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 441
Abu Qatadah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying:There is no remissness in sleep, it is only when one is awake …
Sunan Abi Dawud 442
Anas b. Malik reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying:If any one forgets a prayer or oversleeps, he should observe it when he…
Sunan Abi Dawud 443
Imran b. Husain said:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was on his journey. They (the people) slept abandoning the Fajr prayer. …
Sunan Abi Dawud 444
Narrated Amr ibn Umayyah ad-Damri: We were in the company of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) during one of his journeys. He o…
Sunan Abi Dawud 445
Dhu Mikhbar al-Habashi, who used to serve the Prophet (ﷺ), reported a version of the previous tradition. The Prophet (ﷺ)…
Sunan Abi Dawud 446
This tradition has also been transmitted through another chain of narrators by Dhu Mikhbar, the nephew of the Negus. Thi…
Sunan Abi Dawud 447
Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud: We proceeded with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) on the occasion of al-Hudaybiyyah. The Messen…
Sunan Abi Dawud 448
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: I was not commanded to build high mosques. Ibn Abbas said: You will certainly adorn them as…
Sunan Abi Dawud 449
Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Last Hour will not come until people vie with one another about mosqu…
Sunan Abi Dawud 450
Narrated Uthman ibn Abul'As: The Prophet (nay peace be upon him) commanded him to build a mosque at Ta'if where the idol…
Sunan Abi Dawud 451
Abd Allah b. 'Umar reported:The mosque (of the Prophet) during his lifetime was built with bricks, its roof with branche…
Sunan Abi Dawud 452
Ibn 'Umar reported:The pillars of the mosque of the Prophet (ﷺ) during the life time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) were …
Sunan Abi Dawud 453
Anas b. Malik reported:Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came over to Medina and encamped at the upper side of Medina among the tri…
Sunan Abi Dawud 454
Anas b. Malik said:The Mosque (of the Prophet) was built in the land of Banu al-Najjar which contained crops, palm trees…
Sunan Abi Dawud 455
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded us to build mosques in different localities (i.e. i…
Sunan Abi Dawud 456
Samurah reported that he wrote (a letter) to his sons:After (praising Allah and blessing the Prophet) that: The Messenge…
Sunan Abi Dawud 457
Narrated Maymunah ibn Sa'd: I said: Messenger of Allah, tell us the legal injunction about (visiting) Bayt al-Muqaddas (…
Sunan Abi Dawud 458
Abu al-Walid said:I asked Ibn 'Umar about the gravel spread pin the mosque. He replied: One night the rain fell and the …
Sunan Abi Dawud 459
Abu Salih said:It was said that when a man removed gravels from the mosque, they adjured him
Sunan Abi Dawud 460
Abu Hurairah reported (Abu Bakr said that in his opinion he narrated this tradition from the Prophet):The gravels adjure…