What Was The Reason Behind Abu Huraira (rta) Taking Narrations From Jews ?
1 . This is wrong to assume that Abu Huraira (rta) was narrating israili narrations all that time. Infact, there are only 110 narrations from Abu Huraiar (rta) which are unique in their transmission and are not reported by any other Sahabi, all the other narrations of Abu Huraira (rta) have been supported by narrations of other Sahaba as well. It is true that there can still be problems in their transmission because of limtations of other narrators reporting them as per their undertsanding. The saying of the Prophet (sws) does not prohibit from narrating israili traditions, instead it is a saying of caution, that in the presence of Quran, Muslims should be careful in reporting such narrations, specially when there is no corroboration available in Quran. Either Quran verifies it, rejects it or is silent on the matter. Attitude of a Muslim should be according to the health of a narration in the light of Quran, established Sunnah, established history and in the light of established facts of reason and logic. 2 . Umar (rta) warned Abu Huraira many times for narrating the hadiths of the Messenger of Allah (sws), and said: I will send you back to the land of ‘ Daus ( دوس)’. He thought that if people’s attention is focused on the hadiths, then they will misunderstand them, find excuses and ignore the Quran. Once he called Abu Huraira (rta) and asked: Once you were with us in the house of so-and-so companion with the Messenger of Allah, may God bless him and grant him peace. Hazrat Abu Huraira replied: Yes, I know why you asked me this. Hazrat Umar said: Why have I asked? Hazrat Abu Hurairah said: The Messenger of Allah, may God bless him and grant him peace, said on that day: Whoever deliberately attributes a lie to me, let him make his abode hell ( Bukhari, No. 110. Ahmad, No. 9316. Musnad Abu Yala, No. 6116 ). Hazrat Umar said: There is no obstacle now, go and narrate hadiths. Generally, Hazrat Umar (rta) and many other prominent Sahaba (rta) had a very careful attitude while narrating ahadiths in general as opposed to some other Sahaba like Abu Huraira (rta) and others, but they never forcefully stopped others from doing so, all they did was make them realize that this is a big responsibilty and those Sahaba understood this responsibility and took it upon themselves to narrate hadiths of prophet muhammad (sws) because as per Abu Huraia (rta), it is his responsibilty to narrate Ahadiths in the light of Quran 2:159 ( https://sunnah.com/bukhari:118 ). When many of his narrations were corroborated by other Sahaba, this objection on him got diluted with time. Please also refer to the following responses of Ghamidi Sahab : Discussion 21789 • Reply 21981 Discussion 21789 • Reply 21985