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 361
Asma' daughter of Abu Bakr said:A woman asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): Messenger of Allah, what do you think if the c…
Sunan Abi Dawud 362
This tradition has been transmitted by Hisham through a different chain of narrators to the same effect:Rub it off (with…
Sunan Abi Dawud 363
Narrated Umm Qays daughter of Mihsan: I asked the Prophet (ﷺ) about the blood of menstruation on the clothe. He said: Er…
Sunan Abi Dawud 364
Aishah said:One of us would have a shirt in which she would menstruate and in it she became sexually defiled. Then if sh…
Sunan Abi Dawud 365
Abu Hurairah reported that Khawlah daughter of Yasar came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said:Messenger of Allah, I have only on…
Sunan Abi Dawud 366
Narrated Umm Habibah: Mu'awiyah ibn AbuSufyan asked his sister Umm Habibah, the wife of the Prophet (ﷺ): Would the apost…
Sunan Abi Dawud 367
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would not pray in our wrappers or in our quilts. Ubaydullah s…
Sunan Abi Dawud 368
Aishah said:The Prophet (ﷺ) would not in our quilts. Hammad said: I heard Sa'id b. Abi Sadaqah say: I asked Muhammad (b.…
Sunan Abi Dawud 369
Maimunah reported:The Prophet (ﷺ) prayed on a sheet of cloth put on by one of his wives who was menstruating. He was pra…
Sunan Abi Dawud 370
Aishah said:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would pray at night while I lay by his side during my menstrual period. A sheet o…
Sunan Abi Dawud 371
Hammam b. al-Harith reported, he has a sexual dream when he was staying with 'Aishah. The slave girl of 'Aishah saw him …
Sunan Abi Dawud 372
Aishah reported:I used to rub off the semen from the clothe of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He would would pray in it. Ab…
Sunan Abi Dawud 373
Sulaiman b. Yasar reported:I heard 'Aishah say that she would wash semen from the clothe of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). …
Sunan Abi Dawud 374
Umm Qais daughter of Mihsan reported that she came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) with her little son who had not attaine…
Sunan Abi Dawud 375
Narrated Lubabah daughter of al-Harith: Al-Husayn ibn Ali was (sitting) in the lap of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He pas…
Sunan Abi Dawud 376
Narrated AbusSamh: I used to serve the Prophet (ﷺ). Whenever he intended to wash himself, he would say: Turn your back t…
Sunan Abi Dawud 377
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: The urine of a female (child) should be washed and the urine of a male (child) should be spri…
Sunan Abi Dawud 378
Ali b. Abi Talib reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying:He narrated the tradition to the same effect, but he did not mention…
Sunan Abi Dawud 379
Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu'minin: Al-Hasan reported on the authority of his mother that she was Umm Salamah pouring …
Sunan Abi Dawud 380
Abu Hurairah reported:A bedouin entered the mosque while the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was sitting. He offered two rak'ahs …