1. I hear the tidings of the Messenger bringing you glad tidings
You have succeeded in this world and triumphed in the next

2. Ears adorned with a string of gems
The hearts wish they could wear it around their necks

3. Your gems have adorned noble souls
Thus honoring them and raising their worth

4. What is religion but what the great ones have narrated
They conveyed to us reports of good tiding

5. And presented the Prophet's hadiths protected
From falsity and distortion, deserving thanks

6. Indeed al-Bukhari the Imam compiled
In his compilation gems and pearls

7. A bejeweled crown atop the Islamic nation
It illuminated a sun and ignited a full moon

8. An ocean of knowledge giving forth pearls not pebbles
So extract from it pearls and make of it a vast sea

9. His books are a light and a light for the observer
They have shone radiantly and yielded ripe fruit

10. He followed the chosen Prophet’s way, compiling his scattered traces
Summarizing them concisely and refining them utterly

11. How much his protected soul strove
Traversing land and sea in diligence

12. From Iraq to Yemen
To Hejaz and on to Egypt

13. Until he compiled in his Sahih the authentic
Fulfilling the greatest of verses

14. A book for him part of Ahmad’s law
A purification transcending the two heights and the eagle