Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
9th-century Persian Islamic hadith scholar
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
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Manuscript of al-Sijistani's
Kitab al-sunan
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Al-Andalus
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817–18 CE / 202 AH
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Died |
889 CE / 275 AH
Basra
, Abbasid Caliphate
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Religion | Islam |
Era |
Islamic golden age
( Abbasid era ) |
Denomination | Sunni |
School | Hanbali |
Creed | Athari [1] [2] |
Main interest(s) | ḥadīth and fiqh |
Notable work(s) | Sunan Abī Dāwūd |
Occupation | muhaddith |
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Abū Dāwūd (Dā’ūd) Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath ibn Isḥāq al-Azdī al-Sijistānī ( Arabic : أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث الأزدي السجستاني ), commonly known as Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī , was a scholar of prophetic hadith who compiled the third of the six "canonical" hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims, the Sunan Abu Dāwūd . He was a Persian speaker of Arab descent. [4]
Biography
Abū Dā’ūd was born in Sistan and died in 889 in Basra . He travelled widely collecting ḥadīth (traditions) from scholars in numerous locations including Iraq , Egypt , Syria , Hijaz , Tihamah , Nishapur and Merv . His focus on legal ḥadīth arose from a particular interest in fiqh (law). His collection included 4,800 ḥadīth, selected from some 500,000. His son, Abū Bakr ‘Abd Allāh ibn Abī Dā’ūd (died 928/929), was a well known ḥāfiẓ and author of Kitāb al-Masābīh , whose famous pupil was Abū 'Abd Allāh al-Marzubānī . [5] [6]
School of thought and Quotes
Imam Abu Dawud was a follower of Hanbali although some have considered him Shafi . [7]
Imam Abu Dawud has stated: "From this book of mine four Hadith are sufficient for an intelligent and insightful person. [8] They are:
- Deeds are to be judged only by intentions. [9]
- Part of a man's good observance of Islam is that he leaves alone that which does not concern him.
- None of you can be a believer unless you love for your brother that which you love for yourself.
- The permitted ( halal ) is clear, and the forbidden ( haram ) is clear, between these two are doubtful matters. Whosoever abstains from these doubtful matters has saved his religion."
Works
Principal among his twenty-one works are:
- Sunan Abu Dāwūd : contains 4,800 hadith – mostly sahih (authenticated), some marked ḍaʿīf (unauthenticated) – usually numbered after the edition of Muhammad Muhyi al-Din `Abd al-Hamid (Cairo: Matba`at Mustafa Muhammad, 1354 AH/1935 CE), where 5,274 are distinguished. Islamic scholar Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , and some others, believe a number of the unmarked hadith are ḍaʿīf .
- Kitab al-Marāsīl lists 600 extensively investigated sahih mursal hadith .
- Risālat Abu Dāwūd ilā Ahli Makkah : letter to the people of Makkah describing his Sunan Abu Dāwūd collection. [10]
- Kitāb al-Masāhif : catalogues non-Uthmanic variants of the Qur'an text.
See also
References
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↑
El Shamsy, Ahmed (2013). "Chapter 8: Canonization beyond the Shafi'i School".
The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History
. New York: Cambridge University Press. p.
197.
ISBN
978-1-107-04148-6
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Al-Buwayti... enjoyed the trust of traditionalist scholars such as Abu Dawud al-Sijistani and al-Humaydı as well as Ahmad b. Hanbal himself..
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Melchert, Christopher (1997). "Chapter 8: The Maliki School".
The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E
. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers. pp.
165–166.
ISBN
90-04-10952-8
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the later Iraqi traditionalist Abu Dawud says not only that he was weak..
- ↑ Al-Bastawī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlīm ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm (1990). Al-Imām al-Jūzajānī wa-manhajuhu fi al-jarḥ wa-al-taʻdīl . Maktabat Dār al-Ṭaḥāwī. p. 9.
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Frye, R. N.; Fisher, William Bayne; Frye, Richard Nelson; Avery, Peter; Boyle, John Andrew; Gershevitch, Ilya; Jackson, Peter (1975-06-26).
The Cambridge History of Iran
. Cambridge University Press. p.
471.
ISBN
978-0-521-20093-6
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Archived
from the original on 2022-07-08
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2020-10-01
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Abu Da'ud Sulaiman b. Ash'ath al-Sijistani, a Persian but of Arab descent, who died in 275/888-9.
- ↑ Nadīm (al) 1970 , pp. 164–6.
- ↑ Khallikān (Ibn) 1843 , p. 590, I.
- ↑ "Islamic Pedia - Abu Dawood Sijistani (202–275H) أبو داوود السجستاني" . Archived from the original on 2018-03-28.
- ↑ "Imam Abu Dawud" . www.sunnah.org . Archived from the original on 2018-02-15 . Retrieved 2016-02-21 .
- ↑ Shahih Al Bukhari, Imam Al Bukthari, Vol.1 Book 1 Hadith 1
- ↑ "Translation of the Risālah by Abū Dāwūd" . Archived from the original on August 19, 2009.
Bibliography
- Baghdādī (al-), Al-Khaṭīb Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī (2001). Ta'rīkh Madīnat al-Salām (Ta'rīkh Baghdād) (in Arabic). Vol. X, §4591. Beirut: Dār al-Gharib al-Islāmī. p. 75.
- Khallikān (Ibn), Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (1843). Wafayāt al-A'yān wa-Anbā' Abnā' al-Zamān (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) . Vol. I. Translated by McGuckin de Slane , William. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. pp. 590–91.
- Nadīm (al), Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Abū Ya’qūb al-Warrāq (1970). Dodge , Bayard (ed.). The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture . New York & London: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231029254 .
- Nawawī (al-), Abū Zakarīyā’ Yaḥyā (1847) [1842]. Wüstenfeld , Ferdinand (ed.). Kitāb Tahdhīb al-Asmā' (Biographical Dictionary of Illustrious Men) (in Arabic). Göttingen: London Society for the Publication of the Oriental Texts. p. 708 Arabic.
Further reading
- Abderrazzaq, Mohammad A. (2009). "Sijistānī, Abū Dāʿūd al-." . In Esposito, John L. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-530513-5 .
- Bowker, John (2000). "Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī" . The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280094-7 .
- Esposito, John L. , ed. (2003). "Sijistani, Abu Daud al-" . The Oxford Dictionary of Islam . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512558-0 .
- Melchert, Christopher (2007). "Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī" . In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830 .
- Melchert, Christopher (2008). "The Life and Works of Abu Dāwūd al-Sijistāni" . Al-Qantara . 29 (1): 9–44. doi : 10.3989/alqantara.2008.v29.i1.48 .
- Pakatchi, Ahmad; Khodaverdian, Shahram (2008). "Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī" . In Madelung, Wilferd ; Daftary, Farhad (eds.). Encyclopaedia Islamica Online . Brill Online. ISSN 1875-9831 .
- Robson, James (1952). "The Transmission of Abū Dāwūd's 'Sunan' " . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies . 14 (3): 579–588.
- Robson, J. (1960). "Abū Dāʾūd al-Sid̲j̲istānī" . In Gibb, H. A. R. ; Kramers, J. H. ; Lévi-Provençal, E. ; Schacht, J. ; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam . Volume I: A–B (2nd ed.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. OCLC 495469456 .
- Thomas, David (24 March 2010). "Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath al-Sijistānī" . In Thomas, David (ed.). Christian-Muslim Relations 600 – 1500 . Brill Online.
External links
- Biodata at MuslimScholars.info * Biography at Sunnah.com
- Letter from Imam Abu Dawud to the people of Makkah explaining his book, terms he uses, and his methodology.
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