سنن أبي داود
Sunan Abu Dawud
Compiled by Imam Abu Dawud Sulayman al-Sijistani (d. 275 AH / 889 CE)
One of the Six Books, with a particular focus on hadith relevant to Islamic law (fiqh).
Abu Dawud arranged his Sunan around legal and ritual topics, and was notably transparent about the reliability of the hadith he included, often noting his own concerns about a narration’s chain even while recording it.
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Abu Dawud arranged his Sunan around legal and ritual topics, and was notably transparent about the reliability of the hadith he included, often noting his own concerns about a narration’s chain even while recording it.
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Sunan Abu Dawud is organized into books (kutub) grouped by subject, each containing a chain-referenced hadith. On simplequran.net you can browse every book, read each hadith in Arabic alongside an English translation, and see the authenticity grade where the source data provides one. All hadith text is served from the free, open-source hadith-api project — no account or API key required.
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