Arabic: Sunan Abu Dawood

Sunan Abu Dawood is one of the Kutub as-Sittah, and its distinguishing feature is its purpose.

Where Al-Bukhari and Muslim selected for authenticity above all, Imam Abu Dawood gathered the hadith bearing on ahkam — legal rulings derived directly from the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ. His method was precise and his selection deliberate, and the result became a foundational reference for Islamic jurisprudence rather than only for hadith study.

That focus makes it the collection a student of fiqh reaches for first among the four Sunan, and the reason it has never been displaced in the seven centuries since.

The Six Canonical Collections in Arabic

We stock the Kutub as-Sittah individually in Arabic:

• صحيح البخاري — Sahih Al-Bukhari
• صحيح مسلم — Sahih Muslim
• جامع الترمذي — Jami' At-Tirmidhi
• سنن ابن ماجه — Sunan Ibn Majah
• سنن النسائي — Sunan An-Nasa'i

All six are also available bound together in Al-Kutub As-Sittah — one volume, and gathered by subject in Al-Jami' Al-Kamil, 12 volumes.

Related Reading

• Riyad-us-Saliheen — about 2,000 hadith selected from all six collections
• Bulugh Al-Maram — the hadith of legal rulings, compiled by Ibn Hajar
• Fath Al-Bari — Ibn Hajar's commentary on Sahih Al-Bukhari

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