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place after the permission of the Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, had been
given. Abdullah son of Amr mentioned (ref. Fat-h-Al Bari, vol. 1, page 148) that Abu
Hurairah had shown this collection to Abdullah son of Amr. For his own part, Abdullah
son of Amr said (ref. Abu Dawud, vol. 1, page 157) that he used to write down what he
heard from the Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, but when some of the
believers of the Koraysh tribe came to know about it, they tried to dissuade him from


doing so on the grounds that sometimes the Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him,
was pleased and at other times he did not encourage (If the Hadith‟s writer was involved
in writing the Koran). When the matter was referred to the Holy Prophet, praise and
peace be upon him, he pointed to his mouth and said: “By Allah, in no state can anything
untrue or unjust come out of it.” Rafey son of Khadij said (ref. Kanzul-Ammal vol. 11
page 223) that he was permitted by the Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, to
record his sayings. Likewise, Abdullah son of Masud recorded that which he heard from
the Prophet, and his record was shown to the people by his son Abdul Rahman. The
Prophetic Quotations (Hadith) quoted by yet another companion, Anas, were written
down by his student Aban (ref. Darmi, page 68). The gathering of these scattered Hadith
and those people who had memorized was initiated by the “Tabieen”, the people who