مَعْنٌ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
932
Books
120
Teachers
107
Students
113
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·مَعْنٌ
Known As (يُعرف بـ) ·
Kunya (الكنية) ·
Nasab (النسب)
Status / Rank (الرتبة) Sahabi (Companion) · Thiqah Thabt
Born ~ BH (~602 CE) ·
Embraced Islam 7 AH (after the Battle of Khaybar)
Died AH (679 CE) ·
Companion of the Prophet ﷺ —
Biography
"O Allah, fill him with knowledge."
The Prophet ﷺ supplicated for Abu Hurayrah after he complained of forgetting hadith. From that day, Abu Hurayrah said: "I never forgot a hadith after that."
— Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim (multiple chains)This well-attested narration is cited by classical scholars as the divinely-given basis for Abu Hurayrah's extraordinary memory.
Reliability Assessment
صحابي جليل
Distinguished Companion of the Prophet ﷺ — unconditionally trustworthy
Abu Hurayrah is one of the seven most prolific narrators of Hadith. Because of the sheer volume of his narrations — exceeding five thousand — his case received particular attention from classical Hadith critics. The early scholars established his reliability through multiple lines of evidence: his close companionship of the Prophet ﷺ for three years of devoted study, the consistent agreement of his narrations with those of other Sahaba, the prayers of the Prophet ﷺ for his memory (preserved in authentic chains), and the testimony of his contemporaries.
All Hadiths Narrated - 932
Distribution By Collection
The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
130 (14%)Sunan al-Nisa'i al-Kubra for al-Nisa'i - d. Abd al-Ghaffar Suleiman al-Bandari, Syed Kasravi Hassan - Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah - Beirut
114 (12%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
74 (8%)Jami at Tirmidhi
73 (8%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
43 (5%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
42 (5%)Al-Mujtaba from Al-Sunan = Al-Sunan Al-Sughra for Al-Nisa'i - T. Abdel Fattah Abu Ghuddah - N. Islamic Publications Office - Aleppo
28 (3%)Sunan Nasai
28 (3%)Al-Mujtaba (known as Al-Sunan Al-Sughra) for Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research and Information Technology Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
26 (3%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
23 (2%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
21 (2%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
18 (2%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
16 (2%)Sahih Muslim
13 (1%)Al-Musnad Al-Sahih Muslim, summarized by the transfer of justice from justice to the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, Sahih Muslim - A group of investigators - Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
13 (1%)Shama'il Muhammadiyah / Shumail Tirmidhi
12 (1%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
12 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
9 (1%)Sahih Bukhari
9 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - Dr. Mustafa Deeb Al-Bagha is Professor of Hadith and its Sciences at the Faculty of Sharia - University of Damascus - Dar Ibn Katheer, Al-Yamamah - Beirut
9 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
6 (1%)Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
6 (1%)Al-Bukhari's singular literature - T. Ali Abdel-Basit Mazyad - and Ali Abdul-Maqsoud Radwan - Al-Khanji Library - Egypt
6 (1%)Single Literature - T. Essam Musa Hadi - Dar Al-Siddiq - Jubail - Saudi Arabia
6 (1%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
6 (1%)Kitab Al Qadar Al Firyabi
6 (1%)Sunan Darmi
5 (1%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
5 (1%)Al-Sunan Al-Kubra by Al-Bayhaqi, and in its appendage is Al-Jawhar Al-Naqi - T - N Majlis Al-Maarif Al-Maarif - Hyderabad
5 (1%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
5 (1%)Sunan al-Darimi (narrated by al-Bukhari, Muslim, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa’i, Abu Dawud, and Abdullah ibn al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal) - T. Muhammad Ahmad Dahman - Damascus: Bab al-Barid - 1349 - n.
5 (1%)Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
5 (1%)Musnad Al-Imam Al-Darmi - Dr. Marzouq bin Hayas Al Marzouq Al-Zahrani - N (without a publisher) (Printed at the expense of businessman Sheikh Jamaan bin Hassan Al-Zahrani)
5 (1%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
4 (0%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
4 (0%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
4 (0%)Al Kifaya Fi Ailm Al Riwayh Al Khatib Al Baghdadi
4 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
4 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
3 (0%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
3 (0%)Sunan Al-Daraqutni - Checked it out, corrected its text, and commented on it: Shuaib Al-Arnaout, Hassan Abdel-Moneim Shalabi, Abdel-Latif Harzallah, Ahmed Barhoum - from the Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut - Lebanon
3 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana
3 (0%)Bahr al-Fawa’id (famous for Ma’ani al-Akhbar) by al-Kalabadhi - directed by Kamal al-Din Zaki - Dar al-Salam - Cairo
3 (0%)Al Zohod w Al Riqaiq
3 (0%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
3 (0%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
3 (0%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
3 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
3 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
3 (0%)Shuab ul Iman
3 (0%)Musnad Al-Muwatta for Al Jawhari
3 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
3 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
3 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
3 (0%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
2 (0%)Khulq Afeal Al Ebad Al Bukhari
2 (0%)Mukhtsar Qayam Al Lail w Qayam Ramzan w Qayam Al Wittar
2 (0%)Musnad Abi Hanifa Al Haskafi
2 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo
2 (0%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
2 (0%)Musnad Abi Hanifa, Al-Haskafi’s narration - T. Abdul Rahman Hassan Mahmoud - N. Al-Adab - Egypt
2 (0%)People of Faith - T. Mukhtar Ahmed Al-Nadawi, owner of the Salafi House in Bombay - India - n Al-Rushd Library for Publishing and Distribution in Riyadh in cooperation with the Salafi House in Bombay, India
2 (0%)Kitab Al Zohod
2 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
2 (0%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
2 (0%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
2 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
2 (0%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
2 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour Habib al-Rahman al-Azami, Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut.
1 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood
1 (0%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
1 (0%)Musnad e Bazzar
1 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
1 (0%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
1 (0%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
1 (0%)Al Aasaar Abu Yousaf
1 (0%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
1 (0%)Kitab Bar Al Waldain Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Al Eman Ibn Minda
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
1 (0%)Al Bar w Al Salah
1 (0%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
1 (0%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
1 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
1 (0%)Rad Ala Al Jaheem Al Darmi
1 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
1 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
1 (0%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Sifatul Jannah
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
1 (0%)Hadith Zohri
1 (0%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
1 (0%)Al Badah w Al Nihaya
1 (0%)Tareekh Al-Madina
1 (0%)Zakir Al-Quran w Riwayatihim Bazahum Baza
1 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
1 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
1 (0%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Al Harsi
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Ibn Khusro
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
1 (0%)Tafseer Min Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
1 (0%)Interpretation from the Sunnahs of Saeed bin Mansour - an investigator - Dr. Saad bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Hamid - Dar Al-Sumaie for publication and distribution
1 (0%)Sunnah by Ibn Abi Assem - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
1 (0%)The Book of the Sunnah Abi Asim (And with him Shades of Paradise in Takhreej Al-Sunnah by: Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani) - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - The Islamic Office
1 (0%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
1 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
1 (0%)Sahih Mawared al-Thirsin to Zawa'id Ibn Hibban - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - Dar al-Sami'i for Publishing and Distribution, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi - T - N Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
1 (0%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
1 (0%)The Collector of the Statement of Knowledge and His Excellence Al-Qurtubi - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Fawaz Ahmad Zumrli - Al-Rayyan Foundation - Dar Ibn Hazm
1 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
1 (0%)The Collector of the Explanation of Knowledge and His Excellence Al-Qurtubi - T. Mosaad Abdel Hamid Muhammad Al-Saadani - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
1 (0%)Musnad Ibn al-Jaad - T Abd al-Mahdi bin Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Hadi - N Al-Falah Library
1 (0%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
1 (0%)Bahr al-Fawa’id, which is famous for Ma’ani al-Akhbar al-Kilabadhi - Mishkool - T. Muhammad Hassan Ismail - Ahmad Farid al-Mazeidi - Dar al-Kutub al-‘ilmiyyah - Beirut / Lebanon
1 (0%)One hundred omitted hadiths from Sunan al-Nisa'i al-Kubra, printed - T - N
1 (0%)The substantive refinement of Hilyat al-Awliya', by Hafiz Abi Naim al-Asbhani - T - N Dar Taibah for Publishing and Distribution -
1 (0%)The Ten Women of Imam Al-Nisa'i - Third Edition - T. Ali bin Nayef Al-Shahoud - N
1 (0%)Classical Scholar Assessments
Engaging with Skepticism مناقشة الشبهات
A small number of voices — both early and modern — have raised questions about the volume of Abu Hurayrah's narrations. Classical and modern scholars have addressed these systematically. We summarise the key responses here.
Position of the Major Legal Schools
Sunni (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali)
Shi'a (Ja'fari)
Ibadi