Publisher’s Foreword

Dedication

Dr. Taha Husayn's Foreword

The Author’s Response

Definition of the Book

Narrating Hadith Through Denotation:

A General Word:

Introduction of the Second Edition 13

For Truth and History

Introduction To the Third Edition

Al-sunnah

Position of Sunnah in Religion:

Companions and Hadith Relating:

To Lie Against Messenger of Allah:

Fabricating Lies Against the Prophet After His Death:

The Companions Criticizing Each Other:

Narrating Hadith By Meaning and Disagreement Among Scholars:

Forms of Tashahhud:

Word of Monotheism:

Examples On Narrating Hadith By Meaning Hadith of Islam and Faith:

Hadith of Ali’s Sahifah:

Disadvantage of Narrating Hadith Through Meaning

Detriment of Narration Through Meaning Linguistically and Rhetorically

Narration in Islam

Composition of Hadith and Its Causes

Detriment of Tales and Talebearer:

The Abbasid State:

The Righteous Fabricators

Ka’b Al-ahbar: 245

Wahb Ibn Munabbih:

Abd Allah Ibn Sallam:

Ka’b and Umar:

Ka’b’s Cunning and Stratagem:

Some Companions Relating From Jewish Rabbis:

Political Stratagem

Ka'b and Mu'awiyah:

Masihiyyat in Hadith

Abu Hurayrah

Shaykh Al-mudirah:

His Imposture (tadlis)

First Narrator Accused in Islam:

His Reporting From Ka'b Al-ahbar:

Abu Hurayrah Follows the Umayyads:

Fabrication of Traditions Against Ali

Narrations of Great Companions

Ambiguous Traditions

The Twelve Caliphs:

Al-dajjal (impostor) 447

Tadwin Al-qur'an:

Revelation Scribes:

A Meditative Pause:

Tadwin Al-hadith: 468

Writing of Hadith Was Forcibly Done:

Stages of Changeability of Tadwin:

Effect of Delay in Tadwin:

The Shiah and Writing of Hadith

Parts of Khabar:

Best Care Was Given To Sanad:

Famous Hadith Books

Malik and His Muwatta’:

Al-bukhari and His Book

Muslim and His Book

Are Sahihayn Containing Most Correct Traditions?

Abu Dawud

Al-tirmidhi

Al-nasa’i

Musnad Ahmad

Ahmad Reporting From an Apostate Companion:

Jarh and Ta’dil

Reliability of the Companions

Adopting Reliability of All the Sahabah

Hypocrites Among Sahabah and Surat Al-tawbah:

Sorcery Hadith Is of Ahad:

Asking For Hadith Without Fiqh (and What the Traditionists Nicknamed With)

Conclusion

The Greatest Calamity Inflicted Islam:

Aspects of Preponderance Contain Contradiction:

Rules and Principles

Original Rules of Rituals and Transactions:

Bibliography

Light On the Muhammadan Sunnah Or Defence of the Hadith

Abu Dawud
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He is al-Imam al-Faqih Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn al-Ash’ath al-Azdi
al-Sijistani. He was born in 202H. He has visited Baghdad several times,
and was dead in Basrah in 275 H. Al-Khitabi is reported to have said: No
book was compiled on ilm al-hadith to the level of Sunan Abi Dawud,
which was of better position and more doctrinal than the two Sahihs.
From him al-

Tirmidhi and al-Nasa’i reported a number of traditions. Ibn Kathir, in
Mukhtasar ’ulum al-hadith, said: The narrations for Sunan Abi Dawud are
so many, in some of which things are there that can’t be seen in the
others. The most notable among narrators of the Sunan, being Abu Sa’id
ibn al-A’rabi, Abu Ali al-Lu’lu’i and Abu Bakr ibn Dasah.

All the resolution of Abu Dawud focussed on collecting the traditions
that were inferred by fuqaha’ of all towns and upon which they based
their judgements. So he sorted out his Sunan, including in it the sahih,
hasan (good), layyin (flexible) and that which is fit to adopt in
practice. Among the words uttered by him: I have never stated in my book
a hadith upon the abandonment of which people unanimously agreed, and if
there found any hadith of very feeble nature in it, I have indicated it
clearly.

Abu Bakr ibn Dasah says: I heard Abu Dawud saying: I have written down
from the Messenger of Allah 500 thousand traditions, some of which I
have selected and implied in this book, in which I brought together four
thousand and eight hundred traditions, including the sahih and similar
and near ones.

It is said: Sunan Abi Dawud is sufficient for every mujtahid, and for
his religion he can be sufficed with only four traditions: (1) The acts
are verily (accepted) with only four traditions. (2) That which
indicating betterment of one’s Islam being forsaking what is not of his
concern. (3) Any believer can never be (true) believer (mu’min) till he
wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. (4) The halal
(lawful) is manifest and haram (unlawful) is manifest, and between the
two some dubious (mushtabah) things. Some of the traditionists have
preferred it (Sunan) to Sahih al-Bukhari.

Abu Dawud and al-Bukhari have both learnt fiqh under fuqaha’ of Iraq.

  
  
  

