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  "en": "Abu Hurayra",
  "ar": "أبو هريرة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A convert of the Khaybar years who became, by far, the most prolific narrator of hadith in the Sunni collections — a fact celebrated by the tradition and debated by scholars.",
  "ar": "ممن أسلم زمن خيبر وصار، بفارق كبير، أكثر رواة الحديث في دواوين السنة — وهي حقيقة يحتفي بها التراث ويناقشها الباحثون."
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences",
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 602.998624201729,
  "latest": 682.0009308883507
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0603~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Born among the tribe of Daws in the Yemeni highlands; date approximate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0681~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "Reports give 57–59 AH (about 678–681 CE).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
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   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عبد الرحمن بن صخر الدوسي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
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   "edtf": "0603~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Born among the tribe of Daws in the Yemeni highlands; date approximate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0681~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "Reports give 57–59 AH (about 678–681 CE).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "scholar"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni",
   "shia-twelver"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0629~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Arrived at Medina and embraced Islam around the time of Khaybar.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0629~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "transmitter",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0632~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "The single most prolific narrator in the Sunni hadith collections, despite accompanying the Prophet for only about three years.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "official",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0638~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Served briefly as governor of Bahrayn under Umar.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "Early Muslim; recorded under the museum's Sunni frame (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "perspectives": [
   {
    "tradition": "sunni",
    "summary": {
     "en": "Sunni tradition venerates Abu Hurayra as the foremost narrator of hadith: a man who devoted himself to memorizing the Prophet's words, with thousands of reports transmitted through him."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "academic",
    "summary": {
     "en": "Historians and hadith critics note that many reports in his name are later attributions; the sheer volume, produced in about three years of companionship, is treated as a phenomenon of the tradition's growth."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "shia-twelver",
    "summary": {
     "en": "Twelver Shia tradition is cautious about Abu Hurayra, accepting his narrations selectively and regarding some as serving later Umayyad interests."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/momen-1985"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sensitivity": "contested",
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/watt-1956-medina"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "لم يلازم أبو هريرة النبي إلا نحو ثلاث سنين — ومع ذلك روى أكثر الحديث في دواوين السنة. كيف أنتج رجل واحد آلاف الروايات سؤال ما زال الباحثون يسألونه."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "رجل من قبيلة دوس في جبال اليمن، قدم المدينة فأسلم نحو سنة 629م زمن [[event/battle-of-khaybar|خيبر]] {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. وفيما بقي من سني النبي يصوّره التراث ملازمًا لحافة المسجد — فقيرًا جوعان حافظًا {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nوبعد سنة 632م صار سيلًا: الروايات عنه في دواوين السنة بالآلاف، في الفقه والعبادات والآخرة وأقوال النبي. ووالى البحرين يومًا عن [[person/umar-ibn-al-khattab|عمر]]، ومات بالمدينة نحو 678–681م {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\n:::perspectives\n- **أهل السنة**: تُجِلّه السنة أعلى الرواة — رجلًا وهب نفسه لحفظ كلام النبي {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n- **أكاديمي**: يشير المؤرخون ونقاد الحديث إلى أن كثيرًا من رواياته إسناد متأخر؛ وحجمه الهائل في ثلاث سنين ظاهرة من نمو التراث {cite:watt-1956-medina}.\n- **الشيعة الاثنا عشرية**: يتحفظ التراث الإمامي عن أبي هريرة، فيقبل رواياته انتقاءً ويرى بعضها في خدمة مصالح أموية لاحقة {cite:momen-1985}.\n:::"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "مهما وُزنت الروايات، فإن جزءًا كبيرًا مما تعرفه السنة عن أقوال النبي يصل إلينا من ذاكرة هذا الرجل الواحد."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "عاش أبو هريرة مع النبي ثلاث سنين فحفظ حتى صار اسمه تحت آلاف الحكايات والأقوال — أكثر من أي شخص آخر."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abu-hurayra",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Abu Hurayra knew the Prophet for only about three years — and narrated more hadith than anyone else in the Sunni collections. How one man produced thousands of reports is the question scholars still ask."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "A man of the tribe of Daws in the Yemeni highlands, he came to Medina and embraced Islam about 629 CE, around the time of [[event/battle-of-khaybar|Khaybar]] {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. For the remaining years of the Prophet's life, the tradition pictures him permanently at the mosque's edge — poor, often hungry, memorizing {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nAfter 632 he became the flood: reports in his name run into the thousands in the Sunni collections, on law, ritual, the afterlife, and the Prophet's sayings. He served briefly as governor of Bahrayn under [[person/umar-ibn-al-khattab|Umar]], and died in Medina about 678–681 {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\n:::perspectives\n- **Sunni**: Sunni tradition venerates him as the foremost narrator — a man who gave up everything to memorize the Prophet's words {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n- **Academic**: Historians and hadith critics note that many reports in his name are later attributions; the sheer volume, in three years of companionship, is treated as a phenomenon of the tradition's growth {cite:watt-1956-medina}.\n- **Twelver Shia**: Twelver Shia tradition is cautious about Abu Hurayra, accepting his narrations selectively and seeing some as serving later Umayyad interests {cite:momen-1985}.\n:::"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "However the reports are weighed, a large part of what Sunni Islam knows the Prophet said reaches us through this one man's memory."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Abu Hurayra spent three years with the Prophet and remembered so much that his name sits under thousands of stories and sayings — more than anyone else's."
    }
   ],
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