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 3161
Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He who washes the dead should take a bath, and he who carries him…
Sunan Abi Dawud 3162
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu Hurairah through a different chain of narrators to the sa…
Sunan Abi Dawud 3163
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) that he kissed Uthman ibn Maz'un while he was dead, and…
Sunan Abi Dawud 3164
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The people saw fire (light) in the graveyard and they went there. They found that the Messe…
Sunan Abi Dawud 3165
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: On the day of Uhud we brought the martyrs to bury them (at another place), but the crier of…