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Multiplicity of His Traditions:
All men of hadith concur that Abu Hurayrah was the most prolific among the Sahabah in relating traditions from the Messenger of Allah! Whilst his company to the Prophet was only for a year and nine months.366 Muhammad ibn Hazm states that Musnad Ibn Mukhallad contained 5,374 traditions narrated by Abu Hurayrah of which 446 ones reported by al-Bukhari.
He himself said about himself as reported by al Bukhari None among the Companions of the Prophet (S) exceeds me in relating traditions from him except Abd Allah ibn Amr,367 as he used to write down (the traditions) while I was not.368 If we go through all the traditions related by Ibn Amr we would find Seven hundred ones recorded by Ibn al-Jawzi, 722 ones recorded in Musnad Ahmad, with seven ones reported by al-Bukhari and twenty by Muslim. The multiplicity of traditions narrated by Abu Hurayrah stunned Umar ibn al-Khattab, who hit him with his pearl saying to him: O Abu Hurayrah, you have exaggerated in narration (riwayah) and I think you to be ascribing false traditions to the Messenger of Allah. Then he threatened to exile him to his homeland if he didn't give up relating hadith of the Messenger of Allah.
Ibn Asakir reported the hadith of al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid, that he said: You should give up relating hadith of the Messenger of Allah, or otherwise I shall exile you to the land of Dous.
Therefore, after death of Umar and going away of his pearl, he started again relating so numerous traditions since no one was there to be afraid from other than him (Umar). In this regard he said: I relate to you traditions which had I related during the lifetime of Umar, he would have hit me with the pearl (in another narration: he would have fractured my skull).
366. Refer to my book Shaykh al-mudirah.
367. He is one of the three Abds who reported from Ka'b al-Ahbar. He got two Zamilahs of the books of Ahl al-Kitab, which he used to narrqate to people, the reason why most of leaders of Tabi'un refrained from reporting from him, and used to say to him: Never relate to us (anything) from the two Zamilahs. In regard of his Sahifah which he called al-Sadiqah (the truthful) and used to covet eagerly, it was only comprised of supplications and prayers, as stated by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. In its regard al-Mughirah said: "What pleases me is that its worth can never be in my view more than two fils" - (Ta'wil mukhtalif al-hadith, p.93).
368. Ibn Hajar, in Fath al-Bari, p.167, says: It was established that Abu Hurayrah was never writing down (hadith) and was never meorizing the Qur'an.
