عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُغَفَّلٍ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
632
Books
133
Teachers
89
Students
90
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُغَفَّلٍ
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 - 632
Distribution By Collection
The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
80 (13%)Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
31 (5%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
27 (4%)Masnad Al Royani
26 (4%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
14 (2%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
12 (2%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
12 (2%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
12 (2%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
11 (2%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
10 (2%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
10 (2%)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
10 (2%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
9 (1%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
9 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana
9 (1%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
9 (1%)Sunan Nasai
9 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
9 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
9 (1%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
9 (1%)Sahih Bukhari
9 (1%)Sunan Darmi
8 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood
8 (1%)Jami at Tirmidhi
8 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah
8 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
8 (1%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
8 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
8 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
8 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
8 (1%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
8 (1%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
7 (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
7 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
6 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
6 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
5 (1%)Musnad Abd Bin Hameed
5 (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
5 (1%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
5 (1%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
5 (1%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
5 (1%)Shuab ul Iman
5 (1%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
4 (1%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
4 (1%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
4 (1%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
4 (1%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
4 (1%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
4 (1%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
4 (1%)Sahih Muslim
4 (1%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
4 (1%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
3 (0%)Al Muajam Al Sagheer Tibrani
3 (0%)Kitab Al Fittan
3 (0%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
3 (0%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
3 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
3 (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
3 (0%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
3 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
2 (0%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
2 (0%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
2 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
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%)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
2 (0%)Musnad Al Shammean
2 (0%)Musnad Siraj
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%)Al Mantaqi Min Al Sunnan Al Musnad Ibn Al Jarood
2 (0%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
2 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min al-Musnad al-Mashkol - T - N Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
2 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Al Khlal
2 (0%)Hadith Siraj
2 (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)
2 (0%)Shama'il Muhammadiyah / Shumail Tirmidhi
2 (0%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
2 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
2 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
2 (0%)Al-Muntaqa min Al-Sunan Al-Musnadah - T. Abu Ishaq Al-Huwaini - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
2 (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
2 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Sani
1 (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
1 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
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%)Khulq Afeal Al Ebad Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
1 (0%)Al Muajam Abu Yaalaa
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%)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%)The substantive refinement of Hilyat al-Awliya', by Hafiz Abi Naim al-Asbhani - T - N Dar Taibah for Publishing and Distribution -
1 (0%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
1 (0%)In order to seek the additions of Musnad Al-Harith - T. Mosaad Abdul Hamid Muhammad Al-Saadani - Dar Al-Tala'i for Publishing, Distribution and Export
1 (0%)The Book of Prayers by Ibn Hibban - T - N, Ahmad Al-Khudari Library
1 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
1 (0%)Al Baes w Al Nushur Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Al Aadab Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Al-Fitan by Naeem bin Hammad - Prof. Dr. Suhail Zakkar - Dar Al-Fikr
1 (0%)Al Asma w Al Sifaat
1 (0%)Al Qaza Wl Qadar
1 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
1 (0%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
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%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
1 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
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 Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
1 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
1 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Qayam Al Lail w Qayam Ramzan w Qayam Al Wittar
1 (0%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
1 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
1 (0%)Hadith Zohri
1 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
1 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
1 (0%)Tareekh Al-Madina
1 (0%)Bulugh Al Maram
1 (0%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
1 (0%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
1 (0%)Al Bar w Al Salah
1 (0%)Kitab Al Imama Wal Radi Ala Al Rrafidat
1 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani (Qata Min Masaneed Min Asma Abdullah)
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
1 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
1 (0%)Istadrakat Al Baes w Al Nushur
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
1 (0%)Al Amwal Abu Ubaida
1 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
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