Where was he from the combat of ar-Rajee’ and its leader...

Where was he from the combat of ar-Rajee’ and its leader Aassim bin Thabit al-Ansari, who was martyred in it to tell of it as if he had seen everything?[^6] It happened in the month of Safar the fourth year of hijra, three years before Abu Hurayra came to Hijaz and became a Muslim. Any one, who inquired the manner of Abu Hurayra in narrating traditions, would know that he was just as what we said. These few traditions were enough to prove that.

Ahmed Ameen noticed that and said about Abu Hurayra: “It seemed that he didn’t narrate what he had heard from the Prophet (S.) only, but he narrated what he was told of by the others.”[^7] Abu Hurayra himself confessed that. When he narrated that the Prophet (S.) had said: “Whoever was impure when it dawned, he was not to fast.” Aa’isha and Um Salama denied it. He accused al-Fadhl bin al-Abbas, who was dead then,[^8] of saying that.

He said that he had heard it from al-Fadhl and had not heard it from the Prophet (S.). Anyhow he confessed, whether it was true or false, that he ascribed to the Prophet (S.) what he had heard from others. If you say: what of it if he ascribed to the Prophet (S.) a tradition that he had heard from another one? We say: it does not matter, but the tradition must not be considered as true tradition unless all the series of narrators would be known and proved to be trusty.

That is to say the honesty of the narrator must be proved as condition for the tradition to be true. The tradition must not be considered as true one if the narrator was unknown. In a word, many of Abu Hurayra’s traditions were such that it could not be depended upon. They mixed with his true traditions that made us avoid them all according to the rule of suspicions. His Pretense of Attending some Events This man obliged us to doubt him.

He pretended that he had attended some events that he had never done. He said: “Once I entered the house of Ruqayya, the Prophet’s (S.) daughter and Othman’s wife. She had a comb in her hand. She said: “The Prophet (S.) left just a little ago. I combed his hair. He said to me: “How do you find Abu Abdullah (Othman)?” I said: “he is good.” He said to me: “Grace him!