伊本·拉胡韦的故事，即布哈里伊玛目的老师及其记忆天赋的故事，一直与他的名字联系在一起。关于伊本·拉胡韦记忆力的这则故事，在学术界广为流传。 有一次，他在阿卜杜拉·伊本·塔希尔的私人书房里，与另一位学者讨论一些教法问题。两人对某本书的文字存在分歧。伊本·拉胡韦请阿卜杜拉·伊本·塔希尔从其藏书中取出那本书，并将其呈到两位学者面前。 伊本·阿萨基尔在《大马士革史》中记载，在这次分歧之后，伊本·拉胡韦对阿卜杜拉·伊本·塔希尔说：“请翻到这本书的第十一页，第七行，你会发现我所说的内容。”阿卜杜拉·伊本·塔希尔翻到第十一页，发现内容与伊本·拉胡韦所引述的完全一致。此时，阿卜杜拉·伊本·塔希尔深受感动，对伊本·拉胡韦说：“我知道你记住了大量的教法裁决，但你这种前所未有的敏锐记忆力展现，确实让我惊叹不已。”10

The story of Ibn Rahwai, the teacher of Imam Bukhari, and his gift of memory is a story that has stuck to his name. The story about the memory of Ibn Rahwai is widely narrated in scholarly circles. Once he was discussing some juridical issues with another scholar in the private chambers of ‘Abd Allah ibn Tahir. They disagreed on the text of a certain book. Ibn Rahwai asked ‘Abd Allah ibn Tahir to have the book checked out from his library. The book was brought before the two scholars. Ibn Asakir writes in The History of Damascus that after this disagreement, Ibn Rahwai said to ‘Abd Allah ibn Tahir, “Open to the eleventh page of the book, on the seventh line you will find what I have been saying.” ‘Abd Allah ibnTahir flipped to the eleventh page and found it exactly as Ibn Rahwai had quoted. At this point, ‘Abd Allah ibn Tahir rose to the occasion and said to Ibn Rahwai, “I knew you had a lot of Shari‘a rulings put to memory, but this unprecedented revelation of your sharp memory has indeed left me wonderstruck.”10

这一事件无疑表明了伊本·拉胡维记忆力的敏锐，但难道我们不是在几乎每一个地区、城市和乡村都能找到能背诵《古兰经》、并能即刻指出经文位置的哈菲兹吗？事实是，在学者之中，伊本·拉胡维并非唯一一位能背诵先知穆罕默德ﷺ圣训的人。

This incident leaves no doubt about the sharpness of Ibn Rahwai’s memory, but is it not true that we find huffaz in almost every area, city and village who recite ayas of the Qur’an and can instantly locate its place in the Qur’an? The reality is that Ibn Rahwai is not the only example amongst the scholars who memorized ahadith of the Blessed Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.