Sunnan Abu Dawood

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Sunni six major collections (Al-Kutub al-Sittah): Sahih al-Bukhari Sahih Muslim al-Sunan al-Sughra Sunan Abu Da'ud Sunan al-Tirmidhi Sunan Ibn Maja/Al-Muwatta Shi'a collections: Nahj al-Balagha "The Four Books" (Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah) Usul al-Kafi and Furu al-Kafi of Kulayni Man la Yahduruhu' l-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq Tahdhibu 'l-Ahkam by al-Tusi al-Istibsar by al-Tusi Ibadi collections: al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani
Sunni collections
Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal — 780-855 Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah — 923 Sahih Ibn Hibbaan — 965 Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain — 1014 Mawdu'at al-Kubra— 1128-1217 Riyadh as-Saaliheen — 1233 - 1278 Talkhis al-Mustadrak — 1274-1348 Majma al-Zawa'id — 1335-1405 Bulugh al-Maram — 1372-1449 Kanz al-Ummal — 1500th Da'if al-Tirmidhi — 20th century Sahih al-Tirmidhi — 20th century
Shi'a collections
The book of Sulaym ibn Qays — 600th Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya — 678-713 Bihar al-Anwar — 1600s Haqq al-Yaqeen — 1600s Sharh Usul al-Kafi — ?-1081 Jesus through Shiite Narrations — ?
Mu'tazili collections
Nahj with comments — ?-1258

Sunan Abu Da'ud (Arabic: سُنن أبو داوود‎) is one of the Sunni Six Major Hadith collections , collected by Abu Da'ud.

1 Collection
2 Notable aħadith included
3 Translations
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Collection

Abu Da'ud declared some of Hadiths in his book to be unauthentic, which makes his book different from Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. The author collected 50,000 hadith, but included only 4,800 in this collection.

Sunni regard this collection as fourth in strength of their Six major Hadith collections [1]. Shi'a value each hadith in it individually.

[edit] Notable aħadith included

Hadith of the ten promised paradise
Hadith of the Twelve Successors
Hadith of Abu Bakr leading the prayer
Some hadith regarding Aisha's age at marriage.
Some hadith regarding Amr ibn al-A'as.

In ahadith 785 and 786, Uthman Ibn Affan is reported as regarding chapters 8 and 9 as a contiguous chapter based on the absence of the basmala from the beginning of chapter 9 and on their similar subject matter ("Uthman replied: '...Al-Bara'ah was revealed last in the Qur'an, and its contents were similar to those of Al-Anfal. I therefore thought that it is a part of Al-Anfal. Hence I put them in the category of the seven lengthy suras and I did not write...' (basmala) '...between them.'").

In hadith 787, Ibn Abbas, is reported as defining a chapter by the presence of the basmala at its start ("Ibn Abbas said: 'The Prophet did not distinguish between two suras until the...' (basmala) '...was revealed to him.'").

These ahadith explain:

- the absence of the basmala from the beginning of chapter 9 only;

- the very short length of chapter 8 compared with other early chapters (chapter 2 has 286 verses, chapter 3:200, 4:176, 5:120, 6:165, 7:206, 8:75, 9:129, 10:109, 11:123, 12:111, 13:43, 14:52, 15:99, etc. – the Qur’an being generally arranged in groups of similar chapter length);

- the very similar subject matter of chapters 8 and 9 (jihad / striving in God’s cause).