of Abū Hurayrah. When he reached the verse, “When the sun is rolled up” (81:1), he would recite it in a mournful, elegiac tone.

Maʿmar narrated—from Ayyūb, from Muḥammad—that Abū Hurayrah said to his daughter, “Do not wear gold, for I fear the blazing flame for you.” (1)

This report is soundly established from Abū Hurayrah. It suggests that he inclined toward prohibiting gold for women as well—or that, if a woman flaunts gold out of vanity and pride, it becomes unlawful for her, just as dragging one’s garment in arrogance is forbidden.

Muʿādh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh ibn Ubayy related—from his father, from his grandfather, from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb—that:

“Abū Hurayrah was bold with the Prophet ﷺ, asking him about matters we never asked.” (2)

Ibn ʿUmar likewise said, “O Abū Hurayrah, you were the most constant among us in the company of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and the most knowledgeable of us concerning his hadith.” (3)

Ibn Ḥazm states in al-Iḥkām fī Uṣūl al-Aḥkām: The Companions from whom a medium number of legal opinions have been transmitted are ʿUthmān, Abū Hurayrah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, Umm Salamah, Anas, Abū Saʿīd, Abū Mūsā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr, Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, Salmān, Jābir, Muʿādh, and Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq.

They are only thirteen in total, and from each of them one could compile no more than a small booklet of legal responses.