Sunan Abī Dāwūd is one of the six major hadith collections in Sunni Islam, compiled by Imam Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī. It focuses on hadiths related to Islamic law (fiqh), offering a detailed record of the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ that form the basis for legal rulings. Carefully selected from hundreds of thousands of narrations, it emphasizes authenticity and relevance to jurisprudence, making it a key reference for scholars and students of Islamic law.

Book 9, Zakat (Kitāb al‑Zakāt), discusses the obligations, types, and distribution of charitable alms (zakat).

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 73

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 73 Narrated AbuSa’id al-Khudri: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone begs when he has something equivalent to an uqiyah in value, he has begged immoderately. So I said: My she-camel, Yaqutah, is better than an uqiyah. The version of Hisham goes: “better than forty dirhams. So I returned and […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 74

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 74 Narrated Sahl ibn Hanzaliyyah: Uyaynah ibn Hisn and Aqra’ ibn Habis came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). They begged from him. He commanded to give them what they begged. He ordered Mu’awiyah to write a document to give what they begged. Aqra’ took his document, wrapped it […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 75

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 75 Narrated Ziyad ibn al-Harith as-Suda’i: I came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and swore allegiance to him, and after telling a long story he said: Then a man came to him and said: Give me some of the sadaqah (alms). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Allah […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 76

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 76 Abu Hurairah reported Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying : The poor man(miskin) is not one who is admitted (by the people) with one or two dates or with one or two morsels but is one, who does not beg anything from his people […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 77

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 77 Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said something similar as mentioned in the preceding tradition. This version adds: But the poor man (miskin) who abstains from begging from the people is one (according to the version of Musaddad who does not get enough so that he may […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 78

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 78 Narrated Ubaydullah ibn Adl ibn al-Khiyar: Two men informed me that they went to the Prophet (ﷺ) when he was at the Farewell Pilgrimage while he was distributing the sadaqah and asked him for some of it. He looked us up and down, and seeing that we were […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 79

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 79 Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr : The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Sadaqah may not be given to a rich man or to one who has strength and is sound in limbs. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Sufyan from Sa’d bin Ibrahim like the tradition narrated by […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 80

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 80 Narrated Ata ibn Yasar: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Sadaqah may not be given to rich man, with the exception of five classes: One who fights in Allah’s path, or who collects it, or a debtor, or a man who buys it with his money, or a man who […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 81

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 81 The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by abu-Said al-Khudri to the same effect to a different chain of narrators, attributing it to the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him). Abu-Dawud said : Ibn ‘Uyainah reported from Zaid, from whom Malik narrated and Thwari narrated from […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 82

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 82 Abu-Said reported : Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said : Sadaqah is not lawful for a rich person except what comes as a result of Jihad or what a poor neighbor gifts you out of the sadaqah given to him, or he entertains you in […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 83

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 83 Basheer b. Yasar said that a man from the Ansar called Sahi b. abu-Hatmah told him that Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) gave one Hundred camels to him a blood-wit from among the camels of sadaqah, i.e a blood-wit for the Ansari who was killed […]

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 84

Sunan Abi Dawud: Book 9, Hadith 84 Narrated Samurah ibn Jundub: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Acts of begging are lacerations with which a man disfigures his face, so he who wishes may preserve his self-respect, and he who wishes may abandon it; but this does not apply to one who begs from a ruler, or […]