Abu Hurairah

Abū Hurayrah (Arabic أبو هريرة, DMG Abū Hurayrah, † 678, 679 or 680 ) was a companion of the Prophet Mohammed from the South Arabian tribe Daus, who is best known as the narrator of Hadith. With more than 3300 hadith in whose chain of narrators he appears, he is in Sunni Islam numerically the most important informant prophetic traditions at all.

Abū Hurayrah herself to the Prophet closed the year at 628 after the campaign to Khaybar. On this occasion, the Prophet changed his name from ʿ Abd Shams in ʿ Abd from. The nickname Abu Huraira ( = " father of the kitten " ), under which he was known, he should have received a cat because of his love that was in his possession. In Medina he belonged to the so-called Ahlus Suffa, a group of ascetics who lived on alms and remained homeless. Later, it began the Caliph Umar ibn al - Khattab as governor of Bahrain, but dismissed him again soon on charges that he had hoarded the income from his province. When al - Hakam was governor of Medina during the caliphate of Muawiyah I the Umayyad prince Marwan ibn, he sat him during his Abwesensheitphasen as a deputy.

General was Abū Hurayrah reputed great piety. How ʿ Abd Allāh ibn ʿ Abbās he was known for the tradition of biblical narrative materials of Jews and Christians, but also convened one in traditions of legal, ritual and theological questions his authority. Even in the milieu of early hadith narrators however, there were doubts as to whether really go back all the hadiths that circulated in the name of Abū Hurairas, to himself. This debate over the authenticity of Abu Huraira - Hadith has flared up again since the 1950s among the Muslims.