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Abu Hurayra | |
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أبُو هُرَيْرَة | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | c. 603 Al-Jabur, Arabia (present-day Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia) |
| Died | 679 (aged 75–76) Medina, Umayyad Caliphate (present-day Saudi Arabia) |
| Resting place | Al-Baqi' Cemetery, Medina, Saudi Arabia |
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| Main interest(s) | Hadith |
| Known for | Narrating the highest number of hadith |
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| Relations | Banu Daws clan, Zahran tribe |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
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| Military career | |
| Allegiance | |
| Service | Rashidun army |
| Commands | Military governor of Bahrain |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | ʿAbd al-Raḥmān عَبْد ٱلرَّحْمَٰن |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | Ibn Ṣakhr ٱبْن صَخْر |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū Huraya أبُو هُرَيْرَة |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | Al-Dawsī al-Zahrānī ٱلدَّوْسِيّ ٱلزَّهْرَانِيّ |
Abū Hurayra ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Dawsī al-Zahrānī (Arabic: أبُو هُرَيْرَة عَبْد ٱلرَّحْمَٰن بْن صَخْر ٱلدَّوْسِيّ ٱلزَّهْرَانِيّ; c. 603–679), commonly known as Abū Hurayra (Arabic: أبُو هُرَيْرَة; lit. 'father of a kitten'), was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the most prolific hadith narrator. Born in al-Jabur, Arabia to the Banu Daws clan of the Zahran tribe, he was among the first people to accept Islam, and later became a member of the Suffah after the migration of Muhammad.
Under Muhammad, Hurayra was sent as a muezzin to al-Ala al-Hadhrami in Bahrain. Under the reign of the Rashidun caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab, he briefly served as a governor of Bahrain. After being accused of corruption by Umar, he left the governorship and returned to Medina.
Acknowledged by Sunni Muslim scholars for his notable photographic memory, he memorized massive numbers of over 5,000 hadiths, which later produced more than 500,000 narrator chains, making him an example followed by Hadith scholars today. The four major Sunni madhahib have all used hadith narrated by Hurayra in major jurisprudential decisions. However, outside Sunnism, several scholars have regarded Hurayra as unreliable and telling lies.