عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
1,317
Books
144
Teachers
150
Students
134
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ
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 - 1,317
Distribution By Collection
The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
93 (7%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
80 (6%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
65 (5%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
64 (5%)Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
55 (4%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
52 (4%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
50 (4%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
50 (4%)The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal - T. Shuaib Al-Arna'ut - Adel Murshid, and others - N Al-Risala Foundation
42 (3%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
35 (3%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
35 (3%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
35 (3%)Al-Sunan Al-Kubra by Al-Bayhaqi, and in its appendage is Al-Jawhar Al-Naqi - T - N Majlis Al-Maarif Al-Maarif - Hyderabad
26 (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
23 (2%)Musnad Imam Ahmad - T. Ahmed Muhammad Shaker - Dar Al-Hadith - Cairo
23 (2%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
22 (2%)Al Hadith Al Mukhtarah
21 (2%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
20 (2%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
20 (2%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
19 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
19 (1%)Akhbar Makkah Fi Qadeem Al Dahar w Hadith Al Fakhi
16 (1%)The Compiled Book of Hadiths and Antiquities - T. Kamal Yusuf Al-Hout - Al-Rushd Library - Riyadh
15 (1%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
13 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
13 (1%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
12 (1%)Musnad e Bazzar
12 (1%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
12 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah - Dr. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - N Dar Revival of Arabic Books - Faisal Issa Al-Babi Al-Halabi
11 (1%)Tahdhib Aasaar
11 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah
11 (1%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
11 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
9 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
9 (1%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
8 (1%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
8 (1%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour Habib al-Rahman al-Azami, Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut.
8 (1%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
8 (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
8 (1%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
8 (1%)Jami at Tirmidhi
7 (1%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - Beirut
7 (1%)Musnad Abu Yaalaa
7 (1%)Sunan Darmi
6 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
6 (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
6 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood
6 (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
6 (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
6 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
6 (0%)Sunan Abi Daoud - T - N Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
6 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
6 (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
6 (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)
5 (0%)Al Muajam Al Sagheer Tibrani
5 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
5 (0%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
5 (0%)Anecdotes of assets in the hadiths of the Messenger - the chained version - T. Ismail bin Ibrahim Metwally Awad - Imam Al-Bukhari Library
5 (0%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
4 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
4 (0%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
4 (0%)Fawaid Abi Muhammad Al Fakhi
4 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
4 (0%)Mosua Al Tib Al Nabi
4 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
4 (0%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
4 (0%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
4 (0%)Al Kuna w Al Asma Lil Dulabi
3 (0%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
3 (0%)Kitab Al Fittan
3 (0%)Al Amwal Ibn Zanjoya
3 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
3 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
3 (0%)Al-Fitan by Naeem bin Hammad - Prof. Dr. Suhail Zakkar - Dar Al-Fikr
3 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
3 (0%)Sunan Saeed bin Mansour - T. Abu Othman Saeed bin Mansour bin Shuba Al-Khorasani Al-Jawzjani - N Dar Al-Salafiyyah - India
3 (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
3 (0%)Sunan Nasai
2 (0%)Shama'il Muhammadiyah / Shumail Tirmidhi
2 (0%)Musnad Imam Shafi
2 (0%)Shuab ul Iman
2 (0%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
2 (0%)Sharah Mazahib Ahle Al Sunnah
2 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
2 (0%)Sunan Al Masoor Al Shafi
2 (0%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
2 (0%)Al Minta Al Kubra Sharah w Takhreej Al Sunan Al Sugrah Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Baghya Al Bahas Un Zawaid Musnad Al Haris
2 (0%)Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm
2 (0%)Al Qatuf Al Dania Al Darmi
2 (0%)Al Madkhal Iilaa Al Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
2 (0%)Sharah Asool Etaqad Ahle Sunnah w Jamat
2 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Sani
2 (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
2 (0%)Al-Mujtaba from Al-Sunan = Al-Sunan Al-Sughra for Al-Nisa'i - T. Abdel Fattah Abu Ghuddah - N. Islamic Publications Office - Aleppo
2 (0%)Al-Sunan Al-Sughra by Al-Bayhaqi Al-Munna Al-Kubra Explanation and Takhreej - T - N Al-Rushd Library
2 (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
2 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
2 (0%)Counciling and the jewels of religious knowledge - T - N Dar Ibn Hazm - Lebanon - Beirut - 1423 A.H. - 2002 A.D.
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-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
2 (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
2 (0%)Al Badah w Al Nihaya
1 (0%)Akhbar Makkah Al Azraqi
1 (0%)Juzz Al Qurah Khlaf Imam Bukhari
1 (0%)Juzz Alf Dinar Al Qotai
1 (0%)Masnad Humaidi
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
1 (0%)Musnad Al Shashi
1 (0%)Al Maqsad Al Ala Fi Zawaid Abu Yaalaa
1 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
1 (0%)Musnad Al Farooq
1 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
1 (0%)Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
1 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
1 (0%)Al-Bukhari's singular literature - T. Ali Abdel-Basit Mazyad - and Ali Abdul-Maqsoud Radwan - Al-Khanji Library - Egypt
1 (0%)Musnad Ibne Abi Shaibah
1 (0%)Rad Ala Al Jaheem Al Darmi
1 (0%)Ahadith Al Shoyoukh Al Seeqat (Al Mushaykhat Al Kubra)
1 (0%)Kitab Al Ezma
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%)Kitab Al Amsal Fi Al Hadith Nabi
1 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
1 (0%)Al Sunnah Al Maroozi
1 (0%)Makarim morals for cartography - Dr. Suad Suleiman Al-Khandaqawi - N
1 (0%)Al Amwal Abu Ubaida
1 (0%)Musnad Al-Hamidi - T. Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azami - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya, Al-Mutanabi Library - Beirut, Cairo
1 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
1 (0%)Kitab Al Dua
1 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
1 (0%)Musnad Ishaq Bin Rahiviyah
1 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
1 (0%)Al Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
1 (0%)Masnad Al Royani
1 (0%)Interpretation from the Sunnahs of Saeed bin Mansour - an investigator - Dr. Saad bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Hamid - Dar Al-Sumaie for publication and distribution
1 (0%)Tafseer Min Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
1 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
1 (0%)Single Literature as a director - T. Muhammad Fouad Abdel-Baqi - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
1 (0%)Single Literature - T. Essam Musa Hadi - Dar Al-Siddiq - Jubail - Saudi Arabia
1 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Shashi - Dr. Mahfouz Al-Rahman Zainallah - N Library of Science and Governance - Madinah
1 (0%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
1 (0%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
1 (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
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