أَبِيهَا
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
432
Books
120
Teachers
107
Students
170
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·أَبِيهَا
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 - 432
Distribution By Collection
Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
32 (7%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
26 (6%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
25 (6%)Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
24 (6%)Musnad e Bazzar
19 (4%)Shuab ul Iman
11 (3%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
8 (2%)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
8 (2%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
8 (2%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
7 (2%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Al Harsi
7 (2%)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%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
7 (2%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
6 (1%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
6 (1%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
6 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood
6 (1%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
5 (1%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
5 (1%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
5 (1%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
5 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
5 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
4 (1%)Al Maqsad Al Ala Fi Zawaid Abu Yaalaa
4 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
4 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah
4 (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
4 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
4 (1%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
4 (1%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
4 (1%)Jami at Tirmidhi
4 (1%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
4 (1%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
4 (1%)Kitab Al Imama Wal Radi Ala Al Rrafidat
4 (1%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
4 (1%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
3 (1%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
3 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
3 (1%)Masnad Al Royani
3 (1%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
3 (1%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
3 (1%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
3 (1%)Kitab Al Dua
3 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
3 (1%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
3 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
3 (1%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
3 (1%)Musnad Al Shahab
3 (1%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
3 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
3 (1%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
3 (1%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
3 (1%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
3 (1%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
2 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
2 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
2 (0%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
2 (0%)Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi
2 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
2 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
2 (0%)Sunan Darmi
2 (0%)Fawaid Abi Muhammad Al Fakhi
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%)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
2 (0%)Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm
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%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
2 (0%)Al Bar w Al Salah
2 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
2 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
2 (0%)Makaram al-Akhlaq by al-Kharati and its Excellencies, and Mahmoud its methods - Dr. Abdullah bin Bajash bin Thabit al-Hamiri - Al-Rushd Library in 2006 AD
2 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
2 (0%)Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya
2 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
2 (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%)Shama'il Muhammadiyah / Shumail Tirmidhi
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Shafi
1 (0%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
1 (0%)Musnad Ibne Abi Shaibah
1 (0%)Musnad Abd Bin Hameed
1 (0%)Masnad Humaidi
1 (0%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
1 (0%)Al Aadab Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Al Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
1 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Tibrani
1 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
1 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana
1 (0%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
1 (0%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
1 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
1 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
1 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
1 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
1 (0%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
1 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
1 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Al Azraqi
1 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Ahkam Ibn Wahab
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
1 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
1 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
1 (0%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
1 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Al Hadith Al Rasool
1 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
1 (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
1 (0%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
1 (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
1 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
1 (0%)Musnad Al-Hamidi - T. Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azami - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya, Al-Mutanabi Library - Beirut, Cairo
1 (0%)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
1 (0%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
1 (0%)Makarem Al-Akhlaq by Al-Tabarani - T. Abu Bastam Muhammad bin Mustafa - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
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%)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%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
1 (0%)Makarim morals for cartography - Dr. Suad Suleiman Al-Khandaqawi - 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%)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