عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
3,075
Books
209
Teachers
365
Students
311
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ
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 - 3,075
Distribution By Collection
Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
253 (8%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
220 (7%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
206 (7%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
145 (5%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
145 (5%)Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
96 (3%)Musnad e Bazzar
79 (3%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
66 (2%)Masnad Al Royani
52 (2%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
49 (2%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
49 (2%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
43 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
43 (1%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
41 (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
40 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
39 (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
37 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
36 (1%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
36 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
35 (1%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
34 (1%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
31 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
31 (1%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
31 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
30 (1%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
28 (1%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
27 (1%)Jami at Tirmidhi
27 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
26 (1%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
24 (1%)Sunan Nasai
24 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana
23 (1%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
23 (1%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
22 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
21 (1%)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
21 (1%)Sahih Muslim
21 (1%)Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi
20 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood
20 (1%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
20 (1%)Sahih Bukhari
20 (1%)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
19 (1%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
19 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
19 (1%)Shuab ul Iman
18 (1%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
17 (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
17 (1%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
17 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
17 (1%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
16 (1%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
16 (1%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
13 (0%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
13 (0%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi - T - N Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
13 (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
13 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
13 (0%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
13 (0%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
13 (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
12 (0%)Juzz Al Qurah Khlaf Imam Bukhari
12 (0%)Hadith Siraj
12 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
11 (0%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
11 (0%)Part of reading behind the imam of Al-Bukhari - the text of Professor Fadl Al-Rahman Al-Thawry, reviewed by: Professor Muhammad Atallah Khalif Al-Fawhabani - The Salafi Library
10 (0%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
10 (0%)Sunan Darmi
10 (0%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
10 (0%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
10 (0%)Manaqib Ameer Al Momineen Ali Bin Abi Talib Moghazli
9 (0%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
9 (0%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
9 (0%)Bulugh Al Maram
9 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
9 (0%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
9 (0%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
9 (0%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
8 (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
8 (0%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
8 (0%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
8 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
8 (0%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
8 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min al-Musnad al-Mashkol - T - N Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
7 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
7 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
7 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
7 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
7 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min Al-Sunan Al-Musnadah - T. Abu Ishaq Al-Huwaini - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
7 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
6 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
6 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
6 (0%)The Book of Prayers by Ibn Hibban - T - N, Ahmad Al-Khudari Library
6 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
6 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
6 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Al Sunnan Al Musnad Ibn Al Jarood
6 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
6 (0%)Al Aadab Al Baihaqee
6 (0%)Al-Sunan Al-Sughra by Al-Bayhaqi Al-Munna Al-Kubra Explanation and Takhreej - T - N Al-Rushd Library
6 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
5 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
5 (0%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
5 (0%)Masnad Humaidi
5 (0%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
5 (0%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
5 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
5 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
5 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo
5 (0%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
5 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Al Harsi
5 (0%)Al Muajam Al Sagheer Tibrani
5 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Ibn Khusro
4 (0%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
4 (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
4 (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
4 (0%)Al Qaza Wl Qadar
4 (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)
4 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
4 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
4 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
4 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
4 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
4 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
4 (0%)Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm
4 (0%)Kitab Al Qadar Al Firyabi
4 (0%)Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem
4 (0%)Al Etaqad w Al Hidayah Ilah Sabeel Al Reshad
3 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
3 (0%)Juzz Alf Dinar Al Qotai
3 (0%)Masawi Al Akhlaq Wamadhumumaha
3 (0%)Musnad Imam Shafi
3 (0%)Musnad Al-Hamidi - T. Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azami - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya, Al-Mutanabi Library - Beirut, Cairo
3 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
3 (0%)Muajam Ibn Askar
3 (0%)Zakir Al-Quran w Riwayatihim Bazahum Baza
3 (0%)Tareekh Al-Madina
3 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
2 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah
2 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
2 (0%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
2 (0%)Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
2 (0%)Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Al Baes w Al Nushur Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
2 (0%)Al Eman Ibn Minda
2 (0%)Al Sunnah Al Maroozi
2 (0%)Kitab Al Jihad Ibn Abi Asim
2 (0%)Sunan Al Wardah Fi Al Fittan
2 (0%)Rad Ala Al Jaheem Al Darmi
2 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
2 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
2 (0%)Al Kifaya Fi Ailm Al Riwayh Al Khatib Al Baghdadi
2 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
2 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
2 (0%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
2 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
2 (0%)Kitab Al Imama Wal Radi Ala Al Rrafidat
2 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
2 (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
2 (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
2 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour - T. Abu Othman Saeed bin Mansour bin Shuba Al-Khorasani Al-Jawzjani - N Dar Al-Salafiyyah - India
2 (0%)Al-Mujtaba from Al-Sunan = Al-Sunan Al-Sughra for Al-Nisa'i - T. Abdel Fattah Abu Ghuddah - N. Islamic Publications Office - Aleppo
2 (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.
2 (0%)Musnad Ibn al-Jaad - T Abd al-Mahdi bin Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Hadi - N Al-Falah Library
2 (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
2 (0%)Musnad Al Shammean
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%)Abbreviated Sahih Al-Imam Al-Bukhari - T. Muhammad Nasir Al-Din Al-Albani - Al-Ma'arif Library for Publishing and Distribution, Riyadh
1 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Sani
1 (0%)Weak Resources of the Thirsty to the Additions of Ibn Hibban - T. Muhammad Nasir Al-Din Al-Albani - Dar Al-Sami’i for Publishing and Distribution, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1 (0%)Istadrakat Al Baes w Al Nushur
1 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Al Hadith Al Rasool
1 (0%)Al Fard Dar Al Qutni
1 (0%)Fazail Al-Khulfa Al-Rashidin
1 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
1 (0%)Min Hadith Khithima Bin Suleiman
1 (0%)Al Royah Dar Al Qutni
1 (0%)Hijatul Wadah Ibn Hazam
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Qayam Al Lail w Qayam Ramzan w Qayam Al Wittar
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
1 (0%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Counciling and the jewels of religious knowledge - T - N Dar Ibn Hazm - Lebanon - Beirut - 1423 A.H. - 2002 A.D.
1 (0%)Musnad Al Shashi
1 (0%)Al Maqsad Al Ala Fi Zawaid Abu Yaalaa
1 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
1 (0%)Kitab Al Fittan
1 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour Habib al-Rahman al-Azami, Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut.
1 (0%)Ahadith Al Shoyoukh Al Seeqat (Al Mushaykhat Al Kubra)
1 (0%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
1 (0%)Kitab Al Toheed w Isbat Sifaat Al Rab Azwjal
1 (0%)Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya
1 (0%)Al Amali Fi Aasaar Al Sahaba
1 (0%)Khulq Afeal Al Ebad Al Bukhari
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%)Musnad Abi Hanifa Al Haskafi
1 (0%)Sunan Al Masoor Al Shafi
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%)Kitab Al Aasaar Al Shabani
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%)Etal Al Qaloob
1 (0%)Tarq Hadith Min Kazib Ala Mutaemmdan
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%)Musnad Ibne Abi Shaibah
1 (0%)Sharah Mazahib Ahle Al Sunnah
1 (0%)Fazail Al Oqat
1 (0%)Adab Ibn Abi Shaibah
1 (0%)Musnad Abd Bin Hameed
1 (0%)Monotheism of Ibn Mandah and Knowledge of the Names and Attributes of God Almighty and His Attributes on Agreement and Uniqueness - Dr. Ali bin Muhammad Nasir al-Faqihi, Associate Professor - Library of Science and Governance, Madinah, Dar al-Uloom and al-Hikum, Syria
1 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Shashi - Dr. Mahfouz Al-Rahman Zainallah - N Library of Science and Governance - Madinah
1 (0%)Sunnah by Ibn Abi Assem - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
1 (0%)Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
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