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 381
Narrated Abdullah ibn Ma'qil ibn Muqarrin: A bedouin prayed with the Prophet (ﷺ). He then narrated the tradition (No 038…
Sunan Abi Dawud 382
Ibn 'Umar said:I used to sleep in the mosque in the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when I was young and bachelor…
Sunan Abi Dawud 383
Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu'minin: The slave-mother of Ibrahim ibn AbdurRahman ibn Awf asked Umm Salamah, the wife of…
Sunan Abi Dawud 384
Narrated A woman of the Banu AbdulAshhal: She reported: I said Messenger of Allah, our road to the mosque has an unpleas…
Sunan Abi Dawud 385
Abu Hurairah reported:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: When any one of you treads with his sandal upon an unclean place,…
Sunan Abi Dawud 386
Abu Hurairah reported the tradition to the same effect from the Prophet (ﷺ):When any of you treads with his shoes upon s…
Sunan Abi Dawud 387
Aishah reported a similar tradition from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
Sunan Abi Dawud 388
Umm Jahdar al-'Amiriyyah said that she asked 'Aishah about the blood of menses which drops on the clothe. She replied:I …
Sunan Abi Dawud 389
Narrated AbuNadrah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) spat on his clothe and scrubbed with a part of it
Sunan Abi Dawud 390
A similar tradition has also been narrated by Anas from the Prophet (ﷺ) through a different chain of narrators
Sunan Abi Dawud 391
Talhah b. 'Ubaid Allah said:A man from among the people of Najd with disheveled hair came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).…
Sunan Abi Dawud 392
This tradition has also been reported by Abu Suhail Nafi' b. Malik b. Abi 'Amir through a different chain of narrators. …
Sunan Abi Dawud 393
Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Gabriel (ﷺ) led me in prayer at the House (i.e. the Ka'bah…
Sunan Abi Dawud 394
Ibn Shihab said:'Umar b. 'Abdul 'Aziz was sitting on the pulpit and he somewhat postponed the afternoon prayer. 'Urwah b…
Sunan Abi Dawud 395
Abu Musa reported:A man asked the Prophet (ﷺ) [about the prayer times] but he did reply to him but he commanded Bilal, w…
Sunan Abi Dawud 396
Abd Allah b. 'Amr reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying:The time of the Zuhr prayer is as along as the time of the 'Asr pra…
Sunan Abi Dawud 397
Muhammad b. 'Amr b. al-Hasan reported:We asked Jabir about the time of the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He said…
Sunan Abi Dawud 398
Abu Barzah reported:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would offer the Zuhr prayer when the sun had passed the meridian; he woul…
Sunan Abi Dawud 399
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: I would offer my noon prayer with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and took a handful of gravels …
Sunan Abi Dawud 400
Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud: The extent of the shadow when the Messenger of Allah prayed (the noon prayer) was three to…