Sunan Abi Dawood, known as Al-Sunan, is one of the six books of hadith and the four Sunnahs, which hold a prominent position among the Sunnis, as they are considered among the main sources of hadith for them.[1][2] It comes in position after the two Sahihs.(2) It was compiled by Imam Abu Dawood Sulayman ibn al-Ash’ath ibn Ishaq ibn Bashir ibn Shaddad ibn Amr al-Azdi al-Sijistani (202 AH - 817 AD / 275 AH - 888 AD).[3] Abu Dawood collected a number of hadiths in it, and its hadiths amounted to 5274 hadiths.[3] He selected it from five hundred thousand hadiths. [Abu Dawood was interested in the hadiths of rulings that the jurists used as evidence, and upon which the scholars of the regions built the jurisprudential rulings, as he said in his letter to the people of Mecca: “These hadiths are all hadiths of the Sunnah regarding rulings, as for many hadiths regarding asceticism and virtues, and other than this, I did not include them.”[5] He divided his book into 36 books, and divided each book into chapters, numbering 1871 chapters, and translated each hadith according to what the scholars had deduced from it. The book contains hadiths traced back to the Prophet Muhammad, as well as hadiths attributed to the Companions, and traces attributed to the scholars of the Followers.[4][6].