أَبُو خَالِدٍ؛
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
1,277
Books
110
Teachers
157
Students
86
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·أَبُو خَالِدٍ؛
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 - 1,277
Distribution By Collection
The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
262 (21%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
259 (20%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
253 (20%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
57 (4%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah - Verified, commented on, and extracted his hadiths and presented to him by: Dr. Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami - N. The Islamic Bureau
45 (4%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
44 (3%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
44 (3%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
16 (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
12 (1%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
11 (1%)Musnad e Bazzar
11 (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
10 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
10 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
9 (1%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
9 (1%)Al-Muntaqqa min al-Sunan al-Musnad by Ibn al-Jaroud - T. Abdullah Omar al-Baroudi - n The Cultural Book Foundation - Beirut
7 (1%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
7 (1%)Sunan Darmi
7 (1%)Al-Muntaqa min al-Musnad al-Mashkol - T - N Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
7 (1%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
7 (1%)Al Mantaqi Min Al Sunnan Al Musnad Ibn Al Jarood
7 (1%)Al-Muntaqa min Al-Sunan Al-Musnadah - T. Abu Ishaq Al-Huwaini - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
7 (1%)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.
7 (1%)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)
7 (1%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
6 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood
6 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
6 (0%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
6 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
6 (0%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
4 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
4 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
4 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
4 (0%)Musnad Ibn al-Jaad - T Abd al-Mahdi bin Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Hadi - N Al-Falah Library
4 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
4 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
3 (0%)Al-Mujtaba from Al-Sunan = Al-Sunan Al-Sughra for Al-Nisa'i - T. Abdel Fattah Abu Ghuddah - N. Islamic Publications Office - Aleppo
3 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
3 (0%)Sunan Nasai
3 (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
3 (0%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
3 (0%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
2 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
2 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
2 (0%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
2 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
2 (0%)Kitab Al Toheed w Isbat Sifaat Al Rab Azwjal
2 (0%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
2 (0%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
2 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah
2 (0%)Karamat Al Oliya Allah Azwajal
2 (0%)Adab Ibn Abi Shaibah
2 (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
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%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
2 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
2 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
2 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
2 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana
2 (0%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
2 (0%)Shuab ul Iman
2 (0%)Kitab al-Tawhid by Ibn Khuzaymah - T. Samir bin Amin al-Zuhairi - Dar al-Mughni - Riyadh
2 (0%)Sunnah by Ibn Abi Assem - T. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
1 (0%)Jami at Tirmidhi
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
1 (0%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
1 (0%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
1 (0%)Musnad Ibne Abi Shaibah
1 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
1 (0%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Musnad Al Farooq
1 (0%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
1 (0%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
1 (0%)Al Marseel Abu Dawood
1 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
1 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
1 (0%)Ahadith Al Shoyoukh Al Seeqat (Al Mushaykhat Al Kubra)
1 (0%)Kitab Al Zohod
1 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
1 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
1 (0%)Al Maqsad Al Ala Fi Zawaid Abu Yaalaa
1 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
1 (0%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Hadith Siraj
1 (0%)Hadith Zohri
1 (0%)Al Royah Dar Al Qutni
1 (0%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
1 (0%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
1 (0%)Juzz Ibn Jurayj
1 (0%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
1 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
1 (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
1 (0%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
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%)Sahih Muslim
1 (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
1 (0%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
1 (0%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
1 (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
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%)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
1 (0%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
1 (0%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
1 (0%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
1 (0%)The Resurrection and Resurrection of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Abu Asim Al-Shawami Al-Athari - Dar Al-Hijaz Library for Publishing and Distribution, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1 (0%)Correspondence to Abi Dawood - T. Abdullah bin Musaed Al-Zahrani - Dar Al-Sami'i - Riyadh
1 (0%)The Ten Women of Imam Al-Nisa'i - Third Edition - T. Ali bin Nayef Al-Shahoud - N
1 (0%)The Book of Prayers by Ibn Hibban - T - N, Ahmad Al-Khudari Library
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