أبو داود
Abū Dāwūd
Person
Sulayman ibn al-Ash’ath al-Sijistani (817–889), compiler of the Sunan, one of the six canonical collections of hadith.
What it means
Abu Dawud was born in Sijistan and studied in Basra, Baghdad and elsewhere. His Sunan holds about 4,800 reports, mostly on questions of law, with his own comments where a report is weak. Scholars rank it just below the two Sahihs.