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 3581
Narrated Adi ibn Umayrah al-Kindi: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: O people, if any of you is put in an administrative post on our…
Sunan Abi Dawud 3582
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent me to the Yemen as judge, and I asked: Messenger of Allah, ar…
Sunan Abi Dawud 3583
Umm Salamah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying:"I am only a human being, and you bring your disputes to me, s…
Sunan Abi Dawud 3584
Umm Salamah said:Two men came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who were disputing over their inheritance. They had no evide…
Sunan Abi Dawud 3585
Umm Salamah reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying when two men were disputing over inheritance and old things:I decide betw…