Abu Dawood


Abū Dā’ūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath ibn Isḥāq al-Azdī al-Sijistānī أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث الأزدي السجستاني), commonly known simply as Abu Dawud, was a Arab scholar of prophetic hadith who compiled the third of the six "canonical" hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims, the Sunan Abu Dāwūd.
Student of Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal.

Biography

Abū Dā’ūd was born in Sijistān and died in 889 in Basra, Iraq. He traveled widely collecting ḥadīth from scholars in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Hijaz, Tihamah, Nishapur, and Merv among other places. His focus on legal ḥadīth arose from a particular interest in fiqh. His collection included 4,800 ḥadīth, selected from some 500,000. His son, Abū Bakr ‘Abd Allāh ibn Abī Dā’ūd, was a well known ḥāfiẓ and author of Kitāb al-Masābīh, whose famous pupil was Abū 'Abd Allāh al-Marzubānī.

School of thought and Quotes

Imam Abu Dawud was a follower of Hanbali although some have consider him Shafi.
Imam Abu Dawud himself has stated: "From this book of mine four Hadith are sufficient for an intelligent and insightful person. They are:
Principal among his twenty-one works:

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