" For 10 points, name this Uzbek-born scholar whose namesake book is considered the most trustworthy collection of hadith.
According to one story, this scholar was born with a blindness that was cured a ter Ibrahim appeared to his mother in a dream. He was exiled from his hometown for refusing to provide private lessons to the governor's children. The biographies of this man are 送lled with accounts of his prodigious memory, such as an incident in which he recited sixteen days worth of material a ter being chided for not taking notes. This man pioneered the use of categories like maudu and hasan. His technique di鴁fered from that of his greatest student Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj in that he required evidence that two people had met and not just evidence that they had lived at the same time. This man's masterpiece, which is divided into 93 chapters and sometimes called Al-Jami al-Sahih, was composed by selecting from 600,000 stories and sayings of Muhammad according to the trustworthiness of their "isnads." For 10 points, name this Uzbek-born scholar whose namesake book is considered the most trustworthy collection of hadith.
According to one story, this scholar was born with a blindness that was cured a ter Ibrahim appeared to his mother in a dream.
Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari