1. Abu Hurayra Hurairah embraced Islam through Tufayl ibn 'Amr, the chieftain of his tribe in 629,7AH.
15 Facts About Abu Hurayra
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Abu Hurayra Hurairah was one of the first to accept Islam from his tribe, unlike the majority of Tufayl's tribesmen who embraced Islam later.
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Abu Hurayra Hurairah accompanied Tufayl to Madina to meet Muhammad who renamed him Abdurrahman.
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Abu Hurayra Hurairah stuck closely to Muhammad, and went on expeditions and journeys with him.
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Abu Hurayra Hurairah was recorded as having participated in the Expedition of Dhat al-Riqa, which took place in Najd in the year 4 AH or 5 AH.
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Later, Abu Hurayra Hurairah was sent as a muezzin to al-Ala al-Hadhrami in Bahrayn.
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Abu Hurayra Hurairah was one of the defenders of the third Rashidun caliph, Uthman, during his assassination.
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Abu Hurayra Hurairah continued to work as mufti after Uthman's death.
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Abu Hurayra Hurairah died in the year 679 at the age of 76 and was buried at al-Baqi'.
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In 1274 the Mausoleum of Abu Hurayra Hurairah was constructed in Yibna, at the order of the Mamluk Sultan Baibars.
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The hadith reported by Abu Hurayra Hurairah are diverse, being used by Islamic scholars specializing in hadith, 'aqidah, fiqh, ijtihad, tafsir, and Islamic eschatology.
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Abu Hurayra Hurairah is credited with narrating at least 5,374 hadith.
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Abu Hurayra Hurairah continued collecting hadith after the death of Muhammad from Abu Hurayra Bakr, Umar, Aisha, Fadl ibn Abbas, Usama ibn Zayd, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Ka'b al-Ahbar.
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However, according to his own admission, Abu Hurayra Hurairah said that Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As possessed a greater number of narrations than himself, since Abd Allah diligently wrote every hadith he heard, while Abu Hurayra Hurairah relied on his extraordinary memory.
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Badri concludes his thesis that the phenomena of Abu Hurayra Rayyah writing came from the elementary and very small Abu Hurayra Rayyah knowledge regarding the structural Hadith studies with proper methodology.