Mohammed ibn Ismail abu Abdolah al-Juti al-Bukhari, the outstanding theologian is known in history as Imam al-Bukhari. He was named after the ancient city of Bukhara where he was born in 810. His father died when Mohammed was in his early childhood. AI-Bukhari was brought up by his grandfather who was a servant of the Bukhara emir. He paid much attention to his grandson's spiritual education.

The boy was still only ten years old when he made up his mind to study and collect all the authentic khadiss legends about the sayings and deeds of Mohammed the prophet. Travelling through the different countries of the Khanate, such as Khidjas, Egypt, Iraq, Khorassan and others, he collected and ascertained the authenticity of more than 600,000 khadisses and recorded 200,000 more from his teachers and other spiritual people. Of all these numerous legends he selected only 7400 as "irreproachable", which comprised his code called "Al- Jomui as Sahih", i.e. "The authentic Code" It was while he was still alive that this work was treated as the Great Book Number 2 after the Koran.

The khadisses in "As-Sahih" have been classified according to the stories and not the names of their earliest narrators. The life and teachings of Mohammed is represented in a significantly broader range it also contains the juridical, ethical and medical aspects. Al-Bukhari divided his code into 97 books comprising 3450 chapters the title of each corresponding to the khadisses included.

Imam al-Bukhari is distinguished as a free-thinking scientist, profound explorer of history, religion and legislation. He is also known as an author of the biography code of almost one thousand of the khadiss writers, "At-Tarih al Kabir". In total more than 40,000 names are mentioned in this code. The scholar worked on this biography code over a period of 16 years and according to his own evidence, the title 'The Big history" was not given by accident. Some of his other works have reached us, "At-Tarih al-Sagir" - "Small History", the code of khadisses "Al-adab al-Mufrad" ('The Pearls of Behavior") etc. The insufficiently studied Koran interpretation is also considered to be one of his works.

Lots of the rhapsodical references were given to the creations of our famous compatriot by his contemporaries: 'There are four keen intellects in the world, the one in Bukhara is Imam al-Bukhari. One can hardly find another scientist like him". 'The Book by Imam al-Bukhan is the greatest book in the world, after the Book of Allah himself.

Imam al-Bukhari died in 870 at the Ramadan-Khait night and was buried in the village Hartang near Samarkand. After Uzbekistan became independent in 1991, a memorial complex has been constructed there.

Great restoration work has been carried out for the celebration of Imam al-Bukhari's 1225 anniversary. Lots of guests came to this holy place to honor the memory of the great scientist and theologian.