18 Facts About Abu Hurayrah

1.

Abu Hurayrah was known by the kunyah Abu Hurayrah "Father of a Kitten", in reference to his attachment to cats, and he was a member of Suffah.

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2.

Later during the caliphate era, Abu Hurairah served as Ulama teacher, governor, soldier, and Hadith auditor.

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3.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah acknowledged by Muslim scholars for his extraordinary photographic memory which allowed him to memorize massive numbers of over 5,000 hadiths which later produced more than 500,000 chain narrations, or Isnad which make Abu Hurayrah Hurairah an exemplar role model for Hadith studies scholars.

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4.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah embraced Islam through Tufayl ibn 'Amr, the chieftain of his tribe.

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5.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah was one of the first to accept Islam, unlike the majority of Tufayl's tribesmen who embraced Islam later.

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6.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah accompanied Tufayl to Mecca to meet Muhammad who renamed him Abdurrahman.

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7.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah spent approximately two years and three months in the company of Muhammad, and went on expeditions and journeys with him.

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8.

Abu Hurayrah 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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9.

Later, Abu Hurayrah Hurairah were sent as a muezzin to al-Ala al-Hadhrami in Bahrayn.

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10.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah was one of the defenders of the third Rashidun caliph, Uthman, during his assassination.

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11.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah continued to work as mufti after Uthman's death.

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12.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah died in the year 681 at the age of 78 and was buried at al-Baqi'.

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13.

In 1274 the Mausoleum of Abu Hurayrah Hurairah was constructed in Yibna, at the order of the Mamluk Sultan Baibars.

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14.

Hadith reported by Abu Hurayrah Hurairah are diverse, being used by Islamic scholars specializing in hadith, 'aqidah, fiqh, ijtihad, tafsir, and Islamic eschatology.

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15.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah is credited with narrating at least 5,374 hadith.

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16.

Abu Hurayrah Hurairah continued collecting hadith after the death of Muhammad from Abu Hurayrah Bakr, Umar, Aisha, Fadl ibn Abbas, Usama ibn Zayd, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Ka'b al-Ahbar.

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17.

However, according to his own admission, Abu Hurayrah 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 Hurayrah Hurairah relied on his extraordinary memory.

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18.

Badri concludes his thesis that the phenomena of Abu Hurayrah Rayyah writing came from the elementary and very small Abu Hurayrah Rayyah knowledge regarding the structural Hadith studies with proper methodology.

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