Abu Hurayra lived the best days of his life during the reign of Mu’awiya. Mu’awiya realized many of this man’s hopes, so he told traditions as Mu’awiya liked. He told people incredible traditions about the virtues of Mu’awiya and some others.
Fabricated traditions exceeded the limits in the state of Mu’awiya according to what his media wanted and his policies needed to spite the Hashimites. The state of Mu’awiya had many liars fabricating prophetic traditions as the Prophet (S) had warned of. They were advanced in inventing traditions according to what they were inspired with by the rulers. The first of them was Abu Hurayra. He told people of abominable traditions talking about the virtues of Mu’awiya. One of those traditions was mentioned by Ibn Assakir in two ways, Ibn Adiy in two ways, Muhammad bin Aa’ith in a fifth way, Muhammad bin Abd as-Samarqandi in a sixth way, Muhammad bin Mubarak as-Souri in a seventh way and al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi in an eighth way that Abu Hurayra had said: “I heard the Prophet (S) saying: “Allah (swt) has entrusted three with His inspiration; me, Gabriel and Mu’awiya!”
And another mentioned by al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi that Abu Hurayra said: “The Prophet (S) gave Mu’awiya an arrow and said to him: “Take this arrow until you meet me in Paradise!”
Another mentioned by Abul-Abbas al-Waleed bin Ahmad az-Zouzani in his book Shajaratul-Aql, in two ways that Abu Hurayra had said: “I heard the Prophet (S) saying: “There will be a dome of white pearl with four doors for Abu Bakr. The wind of mercy flows through it. Its outside is Allah (swt)’s pardon and its inside is Allah (swt)’s contentment. Whenever he longs for Allah (swt), a shutter opens to look at Allah (swt) through it.”
Another mentioned by Ibn Habban that Abu Hurayra had said: “When the Prophet (S) came out from the cave towards Medina, Abu Bakr held his stirrup. He said: O Abu Bakr, may I tell you good news? In the Day of Resurrection, Allah (swt) appears to the creatures in general and appears to you privately!”
And what was mentioned by Ibn Habban that Abu Hurayra said: “While Gabriel was with the Prophet (S), Abu Bakr passed by them. Gabriel said: It is Abu Bakr. The Prophet (S) said: O Gabriel, do you know him? Gabriel said: He is in the heaven more famous than him on the earth. The angels call him the discerner of Quraysh. He is your minister in your life and the caliph after your death.”
Another tradition mentioned by al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi that Abu Hurayra said: “Prophet Muhammad (S) said: The angels rejoiced at the birth of Abu Bakr. Allah (swt) looked at the Garden of Eden and said: I swear by My glory and loftiness that I will not enter anyone into it except who loved this newborn baby.”
And another one mentioned by Ibn Adiy that Abu Hurayra said: “I heard the Prophet saying: When I ascended the heaven, in each sky I passed by I found that it was written; Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah (swt), Abu Bakr is…”[51]
Abul-Faraj ibn aj-Jawzi mentioned a tradition that Abu Hurayra had said: “The Prophet (S) told me that Paradise and Hell once prided. The Hell said to the Paradise: I am better than you for I have the Pharaohs, the tyrants, the kings and their progenies. Allah (swt) inspired to Paradise to say: I am better than you because Allah (swt) had adorned me for Abu Bakr.”
And another mentioned by al-Khateeb that Abu Hurayra had said: “One day the Prophet got out leaning on Ali bin Abu Talib. They met Abu Bakr and Omar. The Prophet said to Ali: Do you love these two men? Ali(as) said: yes, I do. The Prophet (S) said to Ali (as): Love them in order to enter Paradise!”
Another one mentioned by al-Khateeb in his book History of Baghdad and by Ibn Shahin in his Sunan in two ways that Abu Hurayra said: “I heard the Prophet (S) saying: “There are in the lower heaven eighty thousand angels asking Allah (swt) to forgive whoever loves Abu Bakr and Omar and in the second heaven there are eighty thousand angels cursing whoever hates Abu Bakr and Omar.”
Another one mentioned by al-Khateeb that Abu Hurayra said: “I heard the Prophet (S) saying: Allah (swt) has seventy thousand angels in the heaven cursing whoever curses Abu Bakr and Omar.”
All these traditions are untrue. All of those who mentioned them declared unanimously that they were null.
As-Sayouti arranged all the fabricated traditions according to their series of narrators and texts in his book al-La’ali al-Massnou’a. But they always defended Abu Hurayra by blaming the others who narrated from Abu Hurayra according to their point of view that every Muslim saw the Prophet (S) or narrated from him was infallible!
They did the same with all what Abu Hurayra’s imagination had invented, like his saying: “I heard the Prophet (S) saying: This is Gabriel telling me, from Allah (swt), that whoever loves Abu Bakr and Omar is a pious believer and whoever hates them is a rogue hypocrite.”[52]
Abu Hurayra said: “The Prophet (S) said: Allah (swt) had created me of His light and created Abu Bakr of my light and created Omar of the light of Abu Bakr and created my nation of Omar’s light. Omar is the lamp of people in Paradise.”[53]
He also said: “I heard the prophet saying: Abu Bakr and Omar are the best of the first and the last Muslims.”[54]
And his saying: “The prophet said: My companions are like the stars. Whoever imitates some of them will be guided.”[55]
And his saying: “The Prophet (S) said: There was a chapter in the Bible describing me and my companions; Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman and Ali… as seed‑produce that puts forth its sprout…”[56]
And many others that he let his imagination go here and there to invent. Al-Bukhari and Muslim’s[57] books of Hadith had many many of the likes.
Notes:
[51] Also mentioned by al-Khateeb in his book History of Baghdad, vol.5, pg.445.
[52] This tradition was considered to be untrue unanimously. Ath-Thahabi mentioned this tradition in his book Mizan al- I’tidal (in Ibrahim bin Malik al-Ansari’s biography) and said that it was untrue. Every one used nullity to fight the rightness, he, no doubt, would lose.
[53] This tradition was also considered to be untrue unanimously. Ath-Thahabi mentioned it in his book Mizan al-I’tidal (biography of Ahmed as-Samarqandi). Refer to it to see that it was untrue and that it contradicted the holy Qur’an. And they lost, who wanted to hide the clear rightness by the shameful nullity.
[54] This is like the two previous in nullity. Ath-Thahabi mentioned it in Mizan al-I’tidal (Jeiroun bin Waqid’s biography) and said it was null.
[55] Ath-Thahabi mentioned this tradition in his Mizan (biography of the judge, Ja’far bin abdul-Wahid) and said it was one of Abu Hurayra’s afflictions.
[56] It was mentioned in ath-Thahabi’s Mizan (biography of Muhammad bin Musa bin Atta’ ad-Dimyatti) but they always blamed the others who narrated from Abu Hurayra! The tradition included a Qur’anic verse, 48:29.
[57] Muslim, here, is a name of someone who collected the Hadith in a book called Sahih.
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