The word · History
أَبُو هُرَيْرَة
Abu Hurayrah
The Companion who narrated more hadith than any other, from about four years in the Prophet's company.
Also written · Abu Hurairah · Abu Huraira · Abu Hurayra · Abu Hureyre · Ebu Hureyre · Abdur Rahman ibn Sakhr · Abu Hurairah ad-Dawsi · Abu Huraira ra · Abu Hurera · Father of the kitten
The meaning
What Abu Hurayrah means in Islam
The nickname means father of the kitten, from a cat he carried as a boy. He accepted Islam around the year of Khaybar, joined the poor Companions living on the mosque bench, and stayed close to the Prophet while others worked or traded. He said openly that the Muhajirun were busy in the markets and the Ansar with their land, and he was not. He also asked the Prophet to pray that he would not forget, and reported that he never forgot anything afterwards.
Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah
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Words that sit beside it
- SahabahThe Companions: anyone who met the Prophet as a believer and died still believing.الصَّحَابَة
- HadithA report of what the Prophet Muhammad said, did, or quietly approved, passed down through named narrators.الحَدِيث
- KhaybarThe fortified oasis north of Madinah taken in year seven, shortly after Hudaybiyah.خَيْبَر
- MadinahThe oasis city that took the Prophet in, where he governed, died and is buried.المَدِينَة
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- KhilafahSuccession to the Prophet in governing the community, not in prophethood, which ended with him.الخِلَافَة
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