiz’s resources in it increased to (1200) books from the works of those who came before him.