Abu Maʿshar, Damrah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maghrāʾ, al-Haytham, and others dated his death to the year 58 AH.

Ibn Isḥāq, Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr, Abū ʿUbayd, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr placed it in 59 AH, in agreement with al-Wāqidī.

It was also said that the governor al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah led the funeral prayer for Abū Hurayrah after the ʿAṣr prayer; Ibn ʿUmar and Abū Saʿīd walked in the procession, and he was buried in al-Baqīʿ. ⦗1⦘

I have already mentioned him in Tabaqāt al-Qurrāʾ, noting that he had recited the Qur’an to Ubayy ibn Kaʿb. Among those who learned from him were al-Aʿraj, Abū Jaʿfar, and a number of others.

I also listed him in Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ, for he stands at the forefront in the Qur’an, the Sunnah, and jurisprudence.

Abū al-Qāsim al-Naḥḥās said: I heard Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd say, “While I was in Sijistān compiling the ḥadith of Abū Hurayrah, I saw in a dream Abū Hurayrah himself: his beard was thick, his complexion brown, and he wore coarse garments. I said to him, ‘I love you.’ He replied, ‘I was the very first man devoted to ḥadith in the world.’”

In al-Kunā of Abū Aḥmad ⦗2⦘ we find the report of Abū Bukayr Ibrāhīm, from an unnamed narrator, that whenever Abū Hurayrah—may Allah be pleased with him—found someone burdensome, he would say, “O Allah, forgive him and grant us relief.”