عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
2,092
Books
193
Teachers
226
Students
354
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ
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 - 2,092
Distribution By Collection
Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
165 (8%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
117 (6%)Al-Musnad Al-Shashi - Dr. Mahfouz Al-Rahman Zainallah - N Library of Science and Governance - Madinah
89 (4%)Musnad Al Shashi
89 (4%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
84 (4%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
74 (4%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
68 (3%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
60 (3%)Musnad Al Shammean
56 (3%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
51 (2%)Musnad e Bazzar
41 (2%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
34 (2%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
34 (2%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
31 (1%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
30 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
30 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah
24 (1%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
24 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
23 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
23 (1%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
23 (1%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
23 (1%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
22 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
22 (1%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
22 (1%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
20 (1%)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
19 (1%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
18 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
18 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
17 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
16 (1%)Shuab ul Iman
16 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
16 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana
15 (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
15 (1%)Sahih Bukhari
14 (1%)Sunan Nasai
14 (1%)Jami at Tirmidhi
14 (1%)Sunan Darmi
14 (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%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
13 (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
13 (1%)Sahih Muslim
13 (1%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
12 (1%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
12 (1%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
11 (1%)Al Eman Ibn Minda
11 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood
11 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
11 (1%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
10 (0%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
10 (0%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
9 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
9 (0%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
9 (0%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
9 (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
9 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
8 (0%)Part of reading behind the imam of Al-Bukhari - the text of Professor Fadl Al-Rahman Al-Thawry, reviewed by: Professor Muhammad Atallah Khalif Al-Fawhabani - The Salafi Library
8 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
8 (0%)Juzz Al Qurah Khlaf Imam Bukhari
8 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
8 (0%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
8 (0%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
8 (0%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
8 (0%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
7 (0%)Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi
7 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
7 (0%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
7 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
7 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
7 (0%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
7 (0%)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)
7 (0%)Kitab Al Jihad Ibn Abi Asim
6 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
6 (0%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
5 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
5 (0%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
5 (0%)Sunan Al Masoor Al Shafi
5 (0%)Khulq Afeal Al Ebad Al Bukhari
5 (0%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
5 (0%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
5 (0%)Musnad Abd Bin Hameed
5 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
4 (0%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
4 (0%)The Book of Prayers by Ibn Hibban - T - N, Ahmad Al-Khudari Library
4 (0%)In order to search for excesses Musnad al-Harith - d d. Hussein Ahmed Saleh Al-Bakri - N Center for the Service of the Sunnah and the Prophet's Biography - Medina
4 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min al-Musnad al-Mashkol - T - N Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
4 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min Al-Sunan Al-Musnadah - T. Abu Ishaq Al-Huwaini - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
4 (0%)Sifatul Jannah
4 (0%)Musnad Imam Shafi
4 (0%)Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya
4 (0%)Mukhtsar Qayam Al Lail w Qayam Ramzan w Qayam Al Wittar
4 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Al Sunnan Al Musnad Ibn Al Jarood
4 (0%)Fazail Al Oqat
4 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
4 (0%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
4 (0%)Bulugh Al Maram
4 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
4 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
4 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
4 (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
4 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
3 (0%)Al Aadab Al Baihaqee
3 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Tibrani
3 (0%)Al Sunnah Al Maroozi
3 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
3 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
3 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
3 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
3 (0%)Masnad Humaidi
3 (0%)Hadith Zohri
3 (0%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
3 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
3 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
3 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
3 (0%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
3 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Al Hadith Al Rasool
3 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Sani
3 (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
3 (0%)Musnad Imam Al-Shafi’i (Al-Sindi arrangement) (jurisdictional arrangement of the chapters: Muhammad Abed Al-Sindi) - Arranged on the jurisprudential chapters: Muhammad Abid Al-Sindi - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya, Beirut - Lebanon
3 (0%)Musnad Imam al-Shafi’i (Singer’s arrangement) - Arranged by: Sanjar bin Abdullah al-Jawli, Abu Saeed, Alam al-Din (deceased: 745 AH) - by Ghiras Publishing and Distribution Company, Kuwait
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%)Al-Sunan Al-Sughra by Al-Bayhaqi Al-Munna Al-Kubra Explanation and Takhreej - T - N Al-Rushd Library
3 (0%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
3 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
3 (0%)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.
3 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
3 (0%)Makarem Al-Akhlaq by Al-Tabarani - T. Abu Bastam Muhammad bin Mustafa - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
3 (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
3 (0%)Hadith Siraj
2 (0%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
2 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
2 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
2 (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
2 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
2 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
2 (0%)Al Zohod w Al Riqaiq
2 (0%)Rad Ala Al Jaheem Al Darmi
2 (0%)Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
2 (0%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
2 (0%)Al Muajam Al Sagheer Tibrani
2 (0%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
2 (0%)Muwatta Malik, narrated by Abu Musab al-Zuhri
2 (0%)Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Muajam Ibn Askar
2 (0%)Al Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
2 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
2 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour Habib al-Rahman al-Azami, Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut.
2 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
2 (0%)Tareekh Daryah
2 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
2 (0%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
2 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
2 (0%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
2 (0%)Tafseer Min Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
2 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Ahkam Ibn Wahab
1 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
1 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
1 (0%)Ahadith Al Shoyoukh Al Seeqat (Al Mushaykhat Al Kubra)
1 (0%)Sunan Al Wardah Fi Al Fittan
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi - T - N Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
1 (0%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
1 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
1 (0%)Zakir Al-Quran w Riwayatihim Bazahum Baza
1 (0%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
1 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
1 (0%)Al-Mujtaba (known as Al-Sunan Al-Sughra) for Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research and Information Technology Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
1 (0%)Kitab Al Toheed w Isbat Sifaat Al Rab Azwjal
1 (0%)Musnad Siraj
1 (0%)Musnad Ishaq Bin Rahiviyah
1 (0%)Anecdotes of assets in the hadiths of the Messenger - the chained version - T. Ismail bin Ibrahim Metwally Awad - Imam Al-Bukhari Library
1 (0%)Al Tahyuriyat
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%)Al Etaqad w Al Hidayah Ilah Sabeel Al Reshad
1 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour - T. Abu Othman Saeed bin Mansour bin Shuba Al-Khorasani Al-Jawzjani - N Dar Al-Salafiyyah - India
1 (0%)Fawaid Abi Muhammad Al Fakhi
1 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Hadith Ibn Wahab
1 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
1 (0%)Aamali Ibn Samaon
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-Muntaqqa min al-Sunan al-Musnad by Ibn al-Jaroud - T. Abdullah Omar al-Baroudi - n The Cultural Book Foundation - Beirut
1 (0%)Isbat Azab Al Qabar
1 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
1 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
1 (0%)Al Amwal Abu Ubaida
1 (0%)Ahadith Ismaeel Bin Jafar
1 (0%)Kitab Al Fittan
1 (0%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
1 (0%)Al-Mujtaba from Al-Sunan = Al-Sunan Al-Sughra for Al-Nisa'i - T. Abdel Fattah Abu Ghuddah - N. Islamic Publications Office - Aleppo
1 (0%)Al Marseel Abu Dawood
1 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
1 (0%)Al Madkhal Iilaa Al Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Weak Resources of the Thirsty to the Additions of Ibn Hibban - T. Muhammad Nasir Al-Din Al-Albani - Dar Al-Sami’i for Publishing and Distribution, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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