Towards the Eternal Heaven
Loving the Cat
Abu Harairah Radhiyallahu ‘anhu (died 57 H)
Abu Hurairah is the friend who most narrates the hadith of the Prophet Shallallahu alaihi wassalam, he narrates a hadith of 5,374 hadiths.
Abu Hurairah embraced Islam in the year 7 A. H., the year of the Khibar war, the Prophet himself who gave the nickname “Abu Hurairah”, when he was looking at him carrying a small cat. The nickname of the Prophet Shallallahu alaihi wassalam was simply because of his love for him.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala granted the Prophet's prayer so that Abu Hurairah was granted a strong poultice. It is the most common among the other friends.
During the time of Umar bin Khaththab became Caliph, Abu Hurairah became an official in Bahrain, because many narrated the hadith of Umar bin Khaththab had challenged him and when Abu Hurairah narrated the word of the Prophet Shallallahu alaihi wassalam :” Whoever lies on my behalf intentionally, let him prepare his ass to be licked by the fire of hell”. Then said Umar, you can go and tell the hadith.
Shu’bah bin al-Hajjaj noticed that Abu Hurairah narrated from Ka’ab al-Akhbar and narrated also from the Prophet Shallallahu alaihi wassalam, but he did not distinguish between the two narrations. Syu’bah also accused him of tadlis, but Bishr bin Sa’id rejected Syu speech about Abu Hurairah. And he said: Fear Allah and beware of the hadith. By Allah, I have seen us often sitting in the assembly of Abu Hurairah. He recounts the hadith of the Prophet and tells us the story of Ka’ab al-Akhbar. Then he stood up, then I heard from some people who were with us exchanging the hadith of the Prophet with the history of Ka’ab. And the one from Ka’ab became from Rasulullah.”. So the tadlis was not sourced from Abu Hurairah himself, but from the person who narrated from him.
Suffice it to hear from Imam Shafi’I:” Abu Hurairah is the most pragmatic among the hadith narrators of his day”.
Marwan bin al-Hakam once invited Abu Hurairah to write a story from him, then he asked about what he wrote, then Abu Hurairah replied :” No more and no less and the arrangement is sort”.
Abu Hurairah narrates the hadiths of /abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ubai bin Ka’ab, Uthman bin Za’id, Aisyah and other companions.
While the number of people narrating from him exceeds 800 people, consisting of friends and tabi’in. among others from the friends reported are Abdullah bin Abbas, Abdullah bin Umar, Jabir bin Abdullah, among others, and Anas bin Malik, while from among tabi’in among others Sa’id bin al-Musayyab, Ibn Sirin, Ikrimah, Atha’, Mujahid and Asy-Sya’bi.
The most shahih Sanad from which it is derived is Ibn Shihab az-Zuhr, from Sa’id bin al-Musayyab, from him (Abu Hurairah).
The most Dlaif is as-Sari ibn Sulaiman, from Dawud ibn Yazid al-Audi from his father (Yazid al-Audi) from Abu Hurayrah.
He died in 57 A. H. at Aqiq.
Jabir bin Abdullah Radhiyallahu ‘anhu (died 74 H)
Jabir bin Abdullah narrated 1,540 hadiths, His father was Abdullah bin Amr bin Hamran Al-Anshari as-Salami.
Jabir bin Abdullah visited Egypt and Syria and many people learned from him wherever they met him. At the Mosque of the Prophet of Medina he had a study group, here people gathered to benefit from knowledge and piety.
He died in Medina in 74 A. D. Abbas ibn Uthman, the ruler of Medina at that time, also insolated him.
Sanad is famous and most shahih of him is narrated by the people of Makkah through the path of Sufyan bin Uyainah, from Amr bin Dinar, from Jabir bin Abdullah.
Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri Radhiyallahu ‘anhu (died 74 H)
Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri is the seventh person who narrates the hadith of the Prophet Shallallah alaihi wassalam. It contains 1,170 hadiths.
People once asked him to allow them to write the hadiths they heard from him. He replied “ Do not write it once and do not make it as a reading, but memorize it as I memorize”.
Abi Sa’id better known by its original name is Sa’ad bin Malik bin Sinan. His father Malik bin Sinan was martyred in the battle of Uhud, he was a Khudri nasabnya connected with Khudrah bin Auf al-Harits bin al-Khazraj who is famous with the nickname “Abjar”.
When Uhud's war broke out, his father (malik) brought him to the Prophet Shallallahu alaihi wassalam and requested that his son be included in the war. At that time Jabir was 13 years old, but his father flattered the strength of his son's body:” He bony yes Rasulullah” but, the Prophet still considered him a child and told him to take him home.
Abu Sa’id al-Khudri is one of the friends who did bai’at to the Prophet Shallallah alaihi wassalam they vowed will not be swayed by the slurs of people in fighting for the religion of Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala, they are members of Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, Sahl bin Sa’ad, Ubaidah bin ash Shamit and Muhammad bin Muslimah.
Abu Sa’id al-Khudri with Rasulullah Shallallahu alaihi wassalam in the battle of Bani Musthaliq, the war of Khandaq and the war after, in total he followed 12 wars.
His account of other companions is numerous but the most famous sources are his own father Malik bin Sinan, his brother Qatadah bin an-Nu’man, Abu Bakan, Umar, Uthman, Ali, and others, Abu Musa al-Asy’ari, Zaid bin Tsabit and Abdullah bin Salam.
While the person who narrates the hadith from him is his own son Aburahman, his wife Zainab bin Ka’ab bin Ajrad, Abdullah bin Umar, Abdullah bin Abbas, Abu Thufail, Nafi’ and Ikramah.
Abu says’id took his son Abdurahman to Baqi's burial ground, and ordered that he be buried in a distant part of the site. He said: “ O my son, when I die, bury me there, Do not make a tent for, do not accompany my body with fire, Do not weep for me wailing, and don't tell anyone about myself”.
Then he died in 74 A. H.