Ibn Jurayj reported—from someone who told him—that Abū Hurayrah said, “I divide the night into three parts: one part for reciting the Qur’an, one part for sleep, and one part for reviewing the hadith of the Messenger of Allah.” (1)

Muḥammad ibn Saʿd said: Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us, Isḥāq ibn ʿUthmān al-Qurashī narrated to us, Abū Ayyūb narrated to us: “Abū Hurayrah had a place of prayer in his sleeping-chamber, another in his house, another in his private room, and one at the doorway of his home. Whenever he went out he would pray in each of them, and whenever he returned he would pray in each of them.” (2)

ʿIkrimah said, “Abū Hurayrah used to pronounce twelve thousand tasbīḥs (utterances of ‘Subḥān Allāh’) every night, saying, ‘I glorify Allah in a number equal to my diyah (blood-money).’” (3)

Hushaym narrated, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from Maymūn ibn Maysarah, who said: “Abū Hurayrah would cry out twice each day. At daybreak he would call, ‘The night has gone, the day has come, and the people of Pharaoh are presented to the Fire.’ When evening fell he would call, ‘The day has gone, the night has come, and the people of Pharaoh are presented to the Fire.’ No one heard his voice without seeking refuge with Allah from the Fire.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak said: Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah narrated to us, from Ziyād ibn Thawbān, from Abū Hurayrah, who said, “Do not envy a sinner for the favor he enjoys, for hotly pursuing him is a relentless claimant: Hell—‘Whenever it subsides, We intensify its blaze for them.’” (5)

Ibn Lahīʿah narrated, from Abū Yūnus, from Abū Hurayrah: On one occasion he led the people in prayer. When he concluded with the salām he raised his voice and said, “Praise be to Allah who has made the religion upright and has made Abū Hurayrah an imam, after I had once been a hired servant for the daughter of Ghazwān, paid only with a full stomach and the carrying of my legs.” (6)

Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Harbī said: ʿAffān narrated to us, Sulaym ibn Ḥayyān narrated to us: I heard my father relate from Abū Hurayrah, who said, “I grew up an orphan, emigrated as a poor man, and served the daughter of Ghazwān for nothing but the food that filled my belly and the very steps of my feet. (7) I would sing for them when they rode and gather firewood for them when they dismounted. So praise be to Allah who has made the religion upright and has made Abū Hurayrah—”