we know that bukhari was a biased man, and he would go to any extent to protect his beliefs, even at the cost of hiding the truth.

let us see another example. we know that samura bin jundab was one of the sheikhs of bukhari, that is, he took ahadeeth having him sanad. and those ahadeeth are about 13 in number in bukhari, and can be located in chapters of mensis, salat, bayo’o, tafsir, al-atama, adab etc. let me share one hadeeth with you

Volume 6, Book 60, Number 196:

Narrated Samura bin Jundab:

Allah’s Apostle said, “Tonight two (visitors) came to me (in my dream) and took me to a town built with gold bricks and silver bricks. There we met men who, half of their bodies, look like the most-handsome human beings you have ever seen, and the other half, the ugliest human beings you have ever seen. Those two visitors said to those men, ‘Go and dip yourselves in that river. So they dipped themselves therein and then came to us, their ugliness having disappeared and they were in the most-handsome shape. The visitors said, ‘The first is the Garden of Eden and that is your dwelling place.’ Then they added, ‘As for those people who were half ugly and half handsome, they were those who mixed good deeds and bad deeds, but Allah forgave them.”

but one should keep in mind that this guy was known for killing people. it is present in tibri that he killed many people though they testified the oneness of allah and mohammad being his prophet.

and it is not enough,

he was known to have sold wine.

we find in masnad imam ahmad bin hanbal

165 حدثنا سفيان، عن عمرو، عن طاوس، عن ابن عباس، ذكر لعمر أن سمرة، وقال، مرة بلغ عمر رضي الله عنه أن سمرة باع خمرا قال قاتل الله سمرة إن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لعن الله اليهود حرمت عليهم الشحوم فجملوها فباعوها‏.‏

http://www.al-eman.com/hadeeth/viewchp.asp?BID=3&CID=3#s1

this hadeeth can also be located in sahih muslim

we find

Book 010, Number 3842:

Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) reported: This news reached ‘Umar that Samura had sold wine, whereupon he said: May Allah destroy Samura; does he not know that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:” Let there be the curse of Allah upon the Jews that fat was declared forbidden for them, but they melted it and then sold it”?

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/muslim/010.smt.html

this hadeeth is with a very good chain. so bukhari also included this in his sahih, but he was his sheikh, so what would he do, check for yourself.

Volume 3, Book 34, Number 426:

Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:

Once ‘Umar was informed that a certain man sold alcohol. ‘Umar said, “May Allah curse him! Doesn’t he know that Allah’s Apostle said, ‘May Allah curse the Jews, for Allah had forbidden them to eat the fat of animals but they melted it and sold it.”

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/034.sbt.html

great mr bukhari…………………………….