al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6141
✧ Abu Hurairah al-Dawsi; "And the Dispute Over His Name and His Father's Name
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فَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ ثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِي عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ
كَانَ اسْمِي فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ عَبْدَ شَمْسِ بْنِ صَخْرٍ فَسُمِّيتُ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ وَإِنَّمَا كَنُّونِي بِأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ لِأَنِّي كُنْتُ أَرْعَى غَنَمًا لِأَهْلِي فَوَجَدْتُ أَوْلَادَ هِرَّةٍ وَحْشِيَّةٍ فَجَعَلْتُهَا فِي كُمِّي فَلَمَّا رَجَعْتُ عَنْهُمْ سَمِعُوا أَصْوَاتَ الْهِرِّ مِنْ حِجْرِي فَقَالُوا مَا هَذَا يَا عَبْدُ شَمْسٍ؟ فَقُلْتُ أَوْلَادُ هِرٍّ وَجَدَتْهَا قَالُوا فَأَنْتَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ فَلَزَمَتْنِي بَعْدُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār
- Yūnus b. Bukayr
- Ibn Isḥāq
- Baʿḍ Aṣḥābī
- Abū Hurayrah
✧ My name in the Jahiliyyah was 'Abd Shams b. Sakhr, but in Islam I was named 'Abd al-Rahman. They gave me the kunyah Abu Hurayrah only because I used to tend sheep for my family and I found kittens of a wild cat, so I put them in my sleeve. When I returned to them, they heard the sounds of the kittens from my lap and said, 'What is this, O 'Abd Shams?' I said, 'Kittens I found.' They said, 'Then you are Abu Hurayrah,' and it stuck to me ever since.
Notes
قَالَ ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ «وَكَانَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ وَسِيطًا فِي دَوْسٍ حَيْثُ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَكُونَ مِنْهُمْ»
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- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- بعض أصحاب محمد بن إسحاقحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHابْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 199 AHيُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- Weak (ḍaʿīf), though his hearing of the biography (sīrah) is sound (ṣaḥīḥ)d. 270 AH or 271 AH or 272 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِضعيف ، وسماعه للسيرة صحيححدثنا
- d. 346 AHأَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
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