Why Abu Hurairah Narrated More Than Anyone

Alhamdulillah.

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Concluding our mention of the great companion Abu the mention of his biography with as much summary as possible. Abu after the passing of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam, he was of course with the messenger in every single battle, every subsequent battle after the battle of up until the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam's passing and Abura was later made the governor of Bahin in the time of Omar and he was after concluding that position made the MUI and Muadith of Medina and his students as Bkari tells us that he has more than 800 students. Now the question that a lot of people ask is why are Abu's narrations more more numerous than the narrations of other more knowledgeable more major companions of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. some of which were not only his companions in Islam, were not only from but were even his companions before Islam or family members. And the answer to that is a couple of things. Number one, Abuah was considered a smaller companion. When we say smaller, right, we're not talking about size. We're not talking necessarily about position, but we are talking about age. He was a younger companion. And he had completely cleared himself of everything except for that function. And so that is all he did was narrate the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam's narrations and teach the students very similar to ib Abbas when he was in Mecca. Why? Because the other more major companions Abu Bakr Omar Ali etc. They were busy with the Islamic government. They were not as accessible. They did not have specific places where all they did was narrate or all they did was teach. They had other positions to fill. Abu that was his only position and that was his only thing that he did. Also, Abu Hurra lived far on because of his young age past the time of the four the obviously was was a number of decades. However, after that we had the kingship of Muawi and a lot of things started to change in the Muslim government. A lot of things started to change and shift and Abu Hurra continued to live on until the year 59 after Hijra which is considered to be a long time past the more than two decades past the time of Ali. Another thing is that Abu Huray was not in Iraq Iraq in the time of Ali and Abib when he moved the Muslim capital to Iraq from Medina. Some people might think how could you move the Muslim Empire's capital from the prophet sallall.aii wasallam's city to Iraq, right? That is absolutely necessary and it was one considered to be one of the most intelligent, one of the most successful decisions that the made and who made. Why? Because that was the those were the front lines of the expanding Muslim empire. The Muslim Empire was expanding so quickly that it would have been almost impossible to maintain order and civility in these new territories if the Katha was so far deep into the Arab Peninsula. You have to imagine say let's say something happens in past the river the Euphrates River or let's say something happens going into the Roman territories or the Persian territories some kind of civil unrest some kind of battle some kind of and so they have to send word back to the Kilfa right they had to send word back to the capital. Imagine if that word instead of taking a week or two is now taking months on end to arrive there, have a decision made and send back that decision. Things have completely changed from what was being what the information was originally, right? Rebellions could have started, they could have ended, entire battles would be lost. And so it becomes almost impossible to have a an expanding Muslim empire with such speed to where communication is so slow to the head or so slow to the capital. Therefore did move the capital to Iraq. It remained there for centuries to come. Abu narrated a lot of narrations and of them were the narrations of the prophecies of the prophet Muhammad sallall.aii wasallam. When you look at the prophet's prophecies, the things that he informed us about. He informs us of things that are going to happen in the future as a function. It's not just for us to know. So he's going to inform us of things before they happen in order that we can prepare for them in order that we can expect them so that we are not blindsided by them. So when you look into the prophecies that he left us when he passed away sallallahu alaihi wasallam you see that those prophecies are concentrated on two main eras. First is immediately after his death saiam and continuing on about into the first h 100red years we have a lot of prophecies about leaders and government and leadership and things that would occur wars battles discord you know conflicts etc. things that would happen immediately after his death and about a hundred years on after his death sai wasam. These serve a purpose. The next cluster of prophecies focus on when humanity is gearing up and preparing for the emergence of a gel. Those prophecies are very heavy as well. So these major events that happen, this is where we find the most numerous prophecies and what he spent most time speaking about with regards to things that will occur. And so being that he narrated Abua narrated so many narrations of the prophecies of things that would occur immediately after his death. He was scrutinized very deeply by the new governing force and the new folks that were starting to take over in the Muslim government. especially around and after the time of and of course was in Hashem. So he was he was all the way in Syria. So what was going on in Medina had to send governors to be in these different places. And many of these governors were many of these governors that took over after Muawa were not the most savvy, not the best of characters. And so because of this, there were many narrations that Abu would narrate to his close companions. He would not publicly narrate them. and narrations that he would publicly narrate but very vaguely of things that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam prophesized and one of those prophecies was that Abu was known to make the dua.

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He would say, "Oh Allah, I seek refuge in you from the leadership of the foolish and the year 60." And so Abu passed away in the year 59 after Hijra. What occurred in the year 60 after hijra Yazid Iban Muawi took over the governance and it was considered to be a disaster and a lot of difficult times came upon the Muslim and specifically the companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam after that Abu Huray was from dos is a place in Yemen a lot of people don't know that do is one of the regions that actually offered the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam harbor and offered him a place to make his hijra to. Do is one of those places that when they became Muslim and Abu was the first of dose to become Muslim they had offered to the prophet sallallahu alaii wasallam to come and make hijra to do and that they would protect him. basically what the Ansar did in Medina. The prophet sallallah.aii wasallam declined that offer. But could you imagine how different the history of the world would have been and the history of Islam and the Muslims would have been if Medina was not where it is today and if it was Yemen. It would have been very very different. very different things. so with that as we mentioned Abu passed away in the year 59 after hijra he was born roughly 21 years before hijra which makes him pass which would mean that he passed away at about 80 years old. , and so Abu Hurra is one of the most important companions for us to know and study and keep up with his life and times. And obviously this is a very quick thing. Three days basically is a quick thing. We haven't even scratched the surface. Abu has volumes of books that have been written about him, about his students, about his narrations, about his knowledge. We will be sufficed with that for today. Inshallahhammed. Alhamdulillah.