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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Islamic hadith scholar (c. 817 – 889)}}<br />
{{other uses|Abu Dawud (disambiguation)}}<br />
{{Infobox religious biography<br />
| religion = [[Islam]]<br />
| era = [[Islamic golden age]] <br /> ([[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid era]])<br />
| image = Abu Da'ud al-Sijistani (d. 889 AD); Kitab al-sunan, probably Andalusia, 13th century.jpg<br />
| caption = Manuscript of al-Sijistani's ''Kitab al-sunan'', probably created in [[Al-Andalus]], dated 13th century<br />
| name = Abu Dawud al-Sijistani<br />
| birth_date = 817–18 CE / 202 AH<br />
| birth_place = [[Sistan]], [[Abbasid Caliphate]]<br />
| death_date = 889 CE / 275 AH<br />
| death_place = [[Basra]], Abbasid Caliphate<br />
| denomination = [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]]<br />
| school =<br />
| creed = <br />
| notable_ideas = <br />
| occupation = ''[[muhaddith]]''<br />
| main_interests = ''[[Hadith|ḥadīth]]'' and ''[[fiqh]]''<br />
| influences = [[Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Al-Bastawī|first=ʻAbd al-ʻAlīm ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm | title=Al-Imām al-Jūzajānī wa-manhajuhu fi al-jarḥ wa-al-taʻdīl|year=1990|publisher=Maktabat Dār al-Ṭaḥāwī|page=9}}</ref> [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]], [[Ali ibn al-Madini]], [[Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh]], [[Yahya ibn Ma'in]]<br />
| influenced = [[Tirmidhi]], [[Al-Nasa'i]]<br />
| works = ''[[Sunan Abī Dāwūd]]''<br />
| nationality = <br />
| region = <br />
}}<br />
'''Abū Dāwūd (Dā’ūd) Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath ibn Isḥāq al-Azdī al-Sijistānī''' ({{langx|ar|أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث الأزدي السجستاني}}), commonly known as '''Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī''', was a scholar of prophetic [[hadith]] who compiled the third of the [[Six major Hadith collections|six "canonical" hadith collections]] recognized by [[Sunni]] Muslims, the ''[[Sunan Abu Dawood|Sunan Abu Dāwūd]]''.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
A [[Persians|Persian]] of [[Arabs|Arab]] descent,<ref name=Frye1975>{{Cite book|last1=Frye|first1=R. N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC&q=history+iran+volume+4+cambridge|title=The Cambridge History of Iran|last2=Fisher|first2=William Bayne|last3=Frye|first3=Richard Nelson|last4=Avery|first4=Peter|last5=Boyle|first5=John Andrew|last6=Gershevitch|first6=Ilya|last7=Jackson|first7=Peter|date=1975-06-26|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-20093-6|page=471|quote=Abu Da'ud Sulaiman b. Ash'ath al-Sijistani, a Persian but of Arab descent, who died in 275/888-9.|language=en|access-date=2020-10-01|archive-date=2022-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708142525/https://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC&q=history+iran+volume+4+cambridge|url-status=live}}</ref> Abū Dā’ūd was born in [[Sistan]] and died in 889 in [[Basra]]. He travelled widely collecting [[hadith|ḥadīth]] (traditions) from scholars in numerous locations including [[Iraq]], [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Hijaz]], [[Tihamah]], [[Nishapur]] and [[Merv]]. His focus on legal ḥadīth arose from a particular interest in [[fiqh]] (law). His collection included 4,800 ḥadīth, selected from some 500,000. His son, Abū Bakr ‘Abd Allāh ibn Abī Dawud (died 928/929), was a well known ''[[Hafiz (Quran)|ḥāfiẓ]]'' and author of ''Kitāb al-Masābīh'', whose famous pupil was [[Al-Marzubānī|Abū 'Abd Allāh al-Marzubānī]].{{sfn|Nadīm (al)|1970|pp=164–6}}{{sfn|Khallikān (Ibn)|1843|loc=I|p=590}}<br />
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==School of thought and Quotes==<br />
Abu Dawud has stated: "From this book of mine four [[Hadith]] are sufficient for an intelligent and insightful person.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Imam Abu Dawud|url = http://www.sunnah.org/history/Scholars/imam_abu_dawud.htm|website = www.sunnah.org|access-date = 2016-02-21|archive-date = 2018-02-15|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180215093725/http://sunnah.org/history/Scholars/imam_abu_dawud.htm|url-status = dead}}</ref> They are:<br />
* Deeds are to be judged only by intentions.<ref>Shahih Al Bukhari, Imam Al Bukthari, Vol.1 Book 1 Hadith 1 <br />
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* Part of a man's good observance of Islam is that he leaves alone that which does not concern him.<br />
* None of you can be a believer unless you love for your brother that which you love for yourself.<br />
* The permitted (''halal'') is clear, and the forbidden (''haram'') is clear, between these two are doubtful matters. Whosoever abstains from these doubtful matters has saved his religion."<br />
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==Works==<br />
Principal among his twenty-one works are:<br />
*''[[Sunan Abu Dawood|Sunan Abu Dāwūd]]'': contains 4,800 [[hadith]]{{snd}}mostly [[Hadith terminology#Sahih|''sahih'']] (authenticated), some marked [[Hadith terminology#Da`if|''ḍaʿīf'']] (unauthenticated){{snd}}usually numbered after the edition of Muhammad Muhyi al-Din `Abd al-Hamid (Cairo: Matba`at Mustafa Muhammad, 1354 AH/1935 CE), where 5,274 are distinguished. Islamic scholar [[Ibn Hajar Asqalani|Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani]], and some others, believe a number of the unmarked hadith are [[Hadith terminology#Da`if|''ḍaʿīf'']].<br />
*''Kitab al-Marāsīl'' lists 600 extensively investigated [[Hadith terminology#Sahih|''sahih'']] [[Hadith terminology#Mursal|''mursal hadith'']].<br />
*''Risālat Abu Dāwūd ilā Ahli Makkah'': letter to the people of [[Mecca|Makkah]] describing his [[Sunan Abu Dawood|Sunan Abu Dāwūd]] collection.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dkh-islam.com/Content/Article.aspx?ATID=71 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819072727/http://www.dkh-islam.com/Content/Article.aspx?ATID=71 |url-status=dead |title=Translation of the ''Risālah'' by Abū Dāwūd |archive-date=August 19, 2009}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Kutub al-Sittah]]<br />
* [[Sunan Abu Dawood]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
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*{{cite book |last= Khallikān (Ibn) |author-link= Ibn Khallikan|first=Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad |title=Wafayāt al-A'yān wa-Anbā' Abnā' al-Zamān (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) |translator-last=[[William McGuckin de Slane|McGuckin de Slane]] |translator-first=William |place= Paris |publisher=Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland |year=1843 |pages=590–91 |volume=I |url= https://archive.org/stream/WafayatAlAyantheObituariesOfEminentMenByIbnKhallikan/Vol1Of4WafayatAl-ayantheObituariesOfEminentMenByIbnKhallikan#page/n629/mode/2up}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Nadīm (al)|author-link=Ibn al-Nadim|first= Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Abū Ya’qūb al-Warrāq| title=The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture|editor-last=[[Bayard Dodge|Dodge]] |editor-first=Bayard |place=New York & London|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1970|isbn=9780231029254|url=https://archive.org/details/fihristofalnadim0000ibna|url-access=registration}}<br />
*{{Cite book|last= Nawawī (al-)|first= Abū Zakarīyā’ Yaḥyā|title=Kitāb Tahdhīb al-Asmā' (Biographical Dictionary of Illustrious Men)|editor-last= [[Ferdinand Wüstenfeld|Wüstenfeld]] |editor-first=Ferdinand|place= Göttingen |publisher= London Society for the Publication of the Oriental Texts|orig-year=1842|year=1847|language=ar|page=708 Arabic|url=https://archive.org/details/b30092966/page/n175}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite encyclopedia|last=Abderrazzaq|first=Mohammad A.|title=Sijistānī, Abū Dāʿūd al-.|year=2009|encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-530513-5|editor1-last=Esposito|editor1-first=John L.|editor1-link=John L. Esposito|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195305135.001.0001/acref-9780195305135-e-1082?rskey=gkmm46&result=7}}<br />
* {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Bowker|first1=John|author1-link=John Bowker (theologian)|encyclopedia=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions|title=Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192800947.001.0001/acref-9780192800947-e-102?rskey=gkmm46&result=1|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-19-280094-7}}<br />
* {{cite encyclopedia|editor1-last=Esposito|editor1-first=John L.|editor1-link=John L. Esposito|title=Sijistani, Abu Daud al-|encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam |year=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512558-0|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195125580.001.0001/acref-9780195125580-e-2207?rskey=gkmm46&result=6}}<br />
* {{EI3|last1=Melchert|first1=Christopher|author1-link=Christopher Melchert|title=Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī|year=2007|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/abu-dawud-al-sijistani-SIM_0024}}<br />
* {{cite journal|last1=Melchert|first1=Christopher|author1-link=Christopher Melchert|date=2008|title=The Life and Works of Abu Dāwūd al-Sijistāni|journal=Al-Qantara|volume=29|issue=1|pages=9–44|doi=10.3989/alqantara.2008.v29.i1.48|doi-access=free}}<br />
* {{Encyclopaedia Islamica|last1=Pakatchi|first1=Ahmad|last2=Khodaverdian|first2=Shahram|title=Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī|year=2008|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-islamica/abu-dawud-al-sijistani-COM_0053?s.num=11&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-islamica&s.q=Maslama}}<br />
* {{cite journal|last1=Robson|first1=James|date=1952|title=The Transmission of Abū Dāwūd's 'Sunan'|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|volume=14|issue=3|pages=579–588|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00088534 |jstor=609117 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/609117}}<br />
* {{EI2|last=Robson|first=J.|title=Abū Dāʾūd al-Sid̲j̲istānī|volume=1|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/abu-daud-al-sidjistani-SIM_0172}}<br />
* {{cite encyclopedia|last=Thomas|first=David|editor-last=Thomas|editor-first=David|title=Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath al-Sijistānī|encyclopedia=Christian-Muslim Relations 600 – 1500|date=24 March 2010|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/christian-muslim-relations-i/*-COM_23760|publisher=Brill Online}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{Wikiquote}}<br />
* [http://www.muslimscholars.info/manage.php?submit=scholar&ID=30002 Biodata at MuslimScholars.info] * [https://sunnah.com/abudawud/about Biography at Sunnah.com]<br />
* [https://sunnah.com/abudawud/letter Letter from Imam Abu Dawud to the people of Makkah explaining his book, terms he uses, and his methodology.]<br />
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