ابن أبي غنية

· BH - AH

Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت

Narrations

228

Books

Teachers

Students

Identity

Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·ابن أبي غنية

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 - 228

Distribution By Collection

Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah

41 (18%)

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

41 (18%)

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

21 (9%)

The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N

11 (5%)

Kitab Al Fittan

6 (3%)

Musnad Abu Yaalaa

6 (3%)

Al-Fitan by Naeem bin Hammad - Prof. Dr. Suhail Zakkar - Dar Al-Fikr

5 (2%)

Musnad Ibn al-Jaad - T Abd al-Mahdi bin Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Hadi - N Al-Falah Library

5 (2%)

Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya

5 (2%)

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

4 (2%)

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

3 (1%)

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

3 (1%)

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

2 (1%)

Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal

2 (1%)

Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble

2 (1%)

Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis

2 (1%)

Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta

2 (1%)

Sunan Ibn Majah

2 (1%)

Musnad Ishaq Bin Rahiviyah

2 (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

2 (1%)

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

2 (1%)

Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat

2 (1%)

Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi

2 (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

2 (1%)

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

2 (1%)

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

2 (1%)

Al Muajam Abu Yaalaa

2 (1%)

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

2 (1%)

Sunnah by Ibn Abi Assem - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut

1 (0%)

Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut

1 (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

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%)

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%)

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

1 (0%)

Al-Bukhari's singular literature - T. Ali Abdel-Basit Mazyad - and Ali Abdul-Maqsoud Radwan - Al-Khanji Library - Egypt

1 (0%)

Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain

1 (0%)

Counciling and the jewels of religious knowledge - T - N Dar Ibn Hazm - Lebanon - Beirut - 1423 A.H. - 2002 A.D.

1 (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

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%)

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%)

Single Literature - T. Essam Musa Hadi - Dar Al-Siddiq - Jubail - Saudi Arabia

1 (0%)

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

1 (0%)

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

1 (0%)

Correspondence to Abi Dawood - T. Abdullah bin Musaed Al-Zahrani - Dar Al-Sami'i - Riyadh

1 (0%)

Sahih Bukhari

1 (0%)

Objective classification of the history of Baghdad, by Al-Hafiz Abi Bakr Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi - T - N Dar Ibn Al-Jawzi - from the publications of the Noor Al-Islam Network

1 (0%)

Sunan Nasai

1 (0%)

Sahih Ibn Khuzamia

1 (0%)

Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain

1 (0%)

Al Adab Al Mufrad

1 (0%)

Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai

1 (0%)

Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble

1 (0%)

Sunan Dar Al Qutni

1 (0%)

Al Marseel Abu Dawood

1 (0%)

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

1 (0%)

Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya

1 (0%)

Kitab Al Ezma

1 (0%)

Kitab Al Shriya

1 (0%)

Fawaid Tammam

1 (0%)

Kitab Al Muajam

1 (0%)

Al Maqsad Al Ala Fi Zawaid Abu Yaalaa

1 (0%)

Manaqib Ameer Al Momineen Ali Bin Abi Talib Moghazli

1 (0%)

Hadith Siraj

1 (0%)

Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm

1 (0%)

Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi

1 (0%)

Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia

1 (0%)

Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban

1 (0%)

Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem

1 (0%)

Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Sani

1 (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

1 (0%)

Thirsty resources to the additions of Ibn Hibban - T. Hussein Salim Asad Al-Darani - Abdu Ali Al-Koshak - Dar Al-Thaqafa Al-Arabiya, Damascus

1 (0%)

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

1 (0%)

Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut

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