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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Shi'ite Encyclopedia (chapter 9) Subject: Re: Abu Huraira (part 3: His Mental and Physical Conditions)/3 miracle for Abu Huraira to get super memory? Now you seem to recognize your lack of knowledge.

Did you know that the companion and cousin of the prophet SAAS Abdullah Ibn Abbas has got from the prophet his blessings and once sweeped his chest with his hand and prayed Allah for him saying:" Allahumma faqqihhou fi ddini wa 'allimhou min ta'ouili l kitabi" (i.e. Oh Allah give know- ledge in the religion and make him interprete the book)?and by some miracle Ibn Abbas became Hibr l oumma (the imam of the nation),that was one of the miracles of the prophet SAAS.

In almost the same way the prophet SAAS made a prayer once for Abu Huraira whn he complai- ned to him his shortage in memoizing. : As you noted, Ibn Abbas (r) is recognised, even by other sahabah that he knew "taaweel" (interpretation) of the Quran. This is different from memorizing of it. Many people, even today, memorize the whole Quran, that does not mean the know the TRUE meaning behind all that is in it.

Ali ibn AbiTalib (as) was another who said that there was no aya in the Quran that he didn't know when it was revealed or why it was revealed and what it meant. The other Sahabah recognised this about these persons and there are (mutawatir) hadeeths supporting their knowledge. Now, on Abu Huraira. Although no one thinks/claims that he knew "taaweel" of the Quran, you did not show any proof that he got his memory-powers after the prophet (sawaws) prayed for him.

I would ask you to produce the reference(s) in that regard, preferably a mention by other sahabah on these special attributes of Abu Hurairah, as opposed to him describing himself. I would like to make a further correction, Abu Hurairah after less than three years with the prophet (sawaws), did not or avoided telling hadeeths during the periods of the first three "khulafaa al rashideen", at least.

His hadeeth telling was mainly during Mu'awiya's time and later - this is at least 30 years after the prophet. So he kept all these 3000 +/- hadeeths in his heart without telling others about them for all this time. The proof to what I am saying is that Abu-Bakir, Omar and Uthman (r) did not allow telling and recording of hadeeths. There is a report, in it Abu Hurairah is asked if he told such hadeeth in the time of Uthman?