Abu Dawud al-Sijistani

Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
	Manuscript of al-Sijistani's Kitab al-sunan, probably created in Al-Andalus, dated 13th century
Personal
Born	817–18 CE / 202 AH; Sistan, Abbasid Caliphate
Died	889 CE / 275 AH; Basra, Abbasid Caliphate
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic golden age ; (Abbasid era)
Denomination	Sunni
School	Hanbali
Creed	Athari
Main interest(s)	ḥadīth and fiqh
Notable work(s)	Sunan Abī Dāwūd
Occupation	muhaddith
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini, Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh, Yahya ibn Ma'in;
	Influenced Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa'i;

Abū Dāwūd (Dā’ūd) Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath ibn Isḥāq al-Azdī al-Sijistānī (Arabic: أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث الأزدي السجستاني), commonly known as Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī, was a scholar of prophetic hadith who compiled the third of the six "canonical" hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims, the Sunan Abu Dāwūd.

^ El Shamsy, Ahmed (2013). "Chapter 8: Canonization beyond the Shafi'i School". The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-107-04148-6. Al-Buwayti... enjoyed the trust of traditionalist scholars such as Abu Dawud al-Sijistani and al-Humaydı as well as Ahmad b. Hanbal himself..
^ Melchert, Christopher (1997). "Chapter 8: The Maliki School". The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers. pp. 165–166. ISBN 90-04-10952-8. the later Iraqi traditionalist Abu Dawud says not only that he was weak..
^ Al-Bastawī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlīm ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm (1990). Al-Imām al-Jūzajānī wa-manhajuhu fi al-jarḥ wa-al-taʻdīl. Maktabat Dār al-Ṭaḥāwī. p. 9.

[1] El Shamsy, Ahmed (2013). "Chapter 8: Canonization beyond the Shafi'i School". The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-107-04148-6. Al-Buwayti... enjoyed the trust of traditionalist scholars such as Abu Dawud al-Sijistani and al-Humaydı as well as Ahmad b. Hanbal himself..

[2] Melchert, Christopher (1997). "Chapter 8: The Maliki School". The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers. pp. 165–166. ISBN 90-04-10952-8. the later Iraqi traditionalist Abu Dawud says not only that he was weak..

[3] Al-Bastawī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlīm ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm (1990). Al-Imām al-Jūzajānī wa-manhajuhu fi al-jarḥ wa-al-taʻdīl. Maktabat Dār al-Ṭaḥāwī. p. 9.

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Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
Manuscript of al-Sijistani's Kitab al-sunan, probably created in Al-Andalus, dated 13th century
Personal
Born	817–18 CE / 202 AH Sistan, Abbasid Caliphate
Died	889 CE / 275 AH Basra, Abbasid Caliphate
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic golden age (Abbasid era)
Denomination	Sunni
School	Hanbali
Creed	Athari^[1]^[2]
Main interest(s)	ḥadīth and fiqh
Notable work(s)	Sunan Abī Dāwūd
Occupation	muhaddith
Muslim leader
Influenced by Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani,^[3] Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini, Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh, Yahya ibn Ma'in
Influenced Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa'i