أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ،
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
2,407
Books
203
Teachers
287
Students
553
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ،
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 - 2,407
Distribution By Collection
Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
311 (13%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
181 (8%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
111 (5%)Musnad Al Shammean
97 (4%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
80 (3%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
65 (3%)Shuab ul Iman
56 (2%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
51 (2%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
50 (2%)Musnad e Bazzar
50 (2%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
49 (2%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
43 (2%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
39 (2%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
39 (2%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
36 (1%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
30 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
30 (1%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
29 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
24 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
23 (1%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
21 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
21 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
20 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
18 (1%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
18 (1%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
17 (1%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
17 (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
17 (1%)Al Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
16 (1%)The substantive refinement of Hilyat al-Awliya', by Hafiz Abi Naim al-Asbhani - T - N Dar Taibah for Publishing and Distribution -
16 (1%)Sunan Darmi
16 (1%)Encouragement in the virtues of deeds and the reward for that - T. Muhammad Hassan Muhammad Hassan Ismail - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut - Lebanon
16 (1%)Musnad Al Shahab
15 (1%)Kitab Al Dua
15 (1%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
15 (1%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
15 (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
14 (1%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
14 (1%)Tahdhib Aasaar
14 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
14 (1%)Kitab Al Zohod
13 (1%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
13 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
13 (1%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
13 (1%)Musnad Ibne Abi Shaibah
12 (0%)Musnad Abd Bin Hameed
12 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
12 (0%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
12 (0%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
11 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana
11 (0%)Al Zohod w Al Riqaiq
11 (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
11 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
11 (0%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
11 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
11 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
10 (0%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
10 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
10 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
10 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Al Hadith Al Rasool
10 (0%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
10 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
9 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
9 (0%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
9 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
8 (0%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
8 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
8 (0%)Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi
8 (0%)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
8 (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)
8 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
7 (0%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
7 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
7 (0%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
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%)Anecdotes of assets in the hadiths of the Messenger - the chained version - T. Ismail bin Ibrahim Metwally Awad - Imam Al-Bukhari Library
6 (0%)Al Muajam Al Sagheer Tibrani
6 (0%)Al Qaza Wl Qadar
6 (0%)Muajam Ibn Askar
6 (0%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
6 (0%)Mukhtsar Qayam Al Lail w Qayam Ramzan w Qayam Al Wittar
6 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
6 (0%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
6 (0%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
6 (0%)Bahr al-Fawa’id (famous for Ma’ani al-Akhbar) by al-Kalabadhi - directed by Kamal al-Din Zaki - Dar al-Salam - Cairo
5 (0%)Al Madkhal Iilaa Al Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
5 (0%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
5 (0%)The Names and Attributes of Al-Bayhaqi - T.A. Dr.. Abdul Rahman Amira - N Dar Al-Jeel - Beirut
5 (0%)Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
5 (0%)Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm
5 (0%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
5 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
5 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
5 (0%)Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
4 (0%)Masawi Al Akhlaq Wamadhumumaha
4 (0%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
4 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
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%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
4 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
4 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
4 (0%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
4 (0%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
4 (0%)Al Qinaat
4 (0%)Sunan Al Wardah Fi Al Fittan
4 (0%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
4 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
4 (0%)Kitab Al Qadar Al Firyabi
4 (0%)Bulugh Al Maram
4 (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%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
3 (0%)Al Aadab Al Baihaqee
3 (0%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
3 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
3 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Tibrani
3 (0%)Tazeem Qadar Al Salah
3 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
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%)Sunnah by Ibn Abi Assem - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
3 (0%)Makarem Al-Akhlaq by Al-Tabarani - T. Abu Bastam Muhammad bin Mustafa - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
3 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Hadith Ibn Wahab
3 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
3 (0%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
3 (0%)Fazail Al-Khulfa Al-Rashidin
3 (0%)Zakir Al-Quran w Riwayatihim Bazahum Baza
3 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
3 (0%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
3 (0%)Masnad Humaidi
3 (0%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
2 (0%)Fawaid Abi Muhammad Al Fakhi
2 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
2 (0%)Rad Ala Al Jaheem Al Darmi
2 (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
2 (0%)Aamali Ibn Samaon
2 (0%)Ahadith Al Shoyoukh Al Seeqat (Al Mushaykhat Al Kubra)
2 (0%)Min Hadith Khithima Bin Suleiman
2 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Ahkam Ibn Wahab
2 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
2 (0%)Kitab Al Jihad Ibn Abi Asim
2 (0%)Tareekh Daryah
2 (0%)Kitab Al Toheed w Isbat Sifaat Al Rab Azwjal
2 (0%)Al Fard Dar Al Qutni
2 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
2 (0%)Tafseer Min Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
2 (0%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
2 (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
2 (0%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
2 (0%)Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
2 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
2 (0%)Al Muajam Abu Yaalaa
2 (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
2 (0%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
2 (0%)Sharah Mazahib Ahle Al Sunnah
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%)Al Baes w Al Nushur Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Al-Sunan Al-Sughra by Al-Bayhaqi Al-Munna Al-Kubra Explanation and Takhreej - T - N Al-Rushd Library
2 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
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%)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
2 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
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%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
2 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
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%)Sunan Abi Dawood
2 (0%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
2 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
2 (0%)Kitab Al Fittan
2 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
2 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
2 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Al Harsi
1 (0%)Al Sunnah Al Maroozi
1 (0%)Hadith Siraj
1 (0%)Al Tahoor
1 (0%)Adab Ibn Abi Shaibah
1 (0%)Kitab Al Imama Wal Radi Ala Al Rrafidat
1 (0%)Musnad Ishaq Bin Rahiviyah
1 (0%)Makarim morals for cartography - Dr. Suad Suleiman Al-Khandaqawi - N
1 (0%)Al Bar w Al Salah
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
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%)Sunan Al Masoor Al Shafi
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%)Al-Muntaqqa min al-Sunan al-Musnad by Ibn al-Jaroud - T. Abdullah Omar al-Baroudi - n The Cultural Book Foundation - Beirut
1 (0%)Jami at Tirmidhi
1 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo
1 (0%)Kitab al-Tawhid by Ibn Khuzaymah - T. Samir bin Amin al-Zuhairi - Dar al-Mughni - Riyadh
1 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
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%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
1 (0%)Al Tahyuriyat
1 (0%)Kitab Bar Al Waldain Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Sifatul Jannah
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%)Bid’ah and its Prohibition by Ibn Waddah Al-Qurtubi - T. Muhammad Ahmad Dahman - Dar Al-Safa
1 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour Habib al-Rahman al-Azami, Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut.
1 (0%)Al Badah w Al Nihaya
1 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Al Sunnan Al Musnad Ibn Al Jarood
1 (0%)Al Amwal Abu Ubaida
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi - T - N Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem
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