مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى،
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
6,049
Books
156
Teachers
559
Students
384
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى،
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 - 6,049
Distribution By Collection
Musnad e Bazzar
911 (15%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
676 (11%)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
351 (6%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
343 (6%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
340 (6%)Sahih Muslim
326 (5%)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
213 (4%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
203 (3%)Sunan Nasai
156 (3%)Al-Mujtaba from Al-Sunan = Al-Sunan Al-Sughra for Al-Nisa'i - T. Abdel Fattah Abu Ghuddah - N. Islamic Publications Office - Aleppo
155 (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
153 (3%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
134 (2%)Sahih Bukhari
103 (2%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
102 (2%)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
97 (2%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
86 (1%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
79 (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
77 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
74 (1%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
71 (1%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
58 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood
58 (1%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
57 (1%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
57 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
57 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
52 (1%)Jami at Tirmidhi
35 (1%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
34 (1%)Tahdhib Aasaar
34 (1%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
33 (1%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
32 (1%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
32 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
30 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah
30 (0%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
30 (0%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
30 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
28 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
28 (0%)Masnad Al Royani
26 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
26 (0%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
25 (0%)Shuab ul Iman
23 (0%)Sunnah by Ibn Abi Assem - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
22 (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
22 (0%)Thirsty resources to the additions of Ibn Hibban - T. Hussein Salim Asad Al-Darani - Abdu Ali Al-Koshak - Dar Al-Thaqafa Al-Arabiya, Damascus
21 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
21 (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
19 (0%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
19 (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
18 (0%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
18 (0%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
18 (0%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
17 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
16 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
16 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
14 (0%)The Ten Women of Imam Al-Nisa'i - Third Edition - T. Ali bin Nayef Al-Shahoud - N
14 (0%)Hijatul Wadah Ibn Hazam
12 (0%)Shama'il Muhammadiyah / Shumail Tirmidhi
12 (0%)Single Literature - T. Essam Musa Hadi - Dar Al-Siddiq - Jubail - Saudi Arabia
12 (0%)Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
11 (0%)Al-Bukhari's singular literature - T. Ali Abdel-Basit Mazyad - and Ali Abdul-Maqsoud Radwan - Al-Khanji Library - Egypt
11 (0%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
11 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
10 (0%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
9 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
9 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
8 (0%)Al Eman Ibn Minda
8 (0%)Kitab Al Qadar Al Firyabi
8 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
7 (0%)Al Marseel Abu Dawood
7 (0%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
5 (0%)The substantive refinement of Hilyat al-Awliya', by Hafiz Abi Naim al-Asbhani - T - N Dar Taibah for Publishing and Distribution -
5 (0%)Mukhtsar Qayam Al Lail w Qayam Ramzan w Qayam Al Wittar
5 (0%)Correspondence to Abi Dawood - T. Abdullah bin Musaed Al-Zahrani - Dar Al-Sami'i - Riyadh
5 (0%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
5 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
5 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana
5 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
5 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
5 (0%)The Book of Prayers by Ibn Hibban - T - N, Ahmad Al-Khudari Library
4 (0%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
4 (0%)Musnad Al Farooq
4 (0%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
4 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
4 (0%)Kitab Al Zohod
4 (0%)Hadith Zohri
4 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
4 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
4 (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
4 (0%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
4 (0%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
3 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
3 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
3 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
3 (0%)Al Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
3 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
3 (0%)Sunan Al Wardah Fi Al Fittan
3 (0%)Encouragement in the virtues of deeds and the reward for that - T. Muhammad Hassan Muhammad Hassan Ismail - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut - Lebanon
3 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
3 (0%)Al Madkhal Iilaa Al Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
3 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
3 (0%)Zakir Al-Quran w Riwayatihim Bazahum Baza
2 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah - Verified, commented on, and extracted his hadiths and presented to him by: Dr. Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami - N. The Islamic Bureau
2 (0%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
2 (0%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani, the thirteenth and fourteenth volumes - a team of researchers under the supervision and care of Dr. Saad bin Abdullah Al-Hamid and Dr. Khaled bin Abdul Rahman Al-Jeraisy - N
2 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
2 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
2 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
2 (0%)Al-Sunan Al-Sughra by Al-Bayhaqi Al-Munna Al-Kubra Explanation and Takhreej - T - N Al-Rushd Library
2 (0%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
2 (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
2 (0%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
2 (0%)Al Baes w Al Nushur Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)The Resurrection and Resurrection of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Abu Asim Al-Shawami Al-Athari - Dar Al-Hijaz Library for Publishing and Distribution, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2 (0%)One hundred omitted hadiths from Sunan al-Nisa'i al-Kubra, printed - T - N
2 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
2 (0%)Musnad Al Shammean
2 (0%)Isbat Azab Al Qabar
1 (0%)Al Qinaat
1 (0%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
1 (0%)Kitab Al Jihad Ibn Abi Asim
1 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
1 (0%)Khulq Afeal Al Ebad Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Qurah Al Aeneen Bar Raffa Yaddain Fi Salah
1 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
1 (0%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani (Qata Min Masaneed Min Asma Abdullah)
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem
1 (0%)Muajam Ibn Askar
1 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Tibrani
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Al Harsi
1 (0%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
1 (0%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
1 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani w Mantaqi Min Al Muajam Al Kabir (Bharf Noon Min Sahaba)
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
1 (0%)Al Etaqad w Al Hidayah Ilah Sabeel Al Reshad
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%)Proof of the Torment of the Grave and the Question of the Two Angels by Al-Bayhaqi - T. Al-Maktab Al-Salafi for Heritage Investigation - N. Islamic Heritage Library - Cairo
1 (0%)Al Qaza Wl Qadar
1 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Al Kifaya Fi Ailm Al Riwayh Al Khatib Al Baghdadi
1 (0%)Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
1 (0%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
1 (0%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
1 (0%)Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Barnamig Al-Tajibi
1 (0%)Makarem Al-Akhlaq by Al-Tabarani - T. Abu Bastam Muhammad bin Mustafa - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
1 (0%)Al-Bayhaqi’s Belief and Guidance to the Path of Righteousness on the Madhhab of the Predecessors and the Companions of Hadith - T. Ahmed Essam Al-Kateb - Dar Al-Afaq Al-Jadidah - Beirut
1 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
1 (0%)Bahr al-Fawa’id (famous for Ma’ani al-Akhbar) by al-Kalabadhi - directed by Kamal al-Din Zaki - Dar al-Salam - Cairo
1 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
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%)Objective classification of the history of Baghdad, by Al-Hafiz Abi Bakr Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi - T - N Dar Ibn Al-Jawzi - from the publications of the Noor Al-Islam Network
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