سَلْمَانَ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
1,015
Books
146
Teachers
215
Students
205
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·سَلْمَانَ
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 - 1,015
Distribution By Collection
Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
115 (11%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
77 (8%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
62 (6%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
60 (6%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
58 (6%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
52 (5%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
30 (3%)Musnad e Bazzar
30 (3%)Shuab ul Iman
19 (2%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
17 (2%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
17 (2%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
16 (2%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
14 (1%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
13 (1%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
12 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
12 (1%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
11 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
11 (1%)Musnad Al Shammean
11 (1%)Al Zohod w Al Riqaiq
10 (1%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
10 (1%)Musnad Ibne Abi Shaibah
10 (1%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
7 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
7 (1%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi with footnotes (corresponding version) - T. Muhammad bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Turki, in cooperation with the Research Center in Dar Hajar - Dar Hajar for Printing and Publishing - Cairo
7 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
7 (1%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
7 (1%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
7 (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
7 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
6 (1%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
6 (1%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
5 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah
5 (0%)Sahih Muslim
5 (0%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
5 (0%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
5 (0%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
5 (0%)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
5 (0%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
5 (0%)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
5 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
5 (0%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
5 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood
5 (0%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
4 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
4 (0%)Jami at Tirmidhi
4 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
4 (0%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
4 (0%)Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
4 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
4 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
4 (0%)The substantive refinement of Hilyat al-Awliya', by Hafiz Abi Naim al-Asbhani - T - N Dar Taibah for Publishing and Distribution -
4 (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
4 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
4 (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
4 (0%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
4 (0%)Manaqib Ameer Al Momineen Ali Bin Abi Talib Moghazli
4 (0%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
4 (0%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
4 (0%)Al Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
4 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
4 (0%)Sunan Nasai
4 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
4 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
4 (0%)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
4 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
3 (0%)Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi
3 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
3 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
3 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
3 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
3 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
3 (0%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
3 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
3 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
3 (0%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
3 (0%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
3 (0%)Sahih Bukhari
3 (0%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
3 (0%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
3 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana
2 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
2 (0%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi - T - N Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
2 (0%)Al Tahoor
2 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
2 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
2 (0%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
2 (0%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
2 (0%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
2 (0%)Anecdotes of assets in the hadiths of the Messenger - the chained version - T. Ismail bin Ibrahim Metwally Awad - Imam Al-Bukhari Library
2 (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
2 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
2 (0%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
2 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
2 (0%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
2 (0%)Al Qaza Wl Qadar
2 (0%)Bulugh Al Maram
2 (0%)Al Amwal Abu Ubaida
2 (0%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
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%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
2 (0%)Kitab Al Jihad Ibn Abi Asim
2 (0%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
2 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
2 (0%)Sunan Darmi
2 (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
2 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
2 (0%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
2 (0%)Sharah Mazahib Ahle Al Sunnah
1 (0%)Fazail Al Oqat
1 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
1 (0%)Single Literature - T. Essam Musa Hadi - Dar Al-Siddiq - Jubail - Saudi Arabia
1 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm
1 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
1 (0%)Al Kifaya Fi Ailm Al Riwayh Al Khatib Al Baghdadi
1 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
1 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
1 (0%)Kitab Al Zohod
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
1 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
1 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
1 (0%)Fazail Al-Khulfa Al-Rashidin
1 (0%)Ahadith Al Shoyoukh Al Seeqat (Al Mushaykhat Al Kubra)
1 (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)
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
1 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
1 (0%)Musnad Firdos Bima Masoor Al Khitab
1 (0%)Shama'il Muhammadiyah / Shumail Tirmidhi
1 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
1 (0%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
1 (0%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
1 (0%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
1 (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
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
1 (0%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
1 (0%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
1 (0%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
1 (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
1 (0%)In order to seek the additions of Musnad Al-Harith - T. Mosaad Abdul Hamid Muhammad Al-Saadani - Dar Al-Tala'i for Publishing, Distribution and Export
1 (0%)Al Muajam Abu Yaalaa
1 (0%)Counciling and the jewels of religious knowledge - T - N Dar Ibn Hazm - Lebanon - Beirut - 1423 A.H. - 2002 A.D.
1 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
1 (0%)Tarq Hadith Min Kazib Ala Mutaemmdan
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