Sunan Abu Dawood (Arabic: سُنَنِ أَبِي دَاوُدَ) is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections).[1] It was collected by Abu Dawood.[2]Sunnis regard this collection as fourth in strength of their six major hadith collections.[3]
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Abu Dawud collected 500,000 hadith, but included only 4,800 in this collection. It took Abu Dawood 20 years to collect the hadiths.[4]