When Were Ḥadīth First Written?
Bukhārī related from Abī Hurayrah that he said, ‘None from amongst the Companions of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) had more ḥadīths than me, except for ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar. Verily he used to write, and I did not write.’
Ṣaḥiḥ al-Bukhārī
Al Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr said:1
Indeed, it is mentioned in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from Abī Saʿīd al-Khudrī in marfūʿ’2 form, ‘Whoever writes from me something other than the Qurʾān, then let him erase it.’
Ibnus al-Ṣalāh said, ‘And from what has been narrated to us about it is that it was disliked by: ʿUmar, and Ibn...
