عَمْرِو بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ الزُّرَقِيِّ

· BH - AH

Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت

Narrations

298

Books

Teachers

Students

Identity

Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·عَمْرِو بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ الزُّرَقِيِّ

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 - 298

Distribution By Collection

The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N

30 (10%)

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

13 (4%)

Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo

10 (3%)

Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi

9 (3%)

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 (2%)

Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee

7 (2%)

Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar

6 (2%)

Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo

6 (2%)

Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.

6 (2%)

Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai

6 (2%)

Sahih Bukhari

6 (2%)

Sahih Muslim

5 (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

5 (2%)

Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani

5 (2%)

Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut

5 (2%)

Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut

5 (2%)

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 (2%)

Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut

5 (2%)

Musnad Abi Awana

5 (2%)

Sahih Ibn Hibban

5 (2%)

Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo

5 (2%)

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

4 (1%)

Sunan Abi Dawood

4 (1%)

Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble

4 (1%)

Sunan Al Masoor Al Shafi

4 (1%)

Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim

4 (1%)

The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation

4 (1%)

Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation

4 (1%)

Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut

4 (1%)

Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo

4 (1%)

The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr

4 (1%)

Sahih Ibn Khuzamia

3 (1%)

Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi

3 (1%)

Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih

3 (1%)

Muwatta Imam Malik Narrated by Muhammad bin Al-Hasan al-Shaybani

3 (1%)

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 (1%)

Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo

3 (1%)

The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr

3 (1%)

Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut

3 (1%)

Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut

3 (1%)

Muwatta Malik, narrated by Abu Musab al-Zuhri

3 (1%)

Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi

2 (1%)

Al-Mujtaba (known as Al-Sunan Al-Sughra) for Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research and Information Technology Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo

2 (1%)

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

2 (1%)

Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi

2 (1%)

Sunan Ibn Majah

2 (1%)

Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai

2 (1%)

Jami at Tirmidhi

2 (1%)

Masnad Humaidi

2 (1%)

Hadith Siraj

2 (1%)

The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut

2 (1%)

Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba

2 (1%)

Al-Mujtaba from Al-Sunan = Al-Sunan Al-Sughra for Al-Nisa'i - T. Abdel Fattah Abu Ghuddah - N. Islamic Publications Office - Aleppo

2 (1%)

Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah

2 (1%)

Mota Malik al-Muhaqiq Muhammad Mustafa al-Adhami

2 (1%)

Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi - T - N Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut

2 (1%)

Al-Mawta Al-Imam Malik Narrated by Sweid bin Saeed al-Hadthani

2 (1%)

Al-Muwata Al-Muhaqiq Dr. Bashar Maruf

2 (1%)

Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library

2 (1%)

Sunan Nasai

2 (1%)

Mota-i-Imam Malik-ul-Haqiq Muhammad Fawad Abd al-Baqi

2 (1%)

The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage

1 (0%)

Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee

1 (0%)

Sunan Darmi

1 (0%)

Kitab Al Zohod

1 (0%)

Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail

1 (0%)

Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool

1 (0%)

Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti

1 (0%)

Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi

1 (0%)

Al Jamia Fi Al Ahkam Ibn Wahab

1 (0%)

Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq

1 (0%)

Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia

1 (0%)

Tahdhib Aasaar

1 (0%)

Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim

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%)

Al-Muta' Imam Malik Ibn Anas Narrated by Ibn Al-Qasim

1 (0%)

Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee

1 (0%)

Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut

1 (0%)

The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh

1 (0%)

Musnad Al Farooq

1 (0%)

Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut

1 (0%)

Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah

1 (0%)

Musnad Abu Yaalaa

1 (0%)

Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani

1 (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.

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%)

The Book of Prayers by Ibn Hibban - T - N, Ahmad Al-Khudari Library

1 (0%)

The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla

1 (0%)

Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo

1 (0%)

Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi

1 (0%)

Kitab Al Dua

1 (0%)

Muajam Ibn Askar

1 (0%)

Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi

1 (0%)

Classical Scholar Assessments

The cards below present assessments from the major classical critics. Together they form the standard reference for evaluating Abu Hurayrah's status in the science of Rijal (narrator criticism).

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