Father of the Kitten
The Destitute Companion Who Starved Beside a Prophet and Remembered Every WordBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 6m
About this audiobook
He was the poorest man in the room, and he is the reason we know what was said in it.
You know what it is to be in the room and not in the minutes—doing the work without a title while others go off to things that matter.
This narrative biography tells the life of Abu Hurayrah built entirely from transmitted sources. Arriving in Medina with nothing, he slept on a stone platform with a stone tied to his belly from hunger. In four years beside the Prophet, he recorded more reports than anyone else—sparking fourteen centuries of debate.
Nothing in these pages is invented. The book takes the criticisms seriously, leaving a truth stranger and more moving than fiction.
• See what it costs to be the person in the room who is only listening
• Understand why a poor man had something no market stall could buy
• Find value in the work of your own life that nobody wrote down
He was poor, so he stayed. Everyone else had somewhere to be. Open the first page.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Spirituality and Religion
Length8 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
2Prologue
31. The Stone Against the Belly
42. The Boy Who Slept the Kitten in a Tree
53. Three Hundred Miles to a War Already Over
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64. The Shade
75. The Bowl
86. Two Verses
97. Spread Your Garment
108. The Word He Would Not Repeat
119. The Sound of Water Behind a Door
1210. The Years He Walked Behind
1311. The Monday the Talking Stopped
1412. Ten Thousand Dinars
1513. Make Way for the Amir
1614. The Speed of His Speech
1715. Or I Will Send You Back to Daws
1816. The Two Vessels
1917. Behind the Curtain
2018. Eight Hundred Mouths
2119. The Length of the Journey
2220. Five Thousand Three Hundred and Seventy-Four
23Epilogue
2421. Author’s Note
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