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| name = Abu Da'ud Sulayman ibn Ash`ath al-Azadi al-Sijistani| title= Abu Da'ud | birth = 202H 817CE | death = 275H 888CE| Maddhab =Sunni | school tradition =Shafi'i | Ethnicity =
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main_interests =hadith | influences = | influenced = | works = "Sunan Abi Da'ud "|Abu Da'ud or Abu Dawod, full name Abu Da'ud Sulayman ibn Ash`ath al-Azadi al-Sijistani, was a noted collector of
hadith (sayings/traditions ofMuhammad ), and wrote the third of the six canonical hadith collections recognized bySunni Muslims, "Sunan Abi Da'ud ". He was born inSijistan (Sistan or Sagestan,Afghanistan ) in 817, and died in 888. Widely travelled among scholars of ahadith, he went toIraq ,Egypt ,Syria ,Saudi Arabia ,Khurasan ,Nishapur , andMarv among other places in order to collect ahadith. He was primarily interested in law, and as a result the collection by him focuses largely on legal ahadith. From about 50,000 ahadith, he chose 4,800 for inclusion in his work based on their superior authenticity. "Sunan Abi Da'ud ", containing some 4800hadith , is his principal work, but he wrote some 21 books in total. Some of his hadith are not "sahih " (authentic), but he claimed that allhadith listed were "sahih " unless specifically indicated otherwise; this has been controversial among Islamic scholars, since some (e.g. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani) believe some of the unmarked ones to be weak as well. In another work, "Kitab al-Marasil", he lists 600 "mursal"hadith (that is, hadith lacking a complete chain of narrators, or "isnad ") which, after extensive background investigation, he concludes are nonetheless "sahih ".Works
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Sunan Abi Da'ud
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