Apparently, the Imam gave his best to put in his book only the hadiths that he thought to be authentic. And according to his conditions, they were. However, he maybe didn't count on the factor of human error and ill intent. He did denounce many hadiths that he suspected to be ill intended, or that contained errors, but there were many that still went into his book that had error.
It is apparent that there are hadiths in his collection that contradict other hadiths from his collection, and there are many that contradict the Qur’an, or some others that contradict reality, but there are historically weak hadiths, that simply contradict the situation.
For example, certain events, narrated by a certain "authentic" proven narator, could not be placed in that certain timeframe mentioned in the hadith itself.
Some, of course, also contradict the character of the Prophet from certain other hadiths about him. We could conclude that the Prophet was a very bipolar person, should we only consider al-Bukhari’s hadiths to be all true.
One can say that only the ones about him being a bad person are true, but that is also eliminated by comparing the “he is good” hadiths with the situation each of those stories about him took place, probability of such certain events, the base of such certain ideas in reality, in the time, in the context of the Qur’an and sometimes seeming desire of the prophet to contradict his own book. Which isn't case.
Conclusion, not all hadiths are true. But furthermore, regardless, that is history, and we're glad to have it. But related to the geography article, it is not important in our spiritual development.
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