3 – Sunan Abū Dāwūd

The Sunan of Abū Dāwūd is a work of great standing. Its author devoted meticulous care to gathering the hadiths of legal rulings, arranging them, and placing each under chapter headings that demonstrate his jurisprudential insight and his mastery of both transmission and understanding. Regarding it, Abū Sulaymān al-Khattābī said in