Sunan Abi Dawud, known as Al-Sunan, is one of the six major hadith collections and the four Sunan, which hold a prominent position among Sunni Muslims, as it is considered one of their primary sources of hadith.[1][2] It comes in the rank after the two Sahihs (Bukhari and Muslim).(2) It was compiled by Imam Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Ishaq ibn Bashir ibn Shaddad ibn Amr al-Azdi al-Sijistani (202 AH - 817 CE / 275 AH - 888 CE).[3] Abu Dawud collected in it a number of hadiths, and its hadiths amounted to 5274.[3] He selected it from five hundred thousand hadiths. Abu Dawud was interested in the hadiths of rulings that the jurists used as evidence, and upon which the scholars of the various regions based their legal rulings. He said in his letter to the people of Mecca: “These hadiths are all the hadiths of the Sunnah concerning rulings. As for the many hadiths on asceticism, virtues, and other matters, I did not include them.” [5] He divided his book into 36 books, and he divided each book into chapters, totaling 1871 chapters. He provided a translation for each hadith based on 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 sayings attributed to the scholars of the Successors. [4][6]