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'''Ahl as-Suffah (أهل الصفة)''' : | '''Ahl as-Suffah (أهل الصفة)''' : literally, the people of the banquet. They sojourned permanently about the prophets mosque and sheltered under a canopy. | ||
Verse 273 of surah number two al-Baqarah may make an allusion to them: | Verse 273 of surah number two al-Baqarah may make an allusion to them: | ||
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We were with Abu Huraira while he was wearing two linen garments dyed with red clay. He cleaned his nose with his garment, saying, "Bravo! Bravo! Abu Huraira is cleaning his nose with linen! There came a time when I would fall senseless between the pulpit of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and `Aisha's dwelling whereupon a passerby would come and put his foot on my neck, considering me a mad man, but in fact, I had no madness, I suffered nothing but hunger."}} | We were with Abu Huraira while he was wearing two linen garments dyed with red clay. He cleaned his nose with his garment, saying, "Bravo! Bravo! Abu Huraira is cleaning his nose with linen! There came a time when I would fall senseless between the pulpit of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and `Aisha's dwelling whereupon a passerby would come and put his foot on my neck, considering me a mad man, but in fact, I had no madness, I suffered nothing but hunger."}} | ||
During the course of the last four years of the life of the prophet when according to the tradition he had total, uncontested power in Medinah, it is difficult to imagine someone daring to step upon the neck of a true companion of the prophet in broad daylight...it seems possible that Abu Hourayra didn't habitually accompany the prophet but | During the course of the last four years of the life of the prophet when according to the tradition he had total, uncontested power in Medinah, it is difficult to imagine someone daring to step upon the neck of a true companion of the prophet in broad daylight...it seems possible that Abu Hourayra didn't habitually accompany the prophet but rather but rather stay in or around the mosque of Madinah in the day, and homeless under the stars at night, amongst the "Suffah." In such a position he might well have seen the power that religion has in those times in that place. The opportunities afforded by religion would have been apparent. | ||
==Judged as too Gossipy during the Lifetime of the Prophet, but explained thanks to a magic coat.== | ==Judged as too Gossipy during the Lifetime of the Prophet, but explained thanks to a magic coat.== | ||
If one takes into account that he supposedly transmitted more than 5000 hadiths in the space of four years, that works our to collectively about 4 hadith per day, a startling piece of statistical evidence. Even more confusing : according to numerous sources, during these 4 years, in total he could only have known the prophet for a year and nine months since the prophet sent him under the command of ibn Al Hadhrami to Bahrain. The messenger of Allah died while Abu Hurayrah was still there in Bahrain (Abou Houreyra : Mahmoud Abou Ar Riya Al Misri, | If one takes into account that he supposedly transmitted more than 5000 hadiths in the space of four years, that works our to collectively about 4 hadith per day, a startling piece of statistical evidence. Even more confusing : according to numerous sources, during these 4 years, in total he could only have known the prophet for a year and nine months since the prophet sent him under the command of ibn Al Hadhrami to Bahrain. The messenger of Allah died while Abu Hurayrah was still there in Bahrain (Abou Houreyra : Mahmoud Abou Ar Riya Al Misri, Commentaries des Hadiths, de Ibn Koteyba, page 39 et 41). But also because the prophet has spent a great amounts of his time in military expeditions during the last 4 years of his life it is unlikely that Abu Hurayrah spent even 1 year and 9 months around him. Numerous contemporaries of Abu Hurayrah expressed their astonishment if not their doubts concerning this profusion of hadith traditions which seemed to pour out of Abu Hurayrah like bullets from a machine gun . | ||
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===Ibn Sa’d al-Baghdadi Kitab al-Tabaqât al Kabîr :=== | ===Ibn Sa’d al-Baghdadi Kitab al-Tabaqât al Kabîr :=== | ||
{{Quote||« I was a servant of Ibn ‘Affan and Bint Ghazwane just to keep food in my belly. I drove them when they were on their mounts and served them when they descended. She [Bousra Bint Ghazwane] told me one day : « you will only mount a mount when they are upright [it is very difficult to mount a dromedary upright] and you will only come down barefoot. » Then god allowed me to marry her[when he was promoted to amir under Mu’âwiya] and I told him : «You will only get down barefoot and you will only get on when it is upright. »}} | {{Quote||« I was a servant of Ibn ‘Affan and Bint Ghazwane just to keep food in my belly. I drove them when they were on their mounts and served them when they descended. She [Bousra Bint Ghazwane] told me one day : « you will only mount a mount when they are upright [it is very difficult to mount a dromedary upright] and you will only come down barefoot. » Then god allowed me to marry her[when he was promoted to amir under Mu’âwiya] and I told him : «You will only get down barefoot and you will only get on when it is upright. »}} | ||
Abu Hurayrah finished his life | Abu Hurayrah finished his life immensely wealthy, the governor of Medinah living in a palace. In the service of the first caliphs and in particular the Umayyads, he very effectively collaborated and ingratiated himself with the founders of today's current Sunni islam, a venture which served to make him immensely rich and powerful. | ||
==Examples of Hadiths in the Pure Style of Abu Hurayrah== | ==Examples of Hadiths in the Pure Style of Abu Hurayrah== | ||