عَائِشَةَ أَنَّهَا
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
1,899
Books
172
Teachers
398
Students
237
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·عَائِشَةَ أَنَّهَا
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 - 1,899
Distribution By Collection
The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
234 (12%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
123 (6%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
123 (6%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
116 (6%)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
48 (3%)Musnad Abi Awana
44 (2%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
40 (2%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
40 (2%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
38 (2%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
35 (2%)Sahih Muslim
31 (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
31 (2%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
28 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
26 (1%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
26 (1%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
23 (1%)Sahih Bukhari
22 (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
22 (1%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
20 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
20 (1%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
20 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
19 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
19 (1%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
19 (1%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
18 (1%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
18 (1%)Masnad Humaidi
17 (1%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
17 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
16 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
16 (1%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
16 (1%)Musnad Ishaq Bin Rahiviyah
15 (1%)Hadith Siraj
15 (1%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
13 (1%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
13 (1%)Tahdhib Aasaar
13 (1%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
12 (1%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
12 (1%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
12 (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
12 (1%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
12 (1%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
12 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood
12 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
11 (1%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
11 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
11 (1%)Muwatta Malik, narrated by Abu Musab al-Zuhri
11 (1%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
10 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
10 (1%)Musnad Siraj
10 (1%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
10 (1%)Sunan Nasai
10 (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
10 (1%)Al Aasaar Abu Yousaf
10 (1%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Ibn Khusro
9 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
9 (0%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
9 (0%)Musnad Imam Shafi
9 (0%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
9 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
8 (0%)Shuab ul Iman
8 (0%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
8 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah
8 (0%)Sunan Al Masoor Al Shafi
8 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
8 (0%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
7 (0%)Hijatul Wadah Ibn Hazam
7 (0%)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 (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
7 (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
7 (0%)Al Maqsad Al Ala Fi Zawaid Abu Yaalaa
6 (0%)Al-Mujtaba from Al-Sunan = Al-Sunan Al-Sughra for Al-Nisa'i - T. Abdel Fattah Abu Ghuddah - N. Islamic Publications Office - Aleppo
6 (0%)Hadith Zohri
5 (0%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
5 (0%)Jami at Tirmidhi
5 (0%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
5 (0%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
5 (0%)Al Aadab Al Baihaqee
4 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
4 (0%)Musnad e Bazzar
4 (0%)Fawaid Abi Muhammad Al Fakhi
4 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
4 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Al Harsi
4 (0%)Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
4 (0%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
4 (0%)Muwatta Imam Malik Narrated by Muhammad bin Al-Hasan al-Shaybani
4 (0%)Fazail Al-Khulfa Al-Rashidin
3 (0%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
3 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
3 (0%)Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi
3 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
3 (0%)Musnad Al Shammean
3 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour Habib al-Rahman al-Azami, Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut.
3 (0%)Al-Mawta Al-Imam Malik Narrated by Sweid bin Saeed al-Hadthani
3 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Ahkam Ibn Wahab
3 (0%)Musnad Al-Muwatta for Al Jawhari
3 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Sani
3 (0%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
3 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
3 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
3 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Al Azraqi
3 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
3 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour - T. Abu Othman Saeed bin Mansour bin Shuba Al-Khorasani Al-Jawzjani - N Dar Al-Salafiyyah - India
3 (0%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
3 (0%)Sunan Darmi
3 (0%)Al Bar w Al Salah
3 (0%)Al Sunnah Al Maroozi
2 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Hadith Ibn Wahab
2 (0%)Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
2 (0%)Zakir Al-Quran w Riwayatihim Bazahum Baza
2 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
2 (0%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
2 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
2 (0%)Al Zohod w Al Riqaiq
2 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min al-Musnad al-Mashkol - T - N Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
2 (0%)Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
2 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
2 (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
2 (0%)Shama'il Muhammadiyah / Shumail Tirmidhi
2 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Al Sunnan Al Musnad Ibn Al Jarood
2 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo
2 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min Al-Sunan Al-Musnadah - T. Abu Ishaq Al-Huwaini - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
2 (0%)Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya
2 (0%)Juzz Alf Dinar Al Qotai
2 (0%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
2 (0%)Adab Ibn Abi Shaibah
1 (0%)Fazail Al Oqat
1 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
1 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Hanifa Al Haskafi
1 (0%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
1 (0%)Qurah Al Aeneen Bar Raffa Yaddain Fi Salah
1 (0%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
1 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
1 (0%)Kitab Al Zohod
1 (0%)Al Tahoor
1 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
1 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
1 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Qayam Al Lail w Qayam Ramzan w Qayam Al Wittar
1 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
1 (0%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
1 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
1 (0%)Min Hadith Khithima Bin Suleiman
1 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
1 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
1 (0%)Tareekh Daryah
1 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
1 (0%)The Book of Prayers by Ibn Hibban - T - N, Ahmad Al-Khudari Library
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
1 (0%)Masawi Al Akhlaq Wamadhumumaha
1 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani (Qata Min Masaneed Min Asma Abdullah)
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem
1 (0%)Mota-i-Imam Malik-ul-Haqiq Muhammad Fawad Abd al-Baqi
1 (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
1 (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
1 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
1 (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
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%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
1 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
1 (0%)Musnad Al-Hamidi - T. Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azami - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya, Al-Mutanabi Library - Beirut, Cairo
1 (0%)Al-Mukhtab from Musnad Abd Ibn Hamid - T. Abu Abdullah Ahmad bin Ibrahim bin Abi Al-Ainin - n Dar Ibn Abbas Library - Mansoura, Arab Republic of Egypt
1 (0%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
1 (0%)Musnad Ibn al-Jaad - T Abd al-Mahdi bin Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Hadi - N Al-Falah Library
1 (0%)Single Literature - T. Essam Musa Hadi - Dar Al-Siddiq - Jubail - Saudi Arabia
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 Abi Hanifa, Al-Haskafi’s narration - T. Abdul Rahman Hassan Mahmoud - N. Al-Adab - Egypt
1 (0%)Abbreviated Sahih Al-Bukhari - T. Ali bin Nayef Al-Shahoud - N
1 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
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