Abu Dawud al-Sijistani

أبو داود السجستاني

c. 817 CE · 202 AH – c. 889 CE · 275 AH

The muhaddith of Sijistan, author of the Sunan counted among the six books; he travelled for hadith to Basra, Baghdad, Khurasan, al-Sham and Egypt, and restricted his collection to the reports bearing on rulings, arranged by legal chapter.

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Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: أبو جعفر الترمذي · Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya · Ibn Abi Usama, al-Harith ibn Muhammad · محمد بن نصر المروزي · Ibn Khurradadhbih, Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah

Scripture and its sciences

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موجز

أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث السجستاني محدّث سجستان، صاحب سنن أبي داود، أحد الكتب الستة. ولد نحو سنة 202هـ وتوفي نحو سنة 275هـ (التحويل مشتق). 1

رحلته وكتابه

رحل في طلب الحديث حتى أدرك البصرة وبغداد وخراسان والشام ومصر. واقتصر في كتابه على أحاديث الأحكام، مرتبة على أبواب الفقه. 1

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Sunan Abi Dawud

People and things also explored

The Six Books· Sunan Abi Dawud· The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity

Sources

  1. Sunan Abi Dawud
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The Six Books

The 'six books' of later convention: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, Jami' al-Tirmidhi, Sunan al-Nasa'i and Sunan Ibn Majah — the principal chapter-arranged hadith collections that became the community's widest hadith reference from the fifth century; some lists substitute the Muwatta or the Musnad of Ahmad for Ibn Majah.