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[6399] 160 - (2493) It was narrated from 'Urwah bin Az-Zubair that 'Aīshah said: "Are you surprised that Abū Hurairah came and sat beside my apartment and narrated from the Prophet ﷺ so that I could hear it. But I was offering a voluntary prayer, and he left before I finished my prayer. If I had caught up with him I would have told him: 'The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ did not speak as quickly as you do.'" [6399]. (2492) Ibn Shihāb said: "Ibn Al-Mūsayyab said: 'Abū Hurairah said: "They say that Abū Hurairah narrates too much (Aḥādīth from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ), and the reckoning is with Allāh. They say: 'Why don't the Muhājirīn and Anṣār narrate as much as he does?' I will tell you about that. "My brothers among the Anṣār were busy working the land, and my brothers among the Muhājirīn were busy trading in the marketplace. But I used to stay close to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ in return for enough to eat. Hence I was present when they were absent, and I remembered when they forgot. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said one day: 'Who among you will spread out his cloak and listen to what I say, then gather it to his chest, then he will not forget anything that he hears.' So I spread out a garment that I was wearing, until he finished speaking, then I gathered it to my chest, and after that day I did not forget anything that he told me. Were it not for two verses that Allāh revealed in His Book, I would never have narrated anything: 'Verily, those who conceal Al-Bayyinât (the clear proofs, evidences) and the guidance, which We have sent down" to the end of the two Verses.[1]