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Sunan Abu Dawood (an authentic collection of Hadith)

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      One of the Kutub Al-Sittah Collections, the Sunan Abu Dawood is collected by Abu Dawood. He composed twenty-one volumes related to Hadith and refined those which had genuine affirmation from the companions (Sahaba) of Allah’s Apostle. He collected 500,000 hadiths but included only 4,800 in this collection while on the other hand he also states under as for the contradictory ahadith “Meat getting for pilgrims by hunting”. The interpretation of such statement is obviously that, weak hadiths are like wrong information for the people who seek the accuracy of Prophet’s sayings.  Eventually, he composed some of the narrations by the help of Bukhari and Muslim which were fulfilled the conditions of Bukhari as well as Muslim. He spent 20 years to collect the hadiths by making the series of journeys to meet most of the foremost traditionalists of his time. Thus, today the Muslims are owed to the contribution of Abu Dawood who solved those complications whic...