أَبِي بَكْرٍ،
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
798
Books
153
Teachers
247
Students
308
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·أَبِي بَكْرٍ،
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 - 798
Distribution By Collection
Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
105 (13%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
61 (8%)Musnad e Bazzar
48 (6%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
26 (3%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
25 (3%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
24 (3%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
24 (3%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
18 (2%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
17 (2%)Musnad Abu Bakkar Siddique
17 (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
13 (2%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
13 (2%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Bukhari - according to the numbering of Fath Al-Bari - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
12 (2%)Kitab Al Fittan
12 (2%)Al Maqsad Al Ala Fi Zawaid Abu Yaalaa
11 (1%)Al-Fitan by Naeem bin Hammad - Prof. Dr. Suhail Zakkar - Dar Al-Fikr
11 (1%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
10 (1%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
8 (1%)Shuab ul Iman
8 (1%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
8 (1%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
8 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
8 (1%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
8 (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
7 (1%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
6 (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
6 (1%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
6 (1%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
6 (1%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
6 (1%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
6 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
6 (1%)Sahih Bukhari
6 (1%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
5 (1%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
5 (1%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Al Hadith Al Rasool
5 (1%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
5 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
5 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
5 (1%)Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi
4 (1%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
4 (1%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
4 (1%)Sahih Muslim
4 (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)
4 (1%)Sunan Darmi
4 (1%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
4 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
4 (1%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
4 (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
4 (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
4 (1%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
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%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
3 (0%)Sunan Nasai
3 (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
3 (0%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
3 (0%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
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 Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
3 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
3 (0%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
3 (0%)Al Amwal Abu Ubaida
3 (0%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
3 (0%)Al Abana Al Kubra Ibn Betta
3 (0%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
3 (0%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
3 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
2 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood
2 (0%)Jami at Tirmidhi
2 (0%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
2 (0%)Musnad Ibne Abi Shaibah
2 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
2 (0%)Al Aasaar Abu Yousaf
2 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
2 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
2 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
2 (0%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
2 (0%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
2 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
2 (0%)Kitab Al Muajam
2 (0%)Musnad Al Shashi
2 (0%)Karamat Al Oliya Allah Azwajal
2 (0%)Musnad Siraj
2 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
2 (0%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
2 (0%)Jamia Biyan Al Ailm w Fazila
2 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
2 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
2 (0%)Al Tahyuriyat
2 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
2 (0%)Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo
2 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Shashi - Dr. Mahfouz Al-Rahman Zainallah - N Library of Science and Governance - Madinah
2 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
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%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi - T - N Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
2 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
2 (0%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
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%)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%)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%)Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
2 (0%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
2 (0%)Fazail Al-Khulfa Al-Rashidin
1 (0%)Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
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%)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%)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%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
1 (0%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
1 (0%)Masnad Al Royani
1 (0%)Tareekh Al-Madina
1 (0%)Al Jamia Fi Al Ahkam Ibn Wahab
1 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
1 (0%)Hijatul Wadah Ibn Hazam
1 (0%)Hadith Siraj
1 (0%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
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%)Sifatul Jannah
1 (0%)Takhreej Al Ahadith Al Marfua Al Musnad Fi Kitab Al Tarikh Al Kabir Al Bukhari
1 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
1 (0%)Musnad Al Farooq
1 (0%)Aamali Ibn Samaon
1 (0%)The Ten Women of Imam Al-Nisa'i - Third Edition - T. Ali bin Nayef Al-Shahoud - N
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%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
1 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
1 (0%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Kitab Al Zohod
1 (0%)Ahadith Al Shoyoukh Al Seeqat (Al Mushaykhat Al Kubra)
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Shafi
1 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
1 (0%)Sunan Al Wardah Fi Al Fittan
1 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
1 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi with footnotes (corresponding version) - T. Muhammad bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Turki, in cooperation with the Research Center in Dar Hajar - Dar Hajar for Printing and Publishing - Cairo
1 (0%)Kitab al-Tawhid by Ibn Khuzaymah - T. Samir bin Amin al-Zuhairi - Dar al-Mughni - Riyadh
1 (0%)Masawi Al Akhlaq Wamadhumumaha
1 (0%)Riaz ul Jannat Ba Takhreej Asool Al Sunnah
1 (0%)Juzz Ibn Jurayj
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
1 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
1 (0%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
1 (0%)Kitab Al Aasaar Al Shabani
1 (0%)Zakir Al-Quran w Riwayatihim Bazahum Baza
1 (0%)Musnad Al-Muwatta for Al Jawhari
1 (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 Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
1 (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
1 (0%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
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