اَبِیْ مُوْسیٰ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
3,678
Books
218
Teachers
526
Students
406
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·اَبِیْ مُوْسیٰ
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 - 3,678
Distribution By Collection
The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
247 (7%)Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
246 (7%)Musnad e Bazzar
136 (4%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
117 (3%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
116 (3%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
102 (3%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
100 (3%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
98 (3%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
92 (3%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
89 (2%)Sahih Bukhari
77 (2%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
74 (2%)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
74 (2%)Masnad Al Royani
71 (2%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
67 (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
64 (2%)Sahih Muslim
63 (2%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
56 (2%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
55 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
53 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
53 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
53 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana
52 (1%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
52 (1%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
47 (1%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
46 (1%)Shuab ul Iman
37 (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
33 (1%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
31 (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
30 (1%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
29 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
29 (1%)Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi
29 (1%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
29 (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
28 (1%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
27 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
27 (1%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
26 (1%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
26 (1%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
25 (1%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
25 (1%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
24 (1%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
23 (1%)Sunan Nasai
23 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah
22 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood
21 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
20 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
19 (1%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
18 (0%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
18 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
18 (0%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
18 (0%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
17 (0%)Musnad Abd Bin Hameed
16 (0%)Jami at Tirmidhi
15 (0%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
15 (0%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
13 (0%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
12 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
12 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
12 (0%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
12 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
11 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
11 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Al Harsi
10 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
10 (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
10 (0%)Hadith Siraj
10 (0%)Kitab Al Toheed w Isbat Sifaat Al Rab Azwjal
10 (0%)Al Maqsad Al Ala Fi Zawaid Abu Yaalaa
10 (0%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
10 (0%)Al Aadab Al Baihaqee
9 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
9 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
9 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
9 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
9 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
9 (0%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
9 (0%)Sunan Darmi
8 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
8 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
8 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
8 (0%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
8 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
8 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
8 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
8 (0%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi - T - N Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
8 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
8 (0%)Al-Sunan Al-Sughra by Al-Bayhaqi Al-Munna Al-Kubra Explanation and Takhreej - T - N Al-Rushd Library
7 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
7 (0%)Al Eman Ibn Minda
7 (0%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
7 (0%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
7 (0%)Al Muajam Al Sagheer Tibrani
7 (0%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
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%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
6 (0%)Tareekh Al-Madina
6 (0%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
6 (0%)Hijatul Wadah Ibn Hazam
6 (0%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
5 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
5 (0%)Hadith Zohri
5 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min al-Musnad al-Mashkol - T - N Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
5 (0%)Muajam Ibn Askar
5 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
5 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Al Sunnan Al Musnad Ibn Al Jarood
5 (0%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
5 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min Al-Sunan Al-Musnadah - T. Abu Ishaq Al-Huwaini - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
5 (0%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
5 (0%)Musnad Siraj
5 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
4 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
4 (0%)Musnad Al Shammean
4 (0%)Sunan Al Wardah Fi Al Fittan
4 (0%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
4 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
4 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
4 (0%)Abbreviated Sahih Al-Imam Al-Bukhari - T. Muhammad Nasir Al-Din Al-Albani - Al-Ma'arif Library for Publishing and Distribution, Riyadh
4 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
4 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
4 (0%)Adab Ibn Abi Shaibah
4 (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
4 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
3 (0%)Masnad Humaidi
3 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
3 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Tibrani
3 (0%)Musnad Abi Hanifa Al Haskafi
3 (0%)Khulq Afeal Al Ebad Al Bukhari
3 (0%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
3 (0%)Rad Ala Al Jaheem Al Darmi
3 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
3 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
3 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
3 (0%)Al Kifaya Fi Ailm Al Riwayh Al Khatib Al Baghdadi
3 (0%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
3 (0%)Al Royah Dar Al Qutni
3 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
3 (0%)Masawi Al Akhlaq Wamadhumumaha
3 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
3 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Ibn Khusro
3 (0%)Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem
3 (0%)Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
3 (0%)The Book of the Sunnah Abi Asim (And with him Shades of Paradise in Takhreej Al-Sunnah by: Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani) - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - The Islamic Office
3 (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
3 (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
3 (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.
3 (0%)Makarem Al-Akhlaq by Al-Tabarani - T. Abu Bastam Muhammad bin Mustafa - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
3 (0%)Bahr al-Fawa’id (famous for Ma’ani al-Akhbar) by al-Kalabadhi - directed by Kamal al-Din Zaki - Dar al-Salam - Cairo
3 (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
3 (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)
3 (0%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
3 (0%)Manaqib Ameer Al Momineen Ali Bin Abi Talib Moghazli
2 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
2 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
2 (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
2 (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
2 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
2 (0%)Min Hadith Khithima Bin Suleiman
2 (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
2 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
2 (0%)Kitab Al Zohod
2 (0%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
2 (0%)Ahadith Al Shoyoukh Al Seeqat (Al Mushaykhat Al Kubra)
2 (0%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
2 (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
2 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
2 (0%)The substantive refinement of Hilyat al-Awliya', by Hafiz Abi Naim al-Asbhani - T - N Dar Taibah for Publishing and Distribution -
2 (0%)Al Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
2 (0%)Al Etaqad w Al Hidayah Ilah Sabeel Al Reshad
2 (0%)Kitab al-Tawhid by Ibn Khuzaymah - T. Samir bin Amin al-Zuhairi - Dar al-Mughni - Riyadh
2 (0%)Al Qaza Wl Qadar
2 (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
2 (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
2 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
2 (0%)Abbreviated Sahih Al-Bukhari - T. Ali bin Nayef Al-Shahoud - N
2 (0%)Istadrakat Al Baes w Al Nushur
2 (0%)Al Tahyuriyat
2 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo
2 (0%)Musnad Al Farooq
1 (0%)Al Sunnah Al Maroozi
1 (0%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
1 (0%)The Ten Women of Imam Al-Nisa'i - Third Edition - T. Ali bin Nayef Al-Shahoud - N
1 (0%)Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya
1 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
1 (0%)Al Aasaar Abu Yousaf
1 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
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%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
1 (0%)Sharah Mazahib Ahle Al Sunnah
1 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour Habib al-Rahman al-Azami, Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut.
1 (0%)Al Baes w Al Nushur Al Baihaqee
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%)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%)Sunnah by Ibn Abi Assem - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
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-Shashi - Dr. Mahfouz Al-Rahman Zainallah - N Library of Science and Governance - Madinah
1 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Al Hadith Al Rasool
1 (0%)Fazail Al Oqat
1 (0%)Al Madkhal Iilaa Al Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
1 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Shafi
1 (0%)Proof of the Torment of the Grave and the Question of the Two Angels by Al-Bayhaqi - T. Al-Maktab Al-Salafi for Heritage Investigation - N. Islamic Heritage Library - Cairo
1 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
1 (0%)Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm
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%)Bulugh Al Maram
1 (0%)Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Qayam Al Lail w Qayam Ramzan w Qayam Al Wittar
1 (0%)Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Musnad Ibn al-Jaad - T Abd al-Mahdi bin Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Hadi - N Al-Falah Library
1 (0%)Musnad Al Shashi
1 (0%)Kitab Al Fittan
1 (0%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
1 (0%)Single Literature - T. Essam Musa Hadi - Dar Al-Siddiq - Jubail - Saudi Arabia
1 (0%)Al Zohod w Al Riqaiq
1 (0%)Isbat Azab Al Qabar
1 (0%)Kitab Al Jihad Ibn Abi Asim
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