Collection: Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 23890

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by ‘Urwat al-Bariqi through a different chain of narrators. The wordings of this version are different from those of the previous one.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23891

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent with him a dinar to buy a sacrificial animal for him. He bought a sheep for a dinar, sold it for two and then returned and bought a sacrificial animal for a dinar for him and brought the (extra) dinar to the Prophet (ﷺ). The Prophet (ﷺ) gave it […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 23892

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If any of you can become like the man who had a faraq of rice, he should become like him. They (the people) asked: Who is the man who had a faraq of rice with him, Messenger of Allah ? Thereupon he narrated the story of the […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 23883

“Wearing the samma’ means that a man puts his garment over his left shoulder and keeps his right side uncovered. Munabadhah means that a man says (to another): If I throw this garment to you, the sale will be certain. Mulamasah means that a man touches it (another’s garment) with his hand and neither he […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 23884

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu Said al-Khudri through a different chain of narrators from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to the same effect as narrated by both Sufyan and ‘Abd al-Razzaq.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23886

Habal al-habalah means that a she-camel delivers an offspring and then the offspring which it delivers becomes pregnant.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23887

A time is certainly coming to mankind when people will bite each other and a rich man will hold fast, what he has in his possession (i.e. his property), though he was not commanded for that. Allah, Most High, said: “And do not forget liberality between yourselves.” The men who are forced will contract sale […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 23880

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade sale of fruits for a number of years. One of the two narrators (Abu al-Zubair and Sa’id b. Mina’) mentioned the words “sale for years” (bai’ al-sinin instead of al-mu’awamah).

Sunan Abi Dawud 23881

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the type of sale which involves risk (or uncertainty) and a transaction determined by throwing stones.