Sahih Muslim 2492c

Translation

People say that Abu Huraira transmits so many ahadith, whereas Allah is the Reckoner, and they say: How is it with Muhajirs and the Ansar that they do not narrate ahadith like him (like Abu Huraira)? Abu Huraira said: I tell you that my brothers from Ansar remained busy with their lands and my brothers Muhajirs were busy in transactions in the bazars, but I always kept myself attached to Messenger of Allah ﷺ with bare subsistence. I remained present (in the company of the Holy Prophet), whereas they had been absent. I retained in my mind (what the Prophet said), whereas they forgot it. One day Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: He who amongst you spreads the cloth and listens to my talk and would then press it against his chest would never forget anything heard from me. So I spread my mantle and when he had concluded his talk I then pressed it against my chest and so I never forgot after that day anything that he (the Holy Prophet) said. And if these two verses would not have been revealed in the Book I would have never transmitted anything (to anybody):" Those who conceal the clear evidence and the guidance that We revealed" (ii. 159) tip to the last verse.

Notes

• حَدَّثَنِي بِهِ وَلَوْلاَ آيَتَانِ أَنْزَلَهُمَا اللَّهُ فِي كِتَابِهِ مَا حَدَّثْتُ شَيْئًا أَبَدًا { إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْتُمُونَ مَا أَنْزَلْنَا مِنَ الْبَيِّنَاتِ وَالْهُدَى} إِلَى آخِرِ الآيَتَيْنِ

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 118Sunan Ibn Majah 262Sahih Ibn Hibban 7153Musnad al-Bazzar 9894al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5844

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   قال
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib

   One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AH
   ابْنُ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبار
   قال
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنُ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
   يونس بن يزيدالأيليثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
   أخبرني
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb al-Miṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
   عبد الله بن وهب المصريثقة حافظ ، عابد
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   Ḥarmalah b. Yaḥyā

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 243 AH, or 244 AH
   حرملة بن يحيى التجيبيصدوق
   حدثني
7. 7
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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