One of the Six Canonical Hadith Collections (Kutub al-Sittah). Abu Dawud selected approximately 5,274 hadith from a corpus of 500,000. Particularly valued in Islamic jurisprudence for its coverage of legal rulings.
Source & Attribution
Hadiths
5,274 total
Sunan Abi Dawud 2741
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent us along with an army towards Najd, and he sent a detachment…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2742
Al Walid bin Muslim said “I narrated this tradition (mentioned above) to Ibn Al Mubarak and said “And similarly it has b…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2743
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent a detachment to Najd. I went out along with them, and got ab…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2744
Nafi’ reported on the authority of ‘Abd Allaah bin ‘Umar “The Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) sent a detachment towards Najd. ‘Abd …
Sunan Abi Dawud 2745
‘Abd Allaah (bin ‘Umar) said “The Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) sent us along with a detachment. The share of each was twelve Cam…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2746
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to give to some of the detachments he sent out (something ex…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2747
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went out on the day of Badr along with three hundred and fifteen …
Sunan Abi Dawud 2748
Narrated Habib ibn Maslamah al-Fihri: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would give a third of the spoils after he would keep of…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2749
Narrated Habib ibn Maslamah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to give a quarter of the booty as reward after the fifty ha…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2750
Narrated Habib ibn Maslamah al-Fihri: Makhul said: I was the slave of a woman of Banu Hudhayl; afterwards she emancipate…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2751
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Muslims are equal in respect of blood. The lowest…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2752
Salamah (bin Al ‘Akwa) said “Abd Al rahman bin ‘Uyainah raided the Camels of the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) and killed their h…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2753
Narrated Ma'an ibn Yazid: AbulJuwayriyyah al-Jarmi said: I found a red pitcher containing dinars in Byzantine territory …
Sunan Abi Dawud 2754
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by ‘Asim bin Kulaib through a different chain of narrators to th…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2755
Narrated Amr ibn Abasah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) led us in prayer facing a camel which had been taken in booty, and w…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2756
Ibn ‘Umar reported the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) as saying “A banner will be hoisted for a treacherous man on the Day of Judg…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2757
Abu Hurarirah reported the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) as saying “A Muslim ruler is shield by which a battle is fought.”
Sunan Abi Dawud 2758
Narrated AbuRafi': The Quraysh sent me to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and when I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), Islam w…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2759
Narrated Amr ibn Abasah: Sulaym ibn Amir, a man of Himyar, said: There was a covenant between Mu'awiyah and the Byzantin…
Sunan Abi Dawud 2760
Narrated AbuBakrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone kills a man whom he grants protection prematurely, Allah will forbid…