Imam Abu Dawud The Sunan Name Kunyah Abu

Imam Abu Daw’ud The Sunan

Name �Kunyah � Abu Daw’ud �Name � Sulimaan ibn Ash’aath ibn Isaaq ibn Bashir Ibn Shadaadh ibn Amr Azdi Sijistaani �Azdi � Yemeni Tribe

Early Life �Born 202 �Died 275 in Basra �Travelled to Baghdad aged 18 �Teachers � More than 300 � Imam Ahmad major influence � Qanabi � Qutibaah � Muhammad ibn Bashaar (Bundaar)

Students and written works �His son : Abdullah �Tirmidhi �Nasai �Ahmad �Sunan �Maraseel �Questions to Ahmad

Praise � Musa ibn Harun � … he was created for hadith in the world and paradise in the hereafter…. . � The Imam of the scholars of hadith Haakim ibn Hibaan …. Hadith made easy for him like hadeed was made easy for Dawood(as)

Imam Ahmad �Significant influence of Imam Ahmad �Preference to the fiqh of Ahmad in his Sunan �Presented the Sunan to Imam Ahmad who approved of it. �Scholars were of two types �Dirayaah �Riwaayah

The Sunan �Its place and rank �Main objective �Hadith worthy of proof to act on / basis of Fiqh rulings

Features �Risalaah to the people of Maakah �Abridges lengthy hadith and sanads �Quotes additional hadith to clarify things and bring extra information �Chapter headings � Can also make inference to a fiqh ruling – even though the hadith under the chapter heading has no relationship to the chapter heading.

Features II �Explains words of hadith if need be �Puts extra information about people in the sanad if need be �Arranged according to the chapters of Fiqh � Sunan

Hadith in the Sunan �Proof for the Imams of Fiqh �Abstains from weak and unacceptable narrations �If weakness explains it. � 500, 000 hadith �Chose roughly 5000 for his Sunan �Mentions four are enough for a persons religion