Collection: Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 23722

This tradition has also been transmitted by Sa’d b. Hisham b. ‘Amir with a different chain of narrators.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23718

When the Prophet (ﷺ) placed the dead in the grave, he said: In the name of Allah, and following the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). This is Muslim’s version.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23713

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The niche in the side of the grave is for us and the excavation in the middle is for others.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23714

Ali, Fadl and Usamah ibn Zayd washed the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and they put him in his grave. Marhab or Ibn AbuMarhab told me that they also made AbdurRahman ibn Awf join them. When Ali became free, he said: The People of the man serve him.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23715

That ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Awf alighted in the grave of the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: I still seem to see the four of them.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23716

Al-Harith left his will that Abdullah ibn Yazid should offer his funeral prayer; so he prayed over him. He then put him in the grave from the side of his legs and said: This is a Sunnah (model practice of the Prophet).

Sunan Abi Dawud 23717

We went out with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to the funeral of a man of the Ansar, but when we reached the grave, the niche in the side had not yet been made, so the Prophet (ﷺ) sat down facing the qiblah, and we sat down along with him.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23709

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave the people news of death of Negus on the day on which he died, took them out to the place of prayer, drew them up in rows and said: “Allah is Most Great” four times.

Sunan Abi Dawud 23710

On the authority of his father: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded us to proceed to the land of Negus. Mentioning the rest of the tradition he said that Negus said: I bear witness that he is the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and it is he about whom Christ son of Mary gave good news. […]