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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Shi'ite Encyclopedia (chapter 9) Subject : Abu Huraira (part 3: His Mental and Physical Conditions)/2 1)- After Abu Huraira became muslim, he did not have anything. He used to ask people to recite a verse of Quran, not because he wanted to benefit the Quran. He wanted the person to feel religiously close and ask Abu Huraira for a dinner or lunch. This is well known phenomena as "Comibing stomach and religion".

(Or combing religion with the money, stomach, power, ... or with trivial things) 2)- Even people did not believe that such person can narrate so many traditions. {No reference now: It has been told that Abu Huraira narrated 40,000 traditions during his life time. Dinving such number of traditions to three years of his companionship will result to 36 traditions per day (!!!).

A reference I gave a few weeks ago confirms that he, himself, has confessed that nobody among the sahabah has narrated as many traditions as he did. Knowing this fact that he is the second person in rate of narrating hadith in Bukhari and Muslim, we conclude that he must have narrated more traditions than is recorded in these two books.} In one given hadith, he, himself, has confessed that people accused him of madness.

3)- Interesting point is that there is NO single hadith narrated by others as the merit of Abu Huraira. If you search the whole Bukhari and Muslim as the merit of Abu Huraira, whatever hadith you see about his companionship with the prophet, and his so called knowledge is narretd by him ALONE. On the other hand, when you read the merit of Ali-Ibn-Abitaleeb (Salman, Umar, Zubair, ...), you can see that there were different narrators to say one hadith for Ali-Ibn-Abitaleeb (Or others).

This does not happen with Abu Huraira at all. All the traditions like: I was a good boy, I did this and that were narrated ONLY by Abu Huraira. I am asking you to tell me if you accept the testimony of person in the court saying that he is a good boy. Narrated Abu Huraira: The people used to say, "Abu Huraira narrates too many narrations." In fact I used to keep close to Allah's Apostle and was satisfied with what filled my stomach.

I ate no leavened bread and dressed no decorated striped clothes, and never did a man or a woman serve me, and I often used to press my belly against gravel because of hunger, and I used to ask a man to recite a Quranic Verse to me although I knew it, so that he would take me to his home and feed me.