by Imām al-Bukhārī
Tarikh Kabir & Tarikh Saghir are biographical dictionaries compiled by Imam al-Bukhari in the 256 AH. These comprehensive works document approximately 12,000 hadith transmitters, critically evaluating their reliability—a methodology that later underpinned his renowned Sahih collection. Composed primarily in Khurāsān and Baghdad, these texts remain pivotal for understanding the chain-of-transmission in Islamic hadith scholarship.
