有些人认为，一段圣训只有收录在《布哈里圣训集》和《穆斯林圣训集》中才是真实可靠的。还有些人甚至坚持认为，伊斯兰教的全部教义（din）只能在《布哈里圣训集》中找到。

Some people think that a hadith is only authentic if it is in Bukhari and Muslim. Some even insist that the whole din [religion] of Islam is to be found only in Bukhari.

有一次,一位贝都因人来到先知穆罕默德ﷺ那里。他皈依了伊斯兰教,并做了萨拉特(拜功)。他做完萨拉特后祈祷说:“主啊,求你怜悯我和先知穆罕默德ﷺ,不要怜悯其他任何人。”他的想法是:“如果我为所有人祈求怜悯,真主对我的怜悯就会减少。”先知穆罕默德ﷺ对他说:“你把广大的(怜悯)限定了。”真主的怜悯是广大的,我们的宗教知识也是如此。把整个宗教局限在《布哈里圣训集》中,是绝对的无知。按照这种观点,先知穆罕默德ﷺ二十三年的先知生涯就被局限在布哈里的圣训之内,他一生所说所做的一切,都只在布哈里的圣训中,别处再无记载。这就好比说:“遵循整部古兰经太难了,我们只遵循第二十四章吧。”如今若有人询问某项教法,此人便问它是否在第二十四章里。如果有人告诉他:“不,它在第二十一章。”他便说:“哦,我不能接受,因为我只遵循古兰经的第二十四章。”有些人对待圣训的态度正是如此。若某段圣训见于布哈里的圣训集,他们就接受;若不在其中,便加以拒绝。所有圣训学家和学者一致认为,除布哈里和穆斯林的圣训集之外,还有许多可靠的圣训。即便是布哈里伊玛目和穆斯林伊玛目本人,也从未提出过这样的主张。

Once, a bedouin came to the Blessed Prophet (PBUH). He accepted Islam and prayed Salat. Once he completed his Salat, he prayed, “O Allah (PBUH), have mercy on me and the Blessed Prophet (PBUH) and no one else.” His thinking was that, “If I pray for everyone’s mercy, the mercy of Allah (PBUH) on me will decrease.” The Blessed Prophet (PBUH) said to him, “You have confined the vast.”38 The mercy of Allah (PBUH) is vast and so is the knowledge of our din. It is absolute ignorance to confine the whole din into Bukhari. According to this view, twenty three years of the Blessed Prophet’s (PBUH) prophethood is limited to the ahadith of Bukhari, and everything he every said or did in twenty three years is in Bukhari and nowhere else. It is like saying that “it is too difficult to follow the whole Qur’an; let’s just follow the twenty fourth chapter.” Now if someone asks about a ruling, this person asks if it is in the twenty-fourth chapter. If he is told, “No, it is in the twenty-first chapter,” he says, “Oh, I can’t accept that because I only follow the twenty fourth chapter of the Qur’an.” This is the same way some people treat the ahadith. If a hadith is in Bukhari, they accept it; but if it is not, it is rejected. All the hadith masters and scholars are unanimous that there are many authentic ahadith besides the ahadith of Bukhari and Muslim. Even Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim never made any such claim.

相反,他们反对这类激进的主张。伊玛目布哈里说:“我在我的书中只收录了圣训中的真实者,但为了避免书卷过于冗长,也舍弃了许多真实的圣训。”39伊玛目穆斯林写道:“我并没有把全部真实的圣训都放进我的书中。”40因此,哈菲兹·伊本·哈哲尔在《Tadrib al-Rawi》中写道:“伊玛目布哈里和伊玛目穆斯林并没有把所有真实的圣训都收入各自的书中,他们也无意这样做。”41

If anything, they opposed such radical claims. Imam Bukhari said, “I have only put authentic hadith in my book, but also left many authentic hadith for fear of the book becoming too drawn- out.”39 Imam Muslim writes, “I have not put the whole collection of authentic ahadith in my book.”40 This is why Hafiz Ibn Hajar writes in Tadrib al-Rawi, “Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim did not include all the authentic hadith in their books, nor did they intend to do so.”41

不仅如此,伊玛目布哈里为其著作命名为《al-Jami‘ al-Sahih al-Musnad al-Mukhtasar min Umur Rasul Allah (SWTH) wa Ayyamihī》[《真实、连贯的简编圣训集:关于蒙福的先知ﷺ及其时代》]。

Not only that, Imam Bukhari named his book, al-Jami‘ al-Sahih al-Musnad al-Mukhtasar min Umur Rasul Allah (SWTH) wa Ayyamihī [The Authentic and Continuous, Abridged Collection (of ahadith) from the Blessed Prophet (PBUH) and his Days].

“Mukhtasar”（意为“节录本”）一词清楚地表明，这部《布哈里圣训集》是经过删节的，并未涵盖所有真实可靠的圣训。

The word Mukhtasar [abridged] clearly indicates that Bukhari is condensed and does not include the whole gamut of authentic hadith.