Abstract
This article is inspired by the words of Abû Hurairah mentioning the number of hadiths Abdullah ibn ‘Amru received is more than what he acquired, considering he [Abdullah] had the luxury of writing everything he heard from Prophet Muhammad and the result of his writing has become a masterpiece called al-Ṣahîfah al-Ṣâdiqah. In fact, the number of the hadiths received by Abdullah which are codified are very limited, whereas the number of hadiths narrated by Abû Hurairah in the hadith books written by scholars such as al-Jawâmi’, al-Masânid, al-Sunan and others have bigger proportion. No wonder if he was known as a friend who narrated the hadiths the most. This article aims at examining the reason this could happen. As the result, it concludes the less number of hadiths Abdullah received is due to domicile factor which was not the main destination for hadith seekers and personal factor in which he spent most of his time for worship and anticipated other scholars not to narrate israiliyat. In addition, the hadiths narrated by Abû Hurairah did not all refer to the Prophet, but received from his companions
Highlights
The hadiths from Prophet Muhammad in the early period were recorded by his companions by memorizing and writing.1 Here, the companions memorized them more dominantly than writing them due to several factors: 1)
Abdullah ibn’ Amru lived in Egypt which was not a priority area for hadith seek e rs, whereas Abu Hurairah lived in the city of Medina as the main destination for the seekers from various regions.61Imam Ibn Hajar al‘Asqalani (d. 52H) in Fath al-Bari bi Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari,62 and Abu Yahya Zakariya al-Ansari in M i nhat al-Bari bi Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari63 quote and agree with this opinion
The life of Prophet Muhammad for twentythree years during his prophethood, both in Mecca and Medina, has produced many good hadiths through his words, actions, and provisions for his friends. These hadiths are not all written by his companions as they recorded and wrote the Holy Qur’an back but only some companions gathered and wrote his hadiths as the majority of them could not write or did not get permission from him
Summary
The hadiths from Prophet Muhammad in the early period were recorded by his companions by memorizing (al-ḥifẓ fī al ṣudûr) and writing (al-ḥifz fī al-suṭûr). Here, the companions memorized them more dominantly than writing them due to several factors: 1). The hadiths from Prophet Muhammad in the early period were recorded by his companions by memorizing (al-ḥifẓ fī al ṣudûr) and writing (al-ḥifz fī al-suṭûr).. The number of human resources who had the ability to write the hadiths was very limited, to carry out this difficult activity, so they focused on writing the Holy Qur’an as the main source which happened to experience gradual process of revelation at that time, 3). 852H), there are two main reasons for not writing the hadiths during the time of the Companions and tabi’īn (followers). The fear of mixing up the hadiths and the Holy Qur’an caused Prophet Muhammad to forbid writing others but the Qur’an. Their skill of memorizing and the power of their memory and most of them could not write.
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