Imam Abu Dawood Sulaiman bin Ash’ath Language: Arabic – English | Format: PDF | Volumes: 5 | Size: 51.4 MB
One of the six most authentic collections
of the Ahadith (Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sahih al-Tirmidhi,
Sunan Ibn Majah, Sunan Abu Dawud, and Sahih al-Nisa’i) It has 4800
Hadith (selected from a mass of 50,000) divided into many different
subjects, each Section containing many Hadith. The numbering system used
by Abu-Dawud is consecutive and uninterrupted for the entire collection
Abu Dawood, Sulaiman bin Al-Ash’ath bin
Ishaq Al-Azdi As-Sijistani, who was one of the eminent Imam of Hadeeth,
was born in 202H. He studied Hadeeth under Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal along
with Al-Bukhari and taught many of the later scholars of Hadeeth, like
At-Tirmidhi and An-Nasaa’ee.
Abu-Dawud lived a couple of centuries
after the Prophet’s death and worked extremely hard to collect his
ahadith. Each report in his collection was checked for compatibility
with the Qur’an, and the veracity of the chain of reporters had to be
painstakingly established. Abu-Dawud’s collection is recognized by the
overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to be one of the most
authentic collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh), however it is
also known to contain some weak ahadith (some of which he pointed out,
others which he did not).
Though Abu Dawood collected 50,000
Hadeeth, he compiled 4,800 Hadeeth only in his book entitled As-Sunan,
which he taught in Baghdad and other major cities at that time. He died
at Basra on Friday in the month of Shawwal 275 H. Sunan Abu Dawood has
been translated to English.
He was one of the most widely travelled
of the scholars of ahadith, going to Hijaz (Saudi Arabia), Iraq,
Khurasahn, Egypt, Syria, Nishapur, Marv, and other places for the sole
purpose of collecting ahadith. His primary interest was in law, hence
his collection focuses purely on legal ahadith. From about 50,000
ahadith, he chose 4,800 for inclusion in his work based on their
superior authenticity.
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