Abu Hurairah (RA) reported: I invited my mother, who was a polytlieist, to Islam. I invited her one day and she said to me something about Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) which I hated. I came to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) weeping and said: Allah's Messenger, I invited my mother to Islam but she did not accept (my invitation). I invited her today but she said to me something which I did not like. (Kindly) supplicate Allah that He may set the mother of Abu Hurairah (RA) right. Thereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: O Allah, set the mother of Abu Hurairah (RA) on the right path. I came out quite pleased with the supplication of Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and when I came near the door it was closed from within. My mother heard the noise of my footsteps and she said: Abu Hurairah (RA) , just wait, and I heard the noiee of falling of water. She took a bath and put on the shirt and quickly covered her head with a headdress and opened the door and then said: Abu Hurairah (RA) , I bear witness to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Mubammad is His bondsman and His Messenger. He (Abu Hurairah (RA)) said: I went back to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and (this time) I was shedding the tears of joy. I said: Allah's Messenger, be happy, for Allah has responded to your supplication and He has set on the right path the mother of Abu Hurairah (RA) . He (the Holy Prophet) praised Allah, and extolled Him and uttered good words. I said: Allah's Messenger, supplicate to Allah so that He may instil love of mine and that of my mother too in the believing servants and let our hearts be filled with their love, whereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: O Allah, let there be love of these servants of yours, i. e. Abu Hurairah (RA) and his mother, in the hearts of the believing servants and let their hearts be filled with the love of the believing servants. (Abu Hurairah (RA) said: This prayer) was so well granted by Allah that no believer was ever born who heard of me and who saw me but did not love me.

Al-A'raj reported that he heard Abu Hurairah (RA) as saying: You are under the impression that Abu Hurairah (RA) transmits so many ahadith from Allah's Messenger (may peace up upon him) ; (bear in mind) Allah is the great Reckoner. I was a poor man and I served Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) being satisfied with bare subsistence, whereas the immigrants remained busy with transactions in the bazar; while the Ansar had been engaged in looking after their properties. (He further reported) that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: He who spreads the cloth would not forget anything that he would hear from me. I spread my cloth until he narrated something. I then pressed it against my (chest), so I never forgot anything that I heard from him.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira but with the variation that the hadith transmitted on the authority of Malik conclude with the words of Abu Huraira and there is no mention of a transmission of these from Allah's Apostle (صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ): " who spreads his cloth," to the end.

'A'isha reported: Don't you feel surprised at Abu Huraira? He came (one day) and sat beside the nook of my apartment and began to narrate (the hadith of Allah's Apostle). I was hearing while I was engaged in extolling Allah (reciting Subhan Allah) constantly. He stood up before I finished my repetition of Subhan Allah. if I were to meet him I would have warned him in stern words that Allah's Messenger (صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) did not speak so quickly as you talk.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira (and the words are):You say that Abu Huraira narrates so many ahadith from Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) ; the rest of the hadith is the same.