أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
827
Books
149
Teachers
141
Students
165
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ
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 - 827
Distribution By Collection
The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
137 (17%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
32 (4%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
30 (4%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
28 (3%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
26 (3%)Sahih Muslim
20 (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
18 (2%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
18 (2%)Shuab ul Iman
14 (2%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
14 (2%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
13 (2%)Sahih Bukhari
12 (1%)Mota Malik al-Muhaqiq Muhammad Mustafa al-Adhami
12 (1%)Mota-i-Imam Malik-ul-Haqiq Muhammad Fawad Abd al-Baqi
12 (1%)Al-Muwata Al-Muhaqiq Dr. Bashar Maruf
12 (1%)Muwatta Malik, narrated by Abu Musab al-Zuhri
11 (1%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
11 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
11 (1%)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
11 (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
11 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
11 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
10 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
10 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
9 (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
9 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
8 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
8 (1%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
8 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
8 (1%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
8 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood
7 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana
7 (1%)Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo
7 (1%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
6 (1%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
6 (1%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
6 (1%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
6 (1%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
6 (1%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
6 (1%)Hadith Siraj
6 (1%)Al Jamia Fi Al Hadith Ibn Wahab
5 (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
5 (1%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
5 (1%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
5 (1%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
5 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
5 (1%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
5 (1%)Al Jamia Fi Al Ahkam Ibn Wahab
5 (1%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
5 (1%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
5 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
4 (0%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
4 (0%)Musnad e Bazzar
4 (0%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
4 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
4 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
4 (0%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
4 (0%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
4 (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
3 (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
3 (0%)Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya
3 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
3 (0%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
3 (0%)Fawaid Abi Muhammad Al Fakhi
3 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
3 (0%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
3 (0%)Sunan Nasai
3 (0%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
3 (0%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
3 (0%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
3 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
3 (0%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
3 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah
3 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
3 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
2 (0%)Musnad Siraj
2 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
2 (0%)Ahadith Ismaeel Bin Jafar
2 (0%)Al Eman Ibn Minda
2 (0%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
2 (0%)Masawi Al Akhlaq Wamadhumumaha
2 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
2 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
2 (0%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
2 (0%)Muwatta Imam Malik Narrated by Muhammad bin Al-Hasan al-Shaybani
2 (0%)Musnad Al-Muwatta for Al Jawhari
2 (0%)Fazail Al Oqat
2 (0%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
2 (0%)Musnad Al Shammean
2 (0%)Musnad Ishaq Bin Rahiviyah
2 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
2 (0%)Sunan Darmi
1 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
1 (0%)Al Aasaar Abu Yousaf
1 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
1 (0%)Al Maqsad Al Ala Fi Zawaid Abu Yaalaa
1 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Sani
1 (0%)Al Royah Dar Al Qutni
1 (0%)The clear book in the Sunnah - T - N
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
1 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
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%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour - T. Abu Othman Saeed bin Mansour bin Shuba Al-Khorasani Al-Jawzjani - N Dar Al-Salafiyyah - India
1 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
1 (0%)Muajam Ibn Askar
1 (0%)Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
1 (0%)Sunnah by Ibn Abi Assem - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
1 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
1 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
1 (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
1 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour Habib al-Rahman al-Azami, Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut.
1 (0%)Al Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
1 (0%)Jami at Tirmidhi
1 (0%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
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%)Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm
1 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
1 (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
1 (0%)Hadith Zohri
1 (0%)Al-Bukhari's singular literature - T. Ali Abdel-Basit Mazyad - and Ali Abdul-Maqsoud Radwan - Al-Khanji Library - Egypt
1 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
1 (0%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
1 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
1 (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
1 (0%)Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
1 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
1 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Huraira
1 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
1 (0%)Kitab Al Jihad Ibn Abi Asim
1 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
1 (0%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
1 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
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%)Abbreviated Sahih Al-Bukhari - T. Ali bin Nayef Al-Shahoud - N
1 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
1 (0%)Al Amwal Abu Ubaida
1 (0%)Single Literature - T. Essam Musa Hadi - Dar Al-Siddiq - Jubail - Saudi Arabia
1 (0%)Al Tahyuriyat
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
1 (0%)Bulugh Al Maram
1 (0%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
1 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
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%)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%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
1 (0%)Khulq Afeal Al Ebad Al Bukhari
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%)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