[^5]: Ibn Qutayba ad-Daynouri mentioned in his book Al-Ma’arif pg.

[^5]: Ibn Qutayba ad-Daynouri mentioned in his book Al-Ma’arif pg.93 that Abu Hurayra said: “I was surnamed with Abu Hurayra because of a small cat (in Arabic, hirra means cat and hurayra means small cat (kitten)) I used to play with.” Ibn Sa’d in his Tabaqat, in Abu Hurayra’s biography mentioned that Abu Hurayra said: “I grazed sheep and I had a small cat.

When night came I put it on a tree and in the morning I took it to play with, so they called me Abu Hurayra.) Whoever wrote about Abu Hurayra’s biography mentioned that or something like that. He kept on fondness of his cat and playing with it at the days of Islam until (S.) saw him putting his cat inside his sleeve. This was mentioned by al-Fayrooz Abadi in his book Al-Qamoos Al-Muheet, article of (hirra).

[^6]: Mentioned by al-Bukhari in his Sahih, vol.2 chapter of “Beginning of creation”, pg.149 and by Ahmed bin Hanbal in his Musnad, vol.2 pg.261. Previous…