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Irshād al-sārī ilá sharḥ al-Bukhārī (Guidance for the benighted venturer towards explanation of the Sahih of al-Bukhari) is a commentary in ten volumes on the authoritative hadith collection of al-Bukhari. The commentary is by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Qastallani, a prolific Egyptian scholar and preacher of the 15th and early 16th centuries. In it the author explains the terminology of hadith studies as well as discusses topics in al-Bukhari’s text that cover the entire range of subjects, from faith itself to relations between the sexes. Muhammad ibn Ismaʻil al-Bukhari (810 ...