Ibn ‘Adiyy said, “I heard a number of Shaykhs relating that when Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel came to Baghdaad and the companions of hadeeth heard of him, they gathered together and (as a test) they took a hundred hadeeth and they mixed up their chains of narrations and texts, giving the text of one the chain of narration of another, and the chain of narration of one a different text. Then they divided them between ten people for them to ask al-Bukhaaree about them in the gathering. So the people gathered, and one of them began by asking al-Bukhaaree about one of his ten hadeeth, so he replied, ‘I do not know it,’ and he asked him about another and he said, ‘I do not know it,’ this continued until he completed the ten. So, the people of knowledge began looking at one another and saying, ‘The man understands well.’ But the people who did not know thought that al-Bukhaaree was incapable. Then the second began and did the same as the first and al-Bukhaaree kept saying, ‘I do not know it.’ Then the third and so on until all ten
had asked him, and he did not say anything more than, ‘I do not know it.’
Then when he knew that they had finished he turned to the first
of them and said, ‘As for your first hadeeth then it should be
like this, and the second like this, and the third like this...’ right
up to the tenth, restoring each text to its true chain of
narration. He did the same with all of the others, so the people
attested to his memorization.”
of them and said, ‘As for your first hadeeth then it should be
like this, and the second like this, and the third like this...’ right
up to the tenth, restoring each text to its true chain of
narration. He did the same with all of the others, so the people
attested to his memorization.”
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