عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمَدِينِيِّ،
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
1,550
Books
123
Teachers
374
Students
322
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمَدِينِيِّ،
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 - 1,550
Distribution By Collection
The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
154 (10%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
141 (9%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
78 (5%)Al-Sunan Al-Kubra by Al-Bayhaqi, and in its appendage is Al-Jawhar Al-Naqi - T - N Majlis Al-Maarif Al-Maarif - Hyderabad
75 (5%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
58 (4%)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
57 (4%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
57 (4%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
52 (3%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
51 (3%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
51 (3%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
49 (3%)Shuab ul Iman
48 (3%)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
45 (3%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
33 (2%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
30 (2%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
25 (2%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
24 (2%)Kitab Al Dua
24 (2%)Thirsty resources to the additions of Ibn Hibban - T. Hussein Salim Asad Al-Darani - Abdu Ali Al-Koshak - Dar Al-Thaqafa Al-Arabiya, Damascus
23 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
22 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana
20 (1%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
17 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
17 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
17 (1%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
15 (1%)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
14 (1%)Al Kifaya Fi Ailm Al Riwayh Al Khatib Al Baghdadi
14 (1%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
12 (1%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
10 (1%)Al Baes w Al Nushur Al Baihaqee
10 (1%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
9 (1%)The Resurrection and Resurrection of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Abu Asim Al-Shawami Al-Athari - Dar Al-Hijaz Library for Publishing and Distribution, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
9 (1%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
8 (1%)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
8 (1%)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
8 (1%)Al Tahyuriyat
8 (1%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
8 (1%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
8 (1%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
8 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
7 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
7 (0%)Al Qaza Wl Qadar
7 (0%)Al Madkhal Iilaa Al Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
7 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
6 (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
6 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
6 (0%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
6 (0%)Al Muajam Al Sagheer Tibrani
6 (0%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
6 (0%)The Resurrection and Resurrection of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sheikh Amer Ahmed Haidar - The Center for Cultural Services and Research, Beirut
6 (0%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
5 (0%)The Resurrection and Resurrection of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Abu Hajar Muhammad Al-Saeed Bin Bassiouni Zaghloul Al-Abyani - The Foundation for Cultural Books
5 (0%)Counciling and the jewels of religious knowledge - T - N Dar Ibn Hazm - Lebanon - Beirut - 1423 A.H. - 2002 A.D.
5 (0%)Al Eman Ibn Minda
5 (0%)Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm
5 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
5 (0%)Musnad Al Shammean
4 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
4 (0%)Al-Sunan Al-Sughra by Al-Bayhaqi Al-Munna Al-Kubra Explanation and Takhreej - T - N Al-Rushd Library
4 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
4 (0%)The Collector of the Explanation of Knowledge and His Excellence Al-Qurtubi - T. Mosaad Abdel Hamid Muhammad Al-Saadani - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
4 (0%)Musnad Al-Muwatta for Al Jawhari
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%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
4 (0%)Fazail Abi Hanifa w Akhbara w Manaqib
4 (0%)Jami at Tirmidhi
4 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
4 (0%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
3 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
3 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
3 (0%)Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya
3 (0%)Rad Ala Al Jaheem Al Darmi
3 (0%)Zakir Al-Quran w Riwayatihim Bazahum Baza
3 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
3 (0%)Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem
3 (0%)The Great Dictionary of al-Tabarani, a piece from the twenty-first volume (includes part of the Musnad al-Nu`man ibn Bashir) - compiled by a team of researchers under the supervision and care of: Dr. Saad bin Abdullah al-Hamid and Dr. Khalid bin Abdul Rahman Al Jeraisy - N
3 (0%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
3 (0%)The Collector of the Statement of Knowledge and His Excellence Al-Qurtubi - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Fawaz Ahmad Zumrli - Al-Rayyan Foundation - Dar Ibn Hazm
3 (0%)Musnad Ibn al-Jaad - T Abd al-Mahdi bin Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Hadi - N Al-Falah Library
3 (0%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
2 (0%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
2 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
2 (0%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
2 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani (Qata Min Masaneed Min Asma Abdullah)
2 (0%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
2 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
2 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
2 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
2 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
1 (0%)Ahadith Al Shoyoukh Al Seeqat (Al Mushaykhat Al Kubra)
1 (0%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
1 (0%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
1 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
1 (0%)Tarq Hadith Min Kazib Ala Mutaemmdan
1 (0%)Sunan Darmi
1 (0%)Muajam Ibn Askar
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%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
1 (0%)Sharah Mazahib Ahle Al Sunnah
1 (0%)Al Aadab Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Al Etaqad w Al Hidayah Ilah Sabeel Al Reshad
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%)Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
1 (0%)Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
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%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
1 (0%)Minutes of alerting and defining what is in the “chosen hadiths” of errors and corrections - T - N
1 (0%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
1 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani w Mantaqi Min Al Muajam Al Kabir (Bharf Noon Min Sahaba)
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Ibn Khusro
1 (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
1 (0%)Kitab Al Imama Wal Radi Ala Al Rrafidat
1 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
1 (0%)Fazail Al-Khulfa Al-Rashidin
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
1 (0%)Hadith Zohri
1 (0%)Makarim morals for cartography - Dr. Suad Suleiman Al-Khandaqawi - N
1 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
1 (0%)Al-Bayhaqi’s Belief and Guidance to the Path of Righteousness on the Madhhab of the Predecessors and the Companions of Hadith - T. Ahmed Essam Al-Kateb - Dar Al-Afaq Al-Jadidah - Beirut
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
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