{ "source": "ParallelQuran.com", "exported_at": "2026-08-23T00:01:34Z", "count": 28, "hadith": [ { "number": 3641, "global_number": "24146", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abu al-Darda", "al-Walid bin Muslim al-Quraishi الوليد بن مسلم القرشي", "Uthman bin Abi Swd'h عثمان بن أبي سودة المقدسي" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "Kathir ibn Qays said: I was sitting with AbudDarda’ in the mosque of Damascus.\nA man came to him and said: AbudDarda, I have come to you from the town of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for a tradition that I have heard you relate from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). I have come for no other purpose.\nHe said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise. The angels will lower their wings in their great pleasure with one who seeks knowledge, the inhabitants of the heavens and the Earth and the fish in the deep waters will ask forgiveness for the learned man. The superiority of the learned man over the devout is like that of the moon, on the night when it is full, over the rest of the stars. The learned are the heirs of the Prophets, and the Prophets leave neither dinar nor dirham, leaving only knowledge, and he who takes it takes an abundant portion.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3641/" }, { "number": 3642, "global_number": "24147", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abu Hurairah", "Dhakwan Abu Salah al-Saman al-Ziyat ذكوان أبو صالح السمان الزيات", "Sulaiman al-A'mash الأعمش / سليمان بن مهران", "Za'ida bin Qadama al-Thaqifi زائدة بن قدامة الثقفي" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu al-Darda through a different chain of narrators to the same effect from the Holy Prophet (ﷺ)", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3642/" }, { "number": 3643, "global_number": "24148", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abdur-Razzaq عبد الرزاق بن همام", "Ahmed bin Muhammad bin Musa al-Samsar أحمد بن محمد بن موسى السمسار", "al-Zuhri ابن شهاب الزهري‎, محمد بن مسلم", "Ma'mar bin Rashid معمر بن راشد" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge, Allah will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise; and he who is made slow by his actions will not be speeded by his genealogy.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3643/" }, { "number": 3644, "global_number": "24149", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abdur Rahman bin Abi al-Zanad عبد الرحمن بن أبي الزناد", "Abu al-Zanad أبو الزناد", "Kharija ibn Zayd ibn Thabit خارجة بن زيد بن ثابت الأنصاري" ], "grade": "Da'if", "text": "When he was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and a Jew was also with him, a funeral passed by him. He (the Jew) asked (Him): Muhammad, does this funeral speak? The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah has more knowledge. The Jew said: It speaks.\nThe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Whatever the people of the Book tell you, do not verify them, nor falsify them, but say: We believe in Allah and His Apostle. If it is false, do not confirm it, and if it is right, do not falsify it.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3644/" }, { "number": 3645, "global_number": "24150", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abdullah bin 'Amr bin al-'Aas", "Abu Bakr bin Abi Shayba أبو بكر بن أبي شيبة", "al-Walid bin 'Abdullah الوليد بن عبد الله بن أبي مغيث", "Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل", "Ubaidullah bin al-Akhns عبيد الله بن الأخنس النخعي أبو مالك", "Yahya bin Sa'id bin Farroukh al-Qatan يحيى بن سعيد بن فروخ القطان", "Yusuf bin Mahk يوسف بن ماهك الفارسي" ], "grade": "Hasan Sahih", "text": "The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered me (to learn the writing of the Jews), so I learnt for him the writing of the Jews. He said: I swear by Allah, I do not trust Jews in respect of writing for me. So I learnt it, and only a fortnight passed before I mastered it. I would write for him when he wrote (to them), and read to him when something was written to him.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3645/" }, { "number": 3646, "global_number": "24151", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "al-Muttalib bin 'Abdullah bin Hantab المطلب بن عبد الله بن حنطب", "Kathir bin Zayd al-'Aslmy كثير بن زيد الأسلمي", "Muhammad bin 'Abdullah bin al-Zubair محمد بن عبد الله أبو أحمد الزبيري", "Nasr bin 'Ali bin Nasr bin 'Ali" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "I used to write everything which I heard from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). I intended (by it) to memorise it. The Quraysh prohibited me saying: Do you write everything that you hear from him while the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) is a human being: he speaks in anger and pleasure? So I stopped writing, and mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He signalled with his finger to him mouth and said: Write, by Him in Whose hand my soul lies, only right comes out from it.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3646/" }, { "number": 3647, "global_number": "24152", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abu Sa'id al-Khudri", "Ali bin Da'ud,Abu al-Mutawakkal al-Naji علي بن داود أبو المتوكل الناجي", "Musa bin Nafi', Abu Shahab al-Hanat موسى بن نافع الأسدي أبو شهاب الحناط" ], "grade": "Da'if", "text": "Al-Muttalib ibn Abdullah ibn Hantab said: Zayd ibn Thabit entered upon Mu’awiyah and asked him about a tradition. He ordered a man to write it. Zayd said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered us not to write any of his traditions. So he erased it.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3647/" }, { "number": 3648, "global_number": "24153", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abdur Rahman bin 'Amr al-Awza'i عبد الرحمن بن عمرو أبو عمرو الأوزاعي", "Abu Hurairah", "Abu Salama bin 'Abdur Rahman أبو سلمة بن عبد الرحمن بن عوف", "al-Walid bin Muslim al-Quraishi الوليد بن مسلم القرشي", "Yahya bin Abi Kathir يحيى بن أبي كثير الطائي" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "When Mecca was conquered, the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) stood up. He (Abu Hurairah) then mentioned the sermon of the Holy Prophet (ﷺ). He said: A man of the Yemen, who was called Abu Shah, got up and said: Messenger of Allah! Write it for me. He said: Write it for Abu Shah.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3648/" }, { "number": 3649, "global_number": "24154", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "al-Walid bin Muslim al-Quraishi الوليد بن مسلم القرشي", "Ali bin Sahl bin Qadim علي بن سهل بن قادم" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "“We used not to write anything but the Tasha-hud and the Qur’an.”", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3649/" }, { "number": 3650, "global_number": "24155", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr", "Amir bin 'Abdullah عامر بن عبد الله بن الزبير بن العوام", "Amr bin 'Awn/'Auf bin Aws", "Byan bin Bashr al-Ahmsi بيان بن بشر الأحمسي", "Khalid bin 'Abdullah al-Tahan خالد بن عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن الطحان", "Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "I asked Abu `Amr: What are they writing? He said: The sermon which he heard that day.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3650/" }, { "number": 3651, "global_number": "24156", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abu 'Imran al-Jauni عبد الملك بن حبيب أبو عمران الجوني", "Jundab bin 'Abdullah al-Bajli", "Y'aqub bin Ishaq bin Zayd يعقوب بن إسحاق بن زيد" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "I asked al-Zubair : What prevents you from narrating traditions from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as his Companions narrate from him? He said: By Allah I was very close to him. But I heard him (ﷺ) say: He who lies about me deliberately will certainly come to his abode in Hell.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3651/" }, { "number": 3652, "global_number": "24157", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Amr bin Marzuq al-Bahli عمرو بن مرزوق الباهلي", "Shu'bah bin al-Hajjaj شعبة بن الحجاج" ], "grade": "Da'if", "text": "The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone interprets the Book of Allah in the light of his opinion even if he is right, he has erred.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3652/" }, { "number": 3653, "global_number": "24158", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "al-Zuhri ابن شهاب الزهري‎, محمد بن مسلم", "Muhammad bin Mansur bin Da'ud محمد بن منصور بن داود الطوسي", "Sufyan bin 'Uyaynah سفيان بن عيينة", "Urwa ibn al-Zubayr عروة بن الزبير" ], "grade": "Hasan", "text": "AbuSallam said on the authority of a man who served the Holy Prophet (ﷺ) that whenever he talked, he repeated it three times.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3653/" }, { "number": 3654, "global_number": "24159", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abdullah bin Wahb عبد الله بن وهب بن مسلم القرشي", "al-Zuhri ابن شهاب الزهري‎, محمد بن مسلم", "Sulaiman bin Da'ud bin Da'ud سليمان بن داود بن داود بن علي", "Urwa ibn al-Zubayr عروة بن الزبير", "Yonus bin Yazid bin Abi al-Nijad يونس بن يزيد بن أبي النجاد" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "Abu Hurairah sat beside the apartment of `A’ishah while she was praying. He then began to say: Listen, O lady of the apartment, saying it twice (in quick succession). When she finished her prayer, she said: Are you not surprised at him and the way he narrates traditions from the Apostle of the Allah (ﷺ). When the Apostle of the Allah (ﷺ) gave a talk, a man could count his words if he wished to count.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3654/" }, { "number": 3655, "global_number": "24160", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abdullah al-Snabhy Mkhtlf", "Abdullah bin Sa'd", "Abdur Rahman bin 'Amr al-Awza'i عبد الرحمن بن عمرو أبو عمرو الأوزاعي", "Ibrahim bin Musa al-Razi al-Fara' إبراهيم بن موسى الرازي الفراء", "Isa bin Yonus bin Abi Ishaq عيسى بن يونس بن أبي إسحاق", "Mu'awiya ibn Abu Sufyan" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "Are you not surprised at AbuHurayrah? He came and sat beside my apartment, and began to narrate traditions from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) making me hear them. I was saying supererogatory prayer. He got up (and went away) before I finished my prayer. Had I found him, I would have replied to him. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not narrate traditions quickly one after another as you narrate quickly.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3655/" }, { "number": 3656, "global_number": "24161", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abu Hurairah", "al-Hasan bin 'Ali al-Halwani الحسن بن علي الخلال الحلواني", "Bakr bin 'Amr al-Ma'fari بكر بن عمرو المعافري", "Muslim bin Yasar al-'Abbassri مسلم بن يسار البصري - مسلم سكرة المصبح", "Sa'id bin Abi Ayoub سعيد بن أبي أيوب الخزاعي" ], "grade": "Da'if", "text": "The Holy Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the discussion of thorny questions.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3656/" }, { "number": 3657, "global_number": "24162", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abu Hurairah", "Ata' bin Abi Rabah عطاء بن أبي رباح", "Hammad bin Zayd حماد بن زيد بن درهم الأزدي الأزرق", "Musa bin Isma'il al-Munqari al-Tabudhaki موسى بن إسماعيل المنقري - لتبوذكي" ], "grade": "Hasan", "text": "The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone is given a legal decision ignorantly, the sin rests on the one who gave it. Sulayman al-Mahri added in his version: If anyone advises his brother, knowing that guidance lies in another direction, he has deceived him. These are the wordings of Sulayman.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3657/" }, { "number": 3658, "global_number": "24163", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "ibn Abbas", "Jarir bin 'Abdul Hameed al-Razi جرير بن عبد الحميد أبو عبد الله الضبي", "Sa'id bin Jubayr سعيد بن جبير الأسدي", "Sulaiman al-A'mash الأعمش / سليمان بن مهران", "Uthman bin Muhammad", "Zuhayr bin Harb زهير بن حرب بن شداد أبو خثيمة" ], "grade": "Hasan Sahih", "text": "The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who is asked something he knows and conceals it will have a bridle of fire put on him on the Day of Resurrection.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3658/" }, { "number": 3659, "global_number": "24164", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Aban bin 'Uthman أبان بن عثمان بن عفان", "Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل", "Shu'bah bin al-Hajjaj شعبة بن الحجاج", "Yahya bin Sa'id bin Farroukh al-Qatan يحيى بن سعيد بن فروخ القطان", "Zayd ibn Thabit" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "The Prophet (ﷺ) said: You hear (from me), and others will hear from you; and people will hear from them who heard from you.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3659/" }, { "number": 3660, "global_number": "24165", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abdul 'Aziz bin Abi Hazim عبد العزيز بن أبي حازم", "Abu Hazim, Salma bin Dinar سلمة بن دينار أبو حازم الأعرج", "Sa'id bin Mnswr bin Sh'bh سعيد بن منصور بن شعبة", "Sahl bin Sa'd bin Malik" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: May Allah brighten a man who hears a tradition from us, gets it by heart and passes it on to others. Many a bearer of knowledge conveys it to one who is more versed than he is; and many a bearer of knowledge is not versed in it.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3660/" }, { "number": 3661, "global_number": "24166", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abu Bakr bin Abi Shayba أبو بكر بن أبي شيبة", "Abu Hurairah", "Abu Salama bin 'Abdur Rahman أبو سلمة بن عبد الرحمن بن عوف", "Ali bin Ms'hr علي بن مسهر", "Muhammad bin 'Amr bin 'Alqama محمد بن عمرو بن علقمة" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "I swear on Allah, it will be better for you that Allah should give guidance to one man through your agency than that you should acquire the red ones among the camels.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3661/" }, { "number": 3662, "global_number": "24167", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abdullah bin 'Amr bin al-'Aas", "Mu'adh ibn Jabal", "Muhammad bin al-Muthna - al-Zaman محمد بن المثنى أبو موسى - الزمن", "Qatada قتادة" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "The Prophet (ﷺ) said: relate traditions from the children of Isra’il; there is no harm.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3662/" }, { "number": 3663, "global_number": "24168", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abu Bakr bin Abi Shayba أبو بكر بن أبي شيبة", "Abu Hurairah", "Falayh bin Suliaman فليح بن سليمان", "Sa'id bin Yasar, Abu al-Hubab سعيد بن يسار أبو الحباب", "Surayj bin al-Nu'man al-Juhari سريج بن النعمان الجوهري اللؤلؤي" ], "grade": "Da'if", "text": "The Prophet (ﷺ) used to relate to us traditions from the children of Isra’il till morning came; he would not get up except for obligatory prayer.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3663/" }, { "number": 3664, "global_number": "24169", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Aabad bin 'Aabad bin Habib عباد بن عباد بن حبيب بن المهلب", "Abdul A'ala bin Mushir al-Ghasani عبد الأعلى بن مسهر أبو مسهر الغساني", "Auf bin Malik al-Ashja'i", "Mhmwd bin Khalid محمود بن خالد", "Yahya bin Abi 'Amr يحيى بن أبي عمرو السيباني" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone acquires knowledge that should be sought seeking the Face of Allah, but he acquires it only to get some worldly advantage, he will not experience the arf, i.e. the fragrance, of Paradise.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3664/" }, { "number": 3665, "global_number": "24170", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Abu Sa'id al-Khudri", "al-'Ala' bin Bashyr al-Mzny العلاء بن بشير المزني", "Bakr bin 'Amr Abu al-Siddique al-Naji بكر بن عمرو/ قيس", "Ja'far bin Sulaiman al-Daba'i جعفر بن سليمان الضبعي", "Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل" ], "grade": "Hasan Sahih", "text": "I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Only a ruler, or one put in charge, or one who is presumptuous, gives instructions.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3665/" }, { "number": 3666, "global_number": "24171", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Anas ibn Malik", "Muhammad bin al-Muthna - al-Zaman محمد بن المثنى أبو موسى - الزمن", "Musa bin Khlf al-My موسى بن خلف العمي", "Qatada قتادة" ], "grade": "Da'if", "text": "I was sitting in the company of the poor members of the emigrants. Some of them were sitting together because of lack of clothing while a reader was reciting to us. All of a sudden the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came along and stood beside us. When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood, the reader stopped and greeted him.\nHe asked: What were you doing? We said: Messenger of Allah! We had a reader who was reciting to us and we were listening to the Book of Allah, the Exalted.\nThe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then said: Praise be to Allah Who has put among my people those with whom I have been ordered to stay. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then sat among us so as to be like one of us, and when he had made a sign with his hand they sat in a circle with their faces turned towards him.\nThe narrator said: I think that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not recognize any of them except me.\nThe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then said: Rejoice, you group of poor emigrants, in the announcement that you will have perfect light on the Day of Resurrection. You will enter Paradise half a day before the rich, and that is five hundred years.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3666/" }, { "number": 3667, "global_number": "24172", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Hafs bin Ghyath حفص بن غياث", "ibn Mas'ud", "Ibrahim al-Nakha'i إبراهيم النخعي", "Sulaiman al-A'mash الأعمش / سليمان بن مهران", "Ubaida bin 'Amr al-Salamani عبيدة بن عمرو", "Uthman bin Muhammad" ], "grade": "Hasan", "text": "The Prophet (ﷺ) said: That I sit in the company of the people who remember Allah the Exalted from morning prayer till the sun rises is dearer to me than that I emancipate four slaves from the children of Isma`il, and that I sit with the people who remember Allah from afternoon prayer till the sun sets is dearer to me than that I emancipate four slaves.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3667/" }, { "number": 3668, "global_number": "24173", "collection": "Sunan Abi Dawud", "book": "Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)", "narrators": [ "Ahmad bin Hanbal أحمد بن حنبل", "Amir al-Sha'bi عامر الشعبي", "ibn Umar", "Umar ibn al-Khattab", "Yahya bin Sa'id bin Hiyan يحيى بن سعيد بن حيان" ], "grade": "Sahih", "text": "The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: recite Surat al-Nisa’. I asked: Shall I recite to you what was sent down to you? He replied: I like to here it from someone else. So I recited (it) until I reached this verse “How then shall it be when We bring from every people a witness?”. Then I raised my head and saw tears falling from his eyes.", "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3668/" } ] }