# Sunan Abi Dawud - Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam) *Exported from [ParallelQuran.com](https://parallelquran.com) on August 23, 2026* **22 hadith** --- ## Hadith #2375 **Book:** Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam) | **Narrator(s):** Muhammad bin Kathir bin Abi 'Ata' محمد بن كثير بن أبي عطاء الثقفي, Sufyan bin Sa‘id Ath-Thawri سفيان الثوري, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih We would not allow a man who was fasting to get himself cupped due to abomination of hardship. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-2375/)* --- ## Hadith #2491 **Book:** Jihad (Kitab Al-Jihad) | **Narrator(s):** Ata ibn Yasar عطاء بن يسار أبو محمد مولى ميمونة, Hisham bin Yusuf al-Sana'i هشام بن يوسف الصنعاني أبو عبد الرحمن, Ma'mar bin Rashid معمر بن راشد, Yahya bin Ma'in يحيى بن معين, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih Anas bin Malik said “Whenever the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) went to Quba, he used to visit Umm Haram daughter of Milhan who was married to ‘Ubadah bin Al Samit. One day when he visited her she gave him food an sat clearing his head of lice. The narrator narrated the rest of the tradition. Abu Dawud said “Daughter of Milhan died in Cyprus”. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-2491/)* --- ## Hadith #2822 **Book:** Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya) | **Narrator(s):** Ata ibn Yasar عطاء بن يسار أبو محمد مولى ميمونة, Qutayba bin Sa'id bin Jamil قتيبة بن سعيد بن جميل, Ya'qub bin Ibrahim bin Sa'd يعقوب بن إبراهيم بن سعد بن إبراهيم, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih I hunted two hares and slaughtered them with a flint. I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about them. He permitted me to eat them. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-2822/)* --- ## Hadith #2857 **Book:** Game (Kitab Al-Said) | **Narrator(s):** Abdur Rahman bin 'Abdullah bin Dinar عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن دينار, Ata ibn Yasar عطاء بن يسار أبو محمد مولى ميمونة, Hashim bin al-Qasim bin Muslim هاشم بن القاسم أبو النضر - قيصر, Uthman bin Muhammad, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Hasan There was a bedouin called AbuTha’labah. He said: Messenger of Allah, I have trained dogs, so tell me your opinion about (eating) the animal they hunt. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If you have trained dogs, then eat what they catch for you. He asked: Whether it is slaughtered or not? He replied: Yes. He asked: Does it apply even if it eats any of it? He replied: Even if it eats any of it. He again asked: Messenger of Allah, tell me your opinion about my bow (i.e. the game hunted by arrow). He said: Eat what your bow returns to you, whether it is slaughtered or not. He asked: If it goes out of my sight? He replied: Even if it goes out of your sight, provided it has no stench, or you find a mark on it other than the mark of your arrow. He asked: Tell me about the use of the vessels of the Magians when we are forced to use them. He replied: Wash them and eat in them. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-2857/)* --- ## Hadith #2950 **Book:** Tribute, Spoils, and Rulership (Kitab Al-Kharaj, Wal-Fai' Wal-Imarah) | **Narrator(s):** Harun bin Zayd bin Abi al-Zarqa' هارون بن زيد بن أبي الزرقاء التغلبي, Hisham bin Sa'd al-Madni هشام بن سعد المدني أبو عباد, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Hasan Malik ibn Aws ibn al-Hadthan said: One day Umar ibn al-Khattab mentioned the spoils of war and said: I am not more entitled to this spoil of war than you; and none of us is more entitled to it than another, except that we occupy our positions fixed by the Book of Allah, Who is Great and Glorious, and the division made by the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), people being arranged according to their precedence in accepting Islam, the hardship they have endured their having children and their need. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-2950/)* --- ## Hadith #3019 **Book:** Tribute, Spoils, and Rulership (Kitab Al-Kharaj, Wal-Fai' Wal-Imarah) | **Narrator(s):** Abdur Rahman bin Mahdi عبد الرحمن بن مهدي, Ahmad bin Hanbal أحمد بن حنبل, Aslam Client Of 'Umar أسلم مولى عمر, Imam Maalik مالك بن أنس بن مالك بن أبي عامر, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Hasan The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) took out his fifth from the booty of Khaybar, and divided the rest of it among those who attended the battle and among those who were away from it but attend the expedition of al-Hudaybiyyah. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3019/)* --- ## Hadith #3345 **Book:** Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu) | **Narrator(s):** Abdullah bin Muslima al-Qa'nabi عبد الله بن مسلمة بن قعنب القعنبي, Abu Rafi', Ata ibn Yasar عطاء بن يسار أبو محمد مولى ميمونة, Imam Maalik مالك بن أنس بن مالك بن أبي عامر, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Delay in payment (of debt) by a rich man is injunctive, but when one of you is referred to a wealthy man, he should accept the reference. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3345/)* --- ## Hadith #3912 **Book:** Divination and Omens (Kitab Al-Kahanah Wa Al-Tatayyur) | **Narrator(s):** Abu Hurairah, al-Q'qa' bin Hkym al-Knany القعقاع بن حكيم الكناني المدني, Dhakwan Abu Salah al-Saman al-Ziyat ذكوان أبو صالح السمان الزيات, Muhammad bin 'Abdul Rahim bin Abi Zuhayr محمد بن عبد الرحيم بن أبي زهير البزاز, Muhammad bin Ajlan al-Madni محمد بن عجلان المدني, Sa'id bin Abi Maryam سعيد بن أبي مريم, Ubaidullah bin Mqsm عبيد الله بن مقسم, Yahya bin Ayoub al-Ghafiqi يحيى بن أيوب الغافقي, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: There is no infection, no hamah, no other promising rain, and no serpent in a hungry belly. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3912/)* --- ## Hadith #4005 **Book:** Dialects and Readings of the Qur'an (Kitab Al-Huruf Wa Al-Qira'at) | **Narrator(s):** Abdullah bin Wahb عبد الله بن وهب بن مسلم القرشي, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, Ahmed bin Salah al-Masri أحمد بن صالح المصري, Ata ibn Yasar عطاء بن يسار أبو محمد مولى ميمونة, Hisham bin Sa'd al-Madni هشام بن سعد المدني أبو عباد, Sulaiman bin Da'ud bin Da'ud سليمان بن داود بن داود بن علي, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih ‘Abd Allah (b. Mas’ud) was told that the people had read this verse: “She said: Now come, thou” (hita laka). He said: I read it as I have been taught ; it is dearer to me. It goes “wa qalat haita laka” (She said: Now come thou). *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4005/)* --- ## Hadith #4017 **Book:** Hot Baths (Kitab Al-Hammam) | **Narrator(s):** Abdur Rahman bin Abi Sa'id al-Khudri عبد الرحمن بن أبي سعيد, Abdur Rahman bin Ibrahim عبد الرحمن بن إبراهيم - دحيم, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, al-Dahhak bin 'Uthman bin 'Abdullah الضحاك بن عثمان بن عبد الله بن خالد, Muhammad bin Abi Fadayk محمد بن إسماعيل بن مسلم بن أبي فديك, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Hasan I said: Messenger of Allah, from whom should we conceal our private parts and to whom can we show? He replied: conceal your private parts except from your wife and from whom your right hands possess (slave-girls). I then asked: Messenger of Allah, (what should we do), if the people are assembled together? He replied: If it is within your power that no one looks at it, then no one should look at it. I then asked: Messenger of Allah if one of us is alone, (what should he do)? He replied: Allah is more entitled than people that bashfulness should be shown to him. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4017/)* --- ## Hadith #4063 **Book:** Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas) | **Narrator(s):** Abdul 'Aziz bin Muhammad al-Daruradi عبد العزيز بن محمد الدراوردي, Abdullah bin Muslima al-Qa'nabi عبد الله بن مسلمة بن قعنب القعنبي, ibn Umar, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) wearing a poor garment and he said (to me): Have you any property? He replied: Yes. He asked: What kind is it? He said: Allah has given me camels. Sheep, horses and slaves. He then said: When Allah gives you property, let the mark of Allah’s favour and honour to you be seen. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4063/)* --- ## Hadith #4122 **Book:** Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas) | **Narrator(s):** ibn Abbas, Muhammad bin Kathir bin Abi 'Ata' محمد بن كثير بن أبي عطاء الثقفي, Sufyan bin Sa‘id Ath-Thawri سفيان الثوري, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Da'if Al-Zuhri used to deny tanning and say: Some good can be got out of it in any condition Abu Dawud said: Al-Auza’i, Yunus and ‘Uqail did not mention tanning. al-Zubaidi, Sa’id b. ‘Abd al-Aziz and Hafs b. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz mentioned tanning. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4122/)* --- ## Hadith #4375 **Book:** Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud) | **Narrator(s):** Aslam Client Of 'Umar أسلم مولى عمر, Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل, Sufyan bin Sa‘id Ath-Thawri سفيان الثوري, Yahya bin Sa'id bin Farroukh al-Qatan يحيى بن سعيد بن فروخ القطان, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) Said: Forgive the people of good qualities their slips, but not faults to which prescribed penalties apply. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4375/)* --- ## Hadith #4447 **Book:** Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud) | **Narrator(s):** Abdullah bin Wahb عبد الله بن وهب بن مسلم القرشي, Ahmed bin Sa'id bin Sakhar أحمد بن سعيد بن صخر, Hisham bin Sa'd al-Madni هشام بن سعد المدني أبو عباد, ibn Umar, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih The people passed by the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) with a jew whose face blackened with charcoal and he was being taken around. He adjured them by Allah and asked: What is the prescribed punishment for a fornicator in your Divine book? He (the narrator) said: They referred him to a man of them. The Prophet (ﷺ) adjured him and asked: What is the punishment for a fornication in your Divine Book? He replied: Stoning. But fornication spread among our people of rank, so we disliked that a person of rank should be left alone and the punishment be inflicted on one who is lower in rank than him. So we suspended it for us. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then commanded regarding him and he was stoned to death. He then said: O Allah! I am the first to give life to a command of Thy Book which they had killed. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4447/)* --- ## Hadith #4700 **Book:** Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah) | **Narrator(s):** Abdullah bin Wahb عبد الله بن وهب بن مسلم القرشي, Ahmed bin Salah al-Masri أحمد بن صالح المصري, Aslam Client Of 'Umar أسلم مولى عمر, Hisham bin Sa'd al-Madni هشام بن سعد المدني أبو عباد, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih Son! You will not get the taste of the reality of faith until you know that what has come to you could not miss you, and that what has missed you could not come to you. I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: The first thing Allah created was the pen. He said to it: Write. It asked: What should I write, my Lord? He said: Write what was decreed about everything till the Last Hour comes. Son! I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say : He who dies on something other than this does not belong to me. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4700/)* --- ## Hadith #4813 **Book:** General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab) | **Narrator(s):** Abdul 'Aziz bin Muhammad al-Daruradi عبد العزيز بن محمد الدراوردي, Abdullah bin Muslima al-Qa'nabi عبد الله بن مسلمة بن قعنب القعنبي, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, Ata ibn Yasar عطاء بن يسار أبو محمد مولى ميمونة, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Hasan The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If someone is given something, he should give a return for it provided he can afford; if he cannot afford, he should praise him. He who praises him for it, thanks him, and he who conceals it is ungrateful to him. Abu Dawud said: It has been transmitted by Yahya b. Ayyub, from `Umarah b. Ghaziyyah, from Sharahbil on the authority of Jabir. Abu Dawud said: In the chain of this tradition `Umarah b. Ghaziyyah said: A man from my tribe said. The man referred by him is Sharahbil. It is likely that they disliked him and, therefore, they did not name him. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4813/)* --- ## Hadith #4880 **Book:** General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab) | **Narrator(s):** Abu Hurairah, Asbat bin Muhammad أسباط بن محمد, Dhakwan Abu Salah al-Saman al-Ziyat ذكوان أبو صالح السمان الزيات, Hisham bin Sa'd al-Madni هشام بن سعد المدني أبو عباد, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Hasan Sahih The Prophet (ﷺ) said: O community of people, who believed by their tongue, and belief did not enter their hearts, do not back-bite Muslims, and do not search for their faults, for if anyone searches for their faults, Allah will search for his fault, and if Allah searches for the fault of anyone, He disgraces him in his house. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4880/)* --- ## Hadith #4905 **Book:** General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab) | **Narrator(s):** Abu Hazim, Salma bin Dinar سلمة بن دينار أبو حازم الأعرج, Harun bin Zayd bin Abi al-Zarqa' هارون بن زيد بن أبي الزرقاء التغلبي, Hisham bin Sa'd al-Madni هشام بن سعد المدني أبو عباد, Umm al-Darda'a أم الدرداء, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Hasan when a man cures anything, the curse goes up to heaven and the gates of heaven are locked against it. Then it comes down to the earth and its gates are locked against it. Then it goes right and left, and if it finds no place of entrance it returns to the thing which was cursed, and if it finds no place of entrance it returns to the thing which was cursed, and if it deserves what was said (it enters it), otherwise it returns to the one who uttered it. Abu Dawud said : Marwan b. Muhammad said: He is Rabah b. al-Walid who heard from him (nimran). He (Marwan b. Muhammad) said: Yahya b. Hussain was confused in it. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4905/)* --- ## Hadith #4961 **Book:** General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab) | **Narrator(s):** Aslam Client Of 'Umar أسلم مولى عمر, Harun bin Zayd bin Abi al-Zarqa' هارون بن زيد بن أبي الزرقاء التغلبي, Hisham bin Sa'd al-Madni هشام بن سعد المدني أبو عباد, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih The vilest names in Allah’s sight on the Day of resurrection will be that of a man called Malik al-Amlak. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been transmitted by Shu’aib b. Abi Hamzah from Abi al-Zinad through different chain of narrators. This version has the words “akhna’ ismin” (most obscene name) instead of “akhna ismin” (the vilest name). *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4961/)* --- ## Hadith #4985 **Book:** General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab) | **Narrator(s):** Aisha bint Abi Bakr, Harun bin Zayd bin Abi al-Zarqa' هارون بن زيد بن أبي الزرقاء التغلبي, Hisham bin Sa'd al-Madni هشام بن سعد المدني أبو عباد, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih Salim ibn AbulJa’dah said: A man said: (Mis’ar said: I think he was from the tribe of Khuza’ah): would that I had prayed, and got comfort. The people objected to him for it. Thereupon he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: O Bilal, call iqamah for prayer: give us comfort by it. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4985/)* --- ## Hadith #5005 **Book:** General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab) | **Narrator(s):** Abdullah bin Muslima al-Qa'nabi عبد الله بن مسلمة بن قعنب القعنبي, ibn Umar, Imam Maalik مالك بن أنس بن مالك بن أبي عامر, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Allah , the Exalted, hates the eloquent one among men who moves his tongue round (among his teeth), as cattle do. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-5005/)* --- ## Hadith #5243 **Book:** General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab) | **Narrator(s):** Abu Hurairah, al-Laith bin Sa'd الليث بن سعد, Dhakwan Abu Salah al-Saman al-Ziyat ذكوان أبو صالح السمان الزيات, Isa bin Hammad bin Muslim, Zaghba عيسى بن حماد بن مسلم أبو موسى زغبة, Muhammad bin Ajlan al-Madni محمد بن عجلان المدني, Zayd bin Aslam زيد بن أسلم | **Grade:** Sahih The Prophet (ﷺ) said: In the morning alms are due from every bone in man’s fingers and toes. Salutation to everyone he meets is alms; enjoining good is alms; forbidding what is disreputable is alms; removing what is harmful from the road is alms; having sexual intercourse with his wife is alms. The people asked: He fulfils his desire, Messenger of Allah; is it alms? He replied: Tell me if he fulfilled his desire where he had no right, would he commit a sin ? He then said: Two rak’ahs which one prays in the forenoon serve instead of all that. Abu Dawud said: Hammad did not mention enjoining good and forbidding what is disreputable. *Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-5243/)* ---