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 541
Abu Hurairah reported:when the Iqamah was pronounced for prayer during the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), the peopl…
Sunan Abi Dawud 542
Humaid reported :I asked Thabit al-Bunani whether it was permissible for a man to talk after the qamah had been pronounc…
Sunan Abi Dawud 543
‘Awn b. Kahmas reported on the authority of his father Kahmas :we stood for praying at Mina when the Imam had not come o…
Sunan Abi Dawud 544
Anas reported :the Iqamah was pronounced (for the night prayer) and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) remained engaged in talki…
Sunan Abi Dawud 545
Abu al-Nadr said:when the Iqamah was pronounced and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw that they (the people) were small in …
Sunan Abi Dawud 546
This tradition has been transmitted through a different chain of narrators in a similar way by ‘Ali b. Abi Talib
Sunan Abi Dawud 547
Narrated AbudDarda': I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If there are three men in a village or in the desert among …
Sunan Abi Dawud 548
Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying; I thought to give orders for arranging prayer in congregatio…
Sunan Abi Dawud 549
Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying:I thought about giving orders to some youths for gathering a …
Sunan Abi Dawud 550
Abd Allah b. Mas’ud said:Persevere in observing these five times of prayer where the announcement for them is made, beca…
Sunan Abi Dawud 551
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: If anyone hears him who makes the call to prayer and is not prevented from joining the cong…
Sunan Abi Dawud 552
Narrated Amr ibn Za'dah, Ibn Umm Maktum: Ibn Umm Maktum asked the Prophet (ﷺ) saying: Messenger of Allah, I am a blind m…
Sunan Abi Dawud 553
Narrated Ibn Umm Maktum: Messenger of Allah, there are many venomous creatures and wild beasts in Medina (so allow me to…
Sunan Abi Dawud 554
Narrated Ubayy ibn Ka'b: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) led us in the dawn prayer one day. And he said: Is so and so present…
Sunan Abi Dawud 555
‘Uthman b. ‘Affan reported the Messenger of Allah (may peace be him) as saying; if anyone says the night prayer in congr…
Sunan Abi Dawud 556
Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The further one is from the mosque , the greater will be one's reward
Sunan Abi Dawud 557
Ubayy b. Ka’b said:There was a certain person, out of all people of Medina, who used to pray in the mosque. I do not kno…
Sunan Abi Dawud 558
Narrated AbuUmamah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: If anyone goes out from his house after performing ablution for say…
Sunan Abi Dawud 559
Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying:Prayer said by a man in congregation is twenty five degrees m…
Sunan Abi Dawud 560
Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri: Prayer in congregation is equivalent to twenty-five prayers (offered alone). If he prays in…