Abu Bakr Burned 500 Hadith of the Prophet:

We read in Kanz al-ʿUmmāl fī Sunan al-Aqwāl wa-al-Afʿāl, Vol 10, Page 285:
ʿĀʾishah said:

“My father collected the hadiths of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and they amounted to five hundred hadiths. One night he spent turning restlessly. I became worried and said:
‘Are you turning because of illness or because something has reached you?’

When morning came, he said:
‘My daughter, bring me the hadiths that you have.’

So I brought them to him. Then he called for a fire and burned them.

He said: ‘I feared that I might die while they were with you, and that among them might be hadiths from a man whom I trusted and relied upon but who might not have narrated them as he told me. Thus I would bear responsibility for that.’”

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