اَبِیْ اَیُّوْبَ الْاَنْصَارِیِّ
· BH - AH
Thiqah Thabt · ثقة ثبت
Narrations
662
Books
148
Teachers
84
Students
149
Identity
Real Name (الاسم الحقيقي) ·اَبِیْ اَیُّوْبَ الْاَنْصَارِیِّ
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 - 662
Distribution By Collection
Al Muajam Al Kabir Tibrani
46 (7%)The Great Dictionary of Al-Tabarani - T. Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Al-Salafi - N Dar Revival of Arab Heritage
43 (6%)The objective predicate of the ten books - T - N
30 (5%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Sunan and Al-Musnad (Contemporary) - T - N
27 (4%)Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanble
22 (3%)Majma uz Zawaid Wa Manba ul Fawaid
22 (3%)Musnad Al Shashi
21 (3%)Al-Musnad Al-Shashi - Dr. Mahfouz Al-Rahman Zainallah - N Library of Science and Governance - Madinah
21 (3%)Al Muajam Al Awsat Tibrani
14 (2%)Musnad of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal - Cordoba - T - N Cordoba Foundation - Cairo
12 (2%)Hilyah Al Awliya w Tabqat Al Sifaya
12 (2%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Baihaqee
11 (2%)Musnad Al Shammean
10 (2%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs - T. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
9 (1%)Shuab ul Iman
9 (1%)Al-Ihsan fi Taqreeb Sahih Ibn Hibban, an investigator - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Al-Risala Foundation, Beirut
9 (1%)Al Mustadrak Al Hakim Al Sahihain
9 (1%)Sunan Al Kubra Al Nasai
9 (1%)Sahih Ibn Hibban
9 (1%)Kitab Al Dua
8 (1%)Prayers for Al-Tabarani - T. Mustafa Abdul Qadir Atta - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiya - Beirut
8 (1%)Sharah Maani Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
8 (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
7 (1%)Sahih Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
7 (1%)Sharah Mushkil Al Aasaar Al Tahavi
7 (1%)Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs of Al-Hakim - T. Abu Abd al-Rahman Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i - Dar Al-Haramain
7 (1%)Sarah Al Sunnah Al Baghvi
7 (1%)Aamali Al Muhamli - Riwayat Ibn Yahyaa Albaye
6 (1%)Musannaf Abdul Razzaq
6 (1%)Sunan Dar Al Qutni
6 (1%)Sunan Darmi
5 (1%)Marfa Al Sunan wl Aasaar
5 (1%)Jami at Tirmidhi
5 (1%)Musnad Sahih Mustakhraj Ala Sahih Muslim
5 (1%)Sahih Bukhari
4 (1%)The Great Sunnahs of Al-Bayhaqi - T - N Dar Al-Fikr
4 (1%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (with comments by Mahmoud Khalil) - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. The Islamic Bureau - Beirut
4 (1%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Awamah) - T. Muhammad Awamah - Dar Al-Qibla
4 (1%)The workbook, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani, Research Center, Dar al-Taseel, Dar al-Taseel, Cairo
4 (1%)Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah - Verified, commented on, and extracted his hadiths and presented to him by: Dr. Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami - N. The Islamic Bureau
4 (1%)Musnad Ibne Abi Shaibah
4 (1%)Musannaf Ibne Abi Shaibah
4 (1%)Musnad Ibn Al Jad
3 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Bain Al Imaman Al Shafi w Abi Hanifa w Ashaba
3 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Awwal
3 (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
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%)Sunan Al-Darimi - T. Fawaz Ahmed Zumrli, Khaled Al-Saba Al-Alami - Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi - Beirut
3 (0%)Al Tahqeeq Fi Ahadith Al Khilaf
3 (0%)Bulugh Al Maram
3 (0%)Musnad Al Shahab
3 (0%)Musnad Abu Dawood Tayalisi
3 (0%)Al-Imam Fi Marfa Ahadith Al-Ahkam
3 (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)
3 (0%)Al Muajam Al Sagheer Tibrani
3 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood
3 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah
3 (0%)Al Sunan Al Sagheer Al Baihaqee
3 (0%)Al Targeeb Fi Fazail Al Amal w Sawab Zalik
3 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Khraiti
3 (0%)Mukhtsar Sunan Abu Dawood Al Munzari
3 (0%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail Al Nasai
3 (0%)Sahih Muslim
3 (0%)Al-Jami Al-Sahih Al-Mukhtasar, I Al-Shaab - T - N Dar Al-Shaab - Cairo
3 (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
3 (0%)Sahih Ibn Khuzamia
3 (0%)The Book of Prayers by Ibn Hibban - T - N, Ahmad Al-Khudari Library
2 (0%)Shama'il Muhammadiyah / Shumail Tirmidhi
2 (0%)Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
2 (0%)Musnad Abd Bin Hameed
2 (0%)Masnad Humaidi
2 (0%)Al Dawat Al Kabir Al Baihaqee
2 (0%)Sunan Al Masoor Al Shafi
2 (0%)Al Mantaqi Min Kitab Makarim Al Ikhlaq w Maa Lia
2 (0%)Al Aahad w Al Masani
2 (0%)Al Zohod w Al Riqaiq
2 (0%)Kitab Al Shriya
2 (0%)Fawaid Tammam
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%)Amal Al Yoom w Al Lail
2 (0%)Al Jaami Al Kabir Al Suyuti
2 (0%)Manaqib Ameer Al Momineen Ali Bin Abi Talib Moghazli
2 (0%)Al Mujalis w Jawahir Al Ailm
2 (0%)Al Mukhlisyat w Ajza Akhari Abi Tahir Al Mukhlis
2 (0%)Jamia Al-Sahihain Bhazaf Al-Maad w Al-Tarq
2 (0%)Daeef Al Targheeb w Al Tarheeb
2 (0%)Aamali Wahi Al Marufa Bil Aamali Al Khmasia
2 (0%)Mukhtsar Al Ahkam = Mustakhraj Al Tusi Al Jamia Al Tirmzi
2 (0%)Al Musnad Al Mustakhraj Ealaa Sahih Al Imam Muslim
2 (0%)Mawarid Al Zaman Iilaa Zawayid Ibn Hibban
2 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Al Harsi
2 (0%)Mukhtsar Sahih Muslim Al Munzari
2 (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
2 (0%)Musnad Ahmed as a director - T. Shuaib Al-Arnaout - Adel Morshed, and others - by Al-Resala Foundation
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%)Musnad Abi Dawood Al-Tayalisi - T - N Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
2 (0%)Sunan Ibn Majah - T. Mahmoud Khalil - N. Abi Al-Maati Library
2 (0%)The workbook Ibn Abi Shaybah (Al-Fikr) - Dar Al-Fikr - Dar Al-Fikr
2 (0%)Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal. - The Research Office of the Thesaurus Society - The Islamic Thesaurus Society.
2 (0%)Juzz Alf Dinar Al Qotai
1 (0%)Tafseer Min Sunan Saeed Bin Mansoor
1 (0%)Ikhtsar Sahih Bukhari w Biyan Gharbia
1 (0%)Mota Malik al-Muhaqiq Muhammad Mustafa al-Adhami
1 (0%)Al Amali Ibn Bashran - Juz Sani
1 (0%)Al Mukhtsar Al Naseeh Fi Tahzeeb Al Kitab Al Jamia Al Sahih
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%)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%)Fazail Al Sahaba Al Ahmad Bin Hanble
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Shafi
1 (0%)Nawadar Al Asool Fi Marfa Al Hadith Al Rasool
1 (0%)Mukhtsar Qayam Al Lail w Qayam Ramzan w Qayam Al Wittar
1 (0%)Bahar ul Fawaid Al Mashhoor Bmani Al Akhbar
1 (0%)Al Fawaid Al Shahir Bial Ghilaniat
1 (0%)Al Tahoor
1 (0%)Sunan Abi Dawood - T. Muhammed Muhyiddin Abd al-Hamid - N. Al-Asriyyah Library, Sidon - Beirut
1 (0%)The Great Mosque - Sunan Al-Tirmidhi - T. Bashar Awad Maarouf - Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami - 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%)Al-Sunan Al-Kubra by Al-Bayhaqi, and in its appendage is Al-Jawhar Al-Naqi - T - N Majlis Al-Maarif Al-Maarif - Hyderabad
1 (0%)Al-Sunan Al-Sughra by Al-Bayhaqi Al-Munna Al-Kubra Explanation and Takhreej - T - N Al-Rushd Library
1 (0%)Kitab Al Jihad Ibn Abi Asim
1 (0%)Kitab Al Sunnah Abu Bakkar Bin Abi Asim
1 (0%)Al Adab Al Mufrad
1 (0%)Al Eman Ibn Minda
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana - T. Ayman bin Aref Al-Dimashqi - Dar Al-Maarifa - Beirut
1 (0%)Musnad Abi Awana
1 (0%)Knowledge of the Sunnahs and Athar of Al-Bayhaqi - T. Sayed Kasravi Hassan - Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut
1 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Arabi
1 (0%)Al Muajam Ibn Al Maqree
1 (0%)Muwatta Malik, narrated by Abu Musab al-Zuhri
1 (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.
1 (0%)Etal Al Qaloob
1 (0%)Sunan Nasai
1 (0%)Makarim Al Ikhlaq Al Tibrani
1 (0%)Sharah Mazahib Ahle Al Sunnah
1 (0%)Al-Sunan (known as Al-Sunan Al-Kubra) by Al-Nasa'i - Dar Al-Taseel Research Center - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
1 (0%)Al Tahyuriyat
1 (0%)Tahdhib Aasaar
1 (0%)Masnad Al Royani
1 (0%)Masawi Al Akhlaq Wamadhumumaha
1 (0%)Musnad Ibn al-Jaad - T Abd al-Mahdi bin Abd al-Qadir bin Abd al-Hadi - N Al-Falah Library
1 (0%)Al-Musnad Al-Darami - Research Center, Dar Al-Taseel - Dar Al-Taseel - Cairo
1 (0%)Al Khlafiyt Al Baihaqee
1 (0%)Isbat Azab Al Qabar
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Azam Abi Hanifa Nauman Bin Sabit Al Kufi Ibn Khusro
1 (0%)Musnad Imam Abi Hanifa Riwayat Abi Naeem
1 (0%)Biyan Al-Waham w Al-Yaham Fi Kitab Al-Ahkam
1 (0%)Makarem Al-Akhlaq by Al-Tabarani - T. Abu Bastam Muhammad bin Mustafa - Dar Al-Bashaer Al-Islamiya - Beirut
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