The most popular opinion, voiced by Al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, is that it was 'Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr ( عبد الرحمن بن صخر). Later during the caliphate era, Abu Hurairah served as an ‘Ālim, governor, soldier, and Hadith Adam.Ību Hurairah was acknowledged by Muslim scholars for his extraordinary photographic memory which allowed him to memorize massive numbers of over 5,000 hadiths which later produced more than 500,000 chain narrations, or Isnad which make Abu Hurairah an exemplar role model for Hadith studies scholars.Ību Hurairah's personal name ( ism) is unknown, and so is his father's. He was known by the kunyah Abu Hurayrah 'Father of a Kitten', in reference to his attachment to cats, and he was a member of Suffah. He served as the Rashidun military governor of Bahrain during the reign of Caliph Umar. 603–679) was one of the companions of Islamic prophet Muhammad and, according to Sunni Islam, the most prolific narrator of hadith. Abd Ar-Rahman ibn Sakhr ( Arabic: عبدالرحمن بن صخر, romanized: Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr), also known as Abu Hurairah ( Arabic: أبو هريرة, romanized: Abū Hurayra c.