Do You Know? : The Seven Companions with the Most Narrations

In the Science of Hadith, particularly in the study of the chain of hadith narrators, the bulk of the chains stops at Seven Companions, who each transmitted over a thousand sayings of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. Anyone else narrated less than this number.

It is said that that none from this Ummah was blessed with a memory as strong as Abu Hurayrah رضي الله عنه. Throughout his life, he could always recall each hadith with precise accuracy, complete with the words and the circumstances regarding it, without any discrepancies whatsoever.

Abu Hurayrah رضي الله عنه narrates:

People say that Abu Hurayrah narrates so many ahadith from Allaah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم whereas Allaah is the Reckoner, and they say: How is it with Muhajirs and the Ansar that they do not narrate ahadith like him (like Abu Hurayrah)? 

Abu Hurayrah said: I tell you that my brothers from Ansar remained busy with their lands and my brothers from  Muhajirs were busy in transactions in the baazaars, but I always kept myself attached to Allaah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم with bare subsistence. I remained present (in the company of the Prophet), whereas they had been absent. I retained in my mind (what the Prophet said), whereas they forgot it. 

One day Allaah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said: He who amongst you spreads the cloth and listens to my talk and would then press it against his chest would never forget anything heard from me. So I spread my mantle and when he had concluded his talk I then pressed it against my chest and so I never forgot after that day anything that he (the Prophet) said. 

And if these two verses would not have been revealed in the Book I would have never transmitted anything (to anybody): "Those who conceal the clear evidence and the guidance that We revealed…." (Surah al-Baqarah : 159-160)

[Sahih Muslim : Book #31 : Hadith #6085]