Abu Hurayra said...

Abu Hurayra said: “I had seen seventy of the suffa’s inhabitants that no one of them had a dress on him.”[^15] Those seventy ones were all martyred in the combat of the well of Ma’ouna. The Prophet (S.) became very sad for them. He prayed against their killers for a month. This combat took place in the fourth year of hijra, some years before Abu Hurayra came from Yemen. So how did he see them? Al-Qastalani said[^16] that the seventy ones, whom Abu Hurayra had seen, were other than those.

Allah (S.w.T.) is the most aware! After inspecting and inquiring about Abu Hurayra, we found that he often narrated prophetic traditions, which he had not heard from the Prophet (S.) and often told about the events that he had not attended or he pretended that he had attended.

He might admire something he had heard from Ka’bul Ahbar[^17] or another one and he narrated it as if he had heard it from the Prophet (S.) like he did in his tradition: “Allah (S.w.T.) created Adam according to His own shape in sixty cubits long…