Collection: Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 24519

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat with us and my thigh was uncovered. He said: Do you not know that thigh is a private part ?

Sunan Abi Dawud 24520

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not uncover you thigh, and do not look at the thigh of the living and the dead. Abu Dawud said: This tradition disagrees with the generally reported traditions (nakarah).

Sunan Abi Dawud 24517

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw a man washing in a public place without a lower garment. So he mounted the pulpit, praised and extolled Allah and said: Allah is characterised by modesty and concealment. So when any of you washes, he should conceal himself.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24512

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Hisham b. Sa’d with a different chain of narrators in a similar way.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24513

The revelation came down to Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he recited to is: “A surah which We have sent down and which We have ordained (faradnaha)” Abu Dawud said: The letter ra (r) is the word faradnaha has short vowel a (with out doubling of consonant r), and then he reached the verses after […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 24514

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade to enter the hot baths. He then permitted men to enter them in lower garments.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24515

AbulMalih said: Some women of Syria came to Aisha. She asked them: From whom are you? They replied: From the people of Syria. She said: Perhaps you belong to the place where women enter hot baths (for washing ). The said: Yes. She said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If a woman […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 24516

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: After some time the lands of the non-Arabs will be conquered for you, and there you will find houses called hammamat (hot baths). so men should not enter them (to wash) except in lower garments, and forbid the women to enter them except a sick or one who is in a […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 24508

The Prophet (ﷺ) came to them in the swelling place of immigrants and a man asked him: Which is the greatest verse of the Qur’an ? The Prophet (ﷺ) replied: Allah, there is no god but He – the Living, the Self-Subsisting Eternal. No slumber can seize Him nor sleep.”