النَّبِیِّ مِثْلَہُ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
1,611
Books
151
Teachers
59
Students
308
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·النَّبِیِّ مِثْلَہُ
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 - 1,611
Distribution By Collection
The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
371 (23%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
98 (6%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
97 (6%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
70 (4%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
58 (4%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
42 (3%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
40 (2%)Kitab Al Dua
31 (2%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
31 (2%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
31 (2%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
31 (2%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
31 (2%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
26 (2%)Tahdhib Aasaar
24 (1%)Musnad Al Shammean
24 (1%)Masnad Humaidi
24 (1%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Al Harsi
21 (1%)Musnad Ishaq Bin Rahiviyah
20 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
18 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
17 (1%)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
17 (1%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
17 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana
15 (1%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
15 (1%)Sahih Muslim
15 (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
15 (1%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
13 (1%)Musnad Imam Shafi
12 (1%)Kitab Al Ezma
12 (1%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
11 (1%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
11 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
11 (1%)Musnad Ibn al-Jaad - T Abd al-Mahdi bin Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Hadi - N Al-Falah Library
10 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
10 (1%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
9 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood
9 (1%)Hadith Siraj
9 (1%)Kitab Al Jihad Ibn Abi Asim
9 (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 (0%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
8 (0%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
8 (0%)Sunan Darmi
8 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
8 (0%)Musnad Siraj
7 (0%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
7 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
6 (0%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
6 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Ibn Khusro
6 (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
6 (0%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
6 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
5 (0%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
5 (0%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
5 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
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%)Jami at Tirmidhi
4 (0%)Al-Bukhari's singular literature - T. Ali Abdel-Basit Mazyad - and Ali Abdul-Maqsoud Radwan - Al-Khanji Library - Egypt
4 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
4 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
4 (0%)Masawi Al Akhlaq Wamadhumumaha
4 (0%)Makarim morals for cartography - Dr. Suad Suleiman Al-Khandaqawi - N
4 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
4 (0%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
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%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
3 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
3 (0%)Juzz Alf Dinar Al Qotai
3 (0%)Al Aasaar Abu Yousaf
3 (0%)Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
3 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah
3 (0%)Sunan Al Masoor Al Shafi
3 (0%)Kitab Al Fittan
3 (0%)Al Tahyuriyat
3 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
3 (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
3 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
3 (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
3 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
2 (0%)Sunan Nasai
2 (0%)Musnad e Bazzar
2 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
2 (0%)Masnad Al Royani
2 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Tarq Hadith Min Kazib Ala Mutaemmdan
2 (0%)Sahih Bukhari
2 (0%)Al Muajam Abu Yaalaa
2 (0%)Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya
2 (0%)Al Sunnah Al Maroozi
2 (0%)Al Bar w Al Salah
2 (0%)Rad Ala Al Jaheem Al Darmi
2 (0%)Al Tahoor
2 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Musnad Al Shashi
2 (0%)Aamali Ibn Samaon
2 (0%)Hadith Zohri
2 (0%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
2 (0%)Juzz Al Qurah Khlaf Imam Bukhari
2 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Ahkam Ibn Wahab
2 (0%)Tareekh Al-Madina
2 (0%)Salat ul Eiddain Al Muha Mali
2 (0%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
2 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani (Qata Min Masaneed Min Asma Abdullah)
2 (0%)Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem
2 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Shashi - Dr. Mahfouz Al-Rahman Zainallah - N Library of Science and Governance - Madinah
2 (0%)Al-Sunan Al-Sughra by Al-Bayhaqi Al-Munna Al-Kubra Explanation and Takhreej - T - N Al-Rushd Library
2 (0%)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 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
2 (0%)Single Literature - T. Essam Musa Hadi - Dar Al-Siddiq - Jubail - Saudi Arabia
2 (0%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
2 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Hadith Ibn Wahab
1 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
1 (0%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
1 (0%)Manaqib Ameer Al Momineen Ali Bin Abi Talib Moghazli
1 (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
1 (0%)Sunnah by Ibn Abi Assem - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
1 (0%)Al Qaza Wl Qadar
1 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
1 (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
1 (0%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
1 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
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%)Kitab Al Ghurbah
1 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
1 (0%)Makarem Al-Akhlaq by Al-Tabarani - T. Abu Bastam Muhammad bin Mustafa - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
1 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
1 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min al-Musnad al-Mashkol - T - N Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
1 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
1 (0%)Al Amwal Abu Ubaida
1 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Al Sunnan Al Musnad Ibn Al Jarood
1 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
1 (0%)Kitab Bar Al Waldain Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Al-Fitan by Naeem bin Hammad - Prof. Dr. Suhail Zakkar - Dar Al-Fikr
1 (0%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
1 (0%)Qurah Al Aeneen Bar Raffa Yaddain Fi Salah
1 (0%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
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%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
1 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Tibrani
1 (0%)Adab Ibn Abi Shaibah
1 (0%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
1 (0%)Al Aadab Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
1 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
1 (0%)Zakir Al-Quran w Riwayatihim Bazahum Baza
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo
1 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
1 (0%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
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