 وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ أَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُوَ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُوَ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثاناء الجميل وشدوى الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وشدوى النسيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله وتعالى today we are going to start the explanation of the Kitab Sunan Abu Dawood but the norm of the scholars is before they talk or before they go into the book and they explain the book the norms of the Ulama is that they they talk about the author of the book and they talk about the book itself so insha'Allah with ta'ala today we are going to spend some time today we are going to spend some time doing two things the first thing insha'Allah with ta'ala is we are going to be speaking about Al-Imam Abu Dawood himself we are going to be speaking about the author Abu Dawood أسجسطاني ورحمه الله and then also what we are going to do is we are going to speak about the book Sunan Abu Dawood why did we choose this book what's the significance of this book what's so great about this book and etc. matters pertaining to the book so insha'Allah with ta'ala I don't think that we will be able to finish all of that today so maybe today we will spend more time on that and the book might start tomorrow insha'Allah with ta'ala the way that I plan to speak about Al-Imam Abu Dawood أسجسطاني ورحمه الله is two ways the way that I plan to speak about him is in two ways the first way is سيرة الإمام Abu Dawood أسجسطاني والشخصية I'm going to speak about his personal life and the second way that I'm going to speak about his life is حياته الإمام Abu Dawood العلمية I'm going to be speaking about his knowledge how he attained knowledge how he gained knowledge and matters pertaining to that insha'Allah with ta'ala and where he traveled to once I finish speaking about الإمام Abu Dawood رحمه الله and then I'm going to go into speaking about Sunan Abu Dawood the book itself and the way that I plan to speak about Sunan Abu Dawood is التعريف بسناني الإمام Abu Dawood I'm going to define the book what is the name of the book who are the people narrated this book to us how many chapters does the book consist of and how many books does it consist of how many books are in there and how many babs are there in there we're also going to mention the number of hadiths that are in there and the Makkana the position that Sunan Abu Dawood holds once I finish speaking about that I'm going to move on to the second part of the book which is I'm going to speak about the methodology I'm going to speak about the methodology of Abu Dawood in the Sunan how his method is and the way that he authored this book so insha'Allah with ta'ala is going to be a long but insha'Allah beneficial and official introduction insha'Allah with ta'ala so let's go into the first chapter which is سيرة الإمام Abu Dawood الشخصية talking about the personal life of الإمام Abu Dawood الإمام Abu Dawood his name is سليمان ابن الأشعث ابن إسحاق ابن بشير ابن شدد ابن عمر ابن عمرul أسديو الابن أمر ابنُ داسا أيضا أن يرنت إلى أحد الأحتفاف اخبار معكلما هو سيرها اخبار معقوم بما لدس يومي يالصيت على مجرم يومي أيضا انتهي اوان mayman أبي داود سوف نتحدث عن ناريتز الذي ناريتز هذا الموضوع لنا شخص أبنو داسا قال هذا هو نام أبي داود سليمان أبنو الأشعس أبنو إسحاق أبنو بشير أبنو شداد أبنو عمر أبنو عمران الأزديو وابو طاهر السلف رحمه الله بكسر السين قال بعده أبي داود يقول وهذا القول في نسبة الأمثل والقلب إليه أميال أن هذا وهذا القول في نسبه هذا الموضوع that we just chosen هذا الموضوع that we put together يقول it is the most correctest والقلب إليه أميال والهاء is more inclined to that يعني because the person who is mentioning his name is who is his student إبنو بداس رحمه الله and the student knows his teacher more ألمام أبو داود became very famous بكونيته with his kunya he became very famous with his what his kunya is known as أبو داود he became famous for that and that is what he is more famous for than his actual name if anybody tells you today سليبان إبنو الأشعس you may not know who he is but if somebody says to you ألمام أبو داود you most likely know who he is so he became very well known because of his kunya رحمه الله ألمام أبو داود's granddad عمران is من من قتل ما علي بصفين his granddad Ali is one of the people who fought with Ali ألمام أبو داود is asdee and asdee is a Arab lineage he is an Arab ألمام إبنو أبو داود is an Arab من قبيل أبو داود is an Arab is an Arab is an Arab is an Arab is an Arab من قبيلة الأزد it is من القبائل العربية الكبرى it is from one of the well-known Arab Arab Arab lineages ألمام أبو داود's family they traveled from Yemen and they resided in خرسان and the sheikh is رحمه الله as we are going to see where he was born ألمام أبو داود رحمه الله he is from the land of Sijistan he is from the land of Sijistan and Sijistan today falls in part of Iran and part of Afghanistan the majority of it is in what 40% is in Iran and 60% of Sijistan is in what Afghanistan رحمه الله he was born رحمه الله the time in which he was born he was born in 1990 the year was 202 that's the view held by his student أبو عبيد الأجرير رحمه الله he said I heard I heard I was born the year 202 I was born the year then he was born 8 years after 8 years after who ألمام أبو داود 8 years older than who because ألمام أبو داود was born 192 1994 and ألمام أبو داود رحمه الله he died after بخاري 19 years so he lived after بخاري 19 years 19 years ألمام أبو داود رحمه الله who died 19 years after ألمام أبو داود رحمه الله ألمام أبو داود was born in a family who had that love knowledge his father his father أبو داود he is from the people who narrated from who he is from the people who narrated from who he is from the people who narrated from who حماد يبنو زيدن and أبو داود all the brother Muhammad he is from those people who traveled excessively to seek knowledge of hadith and to attain the knowledge of hadith and to attain the knowledge of hadith ألمام أبو داود his own son أبو بكر is from the what from the people who took knowledge from him and was well known for his knowledge his son أبو بكر أبو داود was married he used to have a maid as we are going to see later and he had a son whose name is عبد الله but his kunya is what أبا بكر المصاحف that he authored and the haia the haia he is written by who أبو داود his son أبو بكر and he is from the well known حفاظة المعروفين حفاظة الحديث و لذلك أمام أبو داود when he came to Egypt and he met أحمد ابن صالح and Abu Dawood met أحمد ابن صالح المصري and Abu Dawood had his son with him أبو بكر and he went together and أحمد ابن صالح المصري had a policy which is that he would never allow anyone to sit in his gathering who had no bid even if it was a child it didn't care أحمد ابن صالح he said his condition is that the person who comes to his حلقة has to have a bid so Abu Dawood brought what he brought his son with him who is very young so when he brought his son أبو بكر أحمد ابن صالح he said take him out of the حلقة and then he said to him my son is a strong individual أبو بكر and Abu Dawood saying this my son is very strong in knowledge ask him anything you want test him with whatever comes to your mind and see if he is if he should stay in this حلقة so أحمد ابن صالح المصري he tested him and when he tested him he realized that أبو بكر ابن أبي Dawood was strong every question he asked him he answered it and so he said you can stay in the حلقة and he was the first and last person that أحمد ابن صالح ever allowed to come to his gathering who had no bid so this is his offspring ألمان أبي Dawood رحمه الله and also ألمان أبي Dawood had a brother known as محمد ابن الأشعاص he was a bit older than him not much but a bit older than him and he was his رفق they used to accompany each other to go and seek the knowledge of حديث and travel and this is all what ألمان مدهبي you mentioned now we are going to go into شمائله وفضائله the virtues and the nobility of this great Imam ألمان أبي Dawood رحمه الله ألمان أبي Dawood had great characteristics his personality was amazing رحمه الله and one of the things that he was very well known is he was an individual who had high aspiration he was never pleased with the bare minimum he always wanted to be number one he always wanted to be first in everything he was also well known for his عمل بما علمه he was well known for following that which he knew to implement the knowledge that he knew who is very well known for that رحمه الله واتمثل بِالسنة and implementing and living by the sunnah he was well known for that كما عُرِفَا as he was also known بِالزُهْدِ في الدنيا he was very aesthetic a person who took bare minimum from this dunya he didn't like the dunya and he wasn't too much into the dunya رحمه الله the scholars of his time they praised him for that some of the examples that were mentioned about he is تمثل بِالسنة النبوية سلوك ومنهجن that he followed the sunnah and that he was a person who held on to the sunnah is what Al-Imam Al-Khattib Al-Baghdani mentioned in his year with his chain of narration from Al-A'mash سليمان ابن مهران عن إبراهيم عن عالقامه عالقامه ابن قيس رحمه الله ابن عبد الله كان عبد الله عبد الله ابن مسعود عبد الله ابن مسعود was a person يشبه بالنبي the people used to say عبد الله ابن مسعود he resembles who the messenger the people used to say that عبد الله ابن مسعود he resembles who the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم في هديه وسمتي in the way he carried himself and in the way he was وكان عالقامه عبد الله عالقامه ابن قيس عالقامه ابن قيس عبد الله النخعي الكوفي was very similar to عبد الله ابن مسعود وقال جرير عبد الحميد كان إبراهيم يشبه بالعالقامه إبراهيم النخعي was like عالقامه ابن قيس he resembled him وكان منصور يشبه وكان جرير was very similar to who تبراهيم النخعي and سفيان ابن سعيد الثوريو he was very similar to منصور وكان وكيع جراحة الرؤاسي was very similar to سفيان ابن سعيد الثوريو وكان was resembled to وكيع من جرحة الرؤاسي and ألمام أبي داود was similar to ألمام أحمد رحمه الله يشبه بأحمد ابن حبل and this is the senate of how they resembled each other starting from who from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and then who عبد الله ابن مسعود عالقامه ابن قيس إبراهيم النخعي and then منصور أم من سفيان ابن عيينة and then وكيع من جرحة الرؤاسي and أحمد ابن حبل رحمه الله and from Ahmed was who ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله so this is how he was in following the sunnah أحمد رحمه الله was very well known for his so following of the sunnah also ألمام أبي داود characteristics was he had he respected himself he respected himself in the sense where no one could buy ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله and no one could give him money and bribe him whether it's a leader or anyone else وذلك and inshallah we're going to see that soon the famous story that took place between ألمام أبي داود and the leader of his time the Khalifa of his time ألمام الموفق ألمام ألمام الموفق رحمه الله he came to ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله when the fitnah happened in Basra we're going to speak about that in details very soon there's a great fitnah that took place we're going to speak about it and where the fitnah came from and what was the fitnah about ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله the leader came and knocked on his door at night time and when he knocked on his door ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله he's made he's had him open the door and then he said I want Abu Dawood where is he and he told Abu Dawood he's in his room writing so he came to him to ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله and when he came to him and he said to him I have three requests I have three requests I'm going to speak about that in more details inshallah one of the requests that he had that he put forward was that he said I want you to allow my children to sit and narrate from you the sunan your sunan the leader said in this to him ألمام أبي داود he said okay but he said with the condition that you give them a majlis khas a specific for them no one else comes except them for the children of the leader and an Imam أبي داود responded and he said for this there's no way for this لأن الناس شريفهم ووضيعهم في العلم سواء because the honorable one and the low one when it comes to knowledge they all equal well he rejected that offer or he rejected that request and so the leader later he didn't stop his children from coming to the حلقة of ألمام أبي داود so what he did was he allowed his children to come but they used to place a silk curtain between the children of the leader and the general mass so they will come to the حلقة but they were kind of segregated from the rest of the the people and this is سبحان الله the reality of when a person becomes a leader and what it comes with those people wanted the sunan they were good leaders that they wanted the children to learn sunan أبي داود but even learn look what's taking place at that time and Imam أبي داود was also known for his ورعه وتواضع he was a person with very aesthetic he was pleased with the bare minimum رحمه الله and he also had ورع meaning if anything was doubtful he would stay away from it رحمه الله and he was a person who was very humble ولي ذلك ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله he used to wear the most basic clothing that there was رحمه الله and one of the things that he used to say when he put his clothes on and he wore it and people would say things about it is that he used to say anyone who suffices himself على لباس دون who suffices himself with clothes below everybody else ومطعم دون and food that is below everybody else أراح جسده that person will bring relaxation to his body because you won't struggle I want to eat this I want to wear this you will stress out too much anyone whose clothes is below the standard and he takes the bare minimum that individual he will find راحة الجسد and enjoy himself just put the clothes on eat whatever food that suffices you because إخوة if you go to a restaurant and you pay 10,000 pounds or 1,300 or hundreds of pounds to eat and if a person eats a bread both of you are the same so we see you could remove hunger with a dry bread so why are you so stressed and why are you always worried you could remove your hunger with what you could with a dry bread if you eat an expensive food and an expensive restaurant and if you eat a bread both of them will take away from you what the hunger that you have so he was a very aesthetic person he also used to say الشهوة الخفية the hidden شهوة one of the hidden شهوة is حب الرئاسة loving leadership he used to say this is a hidden شهوة many people don't know that it's in them but it's a hidden desire which is حب الرئاسة being in charge being the forefront being at the front he also used to say خير الكلام ما دخل ما دخل الأؤدن he used to say the best of speech is that which enters the ears بغير الإذن without permission that's the best of speech he used to say he was also a very humble person very humble رحمه الله and the thing that shows how humble he is is that when he wrote his it's really well known as sorry not رسالة إلهي زبيد رسالة إلهي مكة when he wrote his رسالة is رسالة إلهي مكة where a group of people sent a letter to him from مكة asking him about his سنن how did he author it what was his idea about his book how did he structure it so he wrote a letter for them in response and إن شاء الله تعالى we're going to touch on that رسالة إن شاء الله سوم and Imam Abu Dawood in that رسالة he says something very powerful he says فربما تركت الحديثة I might leave of a حديث إذا لم أفقه if I do not understand it I will leave a حديث إذا لم أفقه if I do not understand that حديث I will leave it showing that he believed that there was things that he didn't know رحمه الله رحمة واسعة some of us when we learn something very small we think that we have gathered all of the knowledge there is so this was his تواضغ رحمه الله and Imam Abu Dawood وفات who he died after he spent years of جد and it's had hard work and effort and consistent and continuous continuous studying and teaching he died رحمه الله on a Friday لأربعة عشرة بقية بشوال four days was remaining for shawal when the year was مئتين خمسين وسبعين ومئتين 275 هجرية الشيخ رحمه الله he died and look how much he used to follow when he died and when he died and he realized this is an illness that he will not wake up from it's an illness that he's going to die from and Imam Abu Dawood done something astonishing he requested او صع يغسله حسر ابل المثنة he requested that the person who is going to wash his body is حسر ابل المثنة he said he should wash my body and حسر ابل المثنة ابن معادل عمبري رحمه الله he was an abid al-faqih ثقة وثبت he was a reliable individual he was an individual who was known عابد واشبه a very well-known man for that ألمام الدهبي you speak about him he said I want him to wash my body because he said he knows this matter very well he said if he refuses and he says he's not going to do it for whatever reason it may be he said go and look at في كتاب سليمان ابن حربن he said take the Kitab written by سليمان ابن حربن and and this was the Kitab that was written on the جنائي تكفين البيت the جنازة how to pray it how to wash the dead body was in that book he said look at that book فعملوا به implement what is in it I want you to don't do however you guys want follow the athar and the ahadith and the marouillat that are in that book follow it in washing my body وقد حصل ما وصى به what he requested for ألمام أبي داود it took place and it happened which is that من المثنة من المعاذ العمبري ورحمه الله he accepted to wash the body of ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله and the person who led the salaf was ألعبات عبد الواحد رحمه الله ابن جعفر ابن سليمان he led the prayer for ألمام أبي داود and they buried him next to سفيان ابن سعيد الثوري رحمه الله ألمام أبي داود مع الله except from him كلما قدمه every effort that he put forth للأمة الإسلامية for this umma وأسكانه فسيحة جنانتي and by Allah reside him in جنة الفردوس we've now finished the first part of ألمام أبي داود which is سيرة ألمام أبي داود الشخصية we're now going to talk about his personal life we're now going to move on to حيات ألمام أبي داود العلمية we're now going to observe and look at his biography from the angle of the knowledge he attained and how he attained that knowledge and he's travelling around the Muslim world ألمام أبي داود started to go travelling and seeking knowledge before the age of 90 رحمه الله so he's he was from the early people who did the رحلات travelling to take knowledge from the scholars he did all of this دون العشرين عامن it was 19 and below when ألمام أبي داود started to travel to seek knowledge and we're going to see in more details the places that he's traveled to and the places he went to ألمام أبو عبد الله الحاكم النسابوريو he mentioned in his كتاب تاريخ الدمشق he mentioned it even if you want تاريخ الدمشق وزرسن بأبن عساكر الكتاب تهديب الأسماء واللغات بألمام النويو they being the statement of who ألمام أبو عبد الله حاكم النسابوريو that he said وكتب بخرسان قبل خروج إلى العراق في بلدي that he wrote in خرسان before he went to العراق and before he travelled من مكان أخرى he first of all wrote from the scholars of خرسان and then he started to travel and he said he did all of this دون العشرين before he reached the age of 20 compare our 20 year olds today to the 20 year olds of that time the 20 year olds of that time they saw it a responsibility on them to go seek knowledge because they believe that the umma one day will need them عبد الله عباس when he wanted to seek knowledge and he wanted to travel he went to an Ansari man and he said to him come let's go seek knowledge of hadith let's travel let's go and seek knowledge and then he said تألمان عبد الله عباس the Ansari man said are the people going to need you when there are كبار الصحابة the noble companions are alive do you really think that the people are going to need you عبد الله عباس didn't listen and he said تألمان عبد الله عباس he went and he traveled until what happened he traveled everywhere he met companions he sat in front of some of the companions houses he wouldn't even knock their doors doesn't anyone know why عبد الله عباس wouldn't knock the people's doors to take hadith from him and he said عبد الله عباس and he said عبد الله عباس to take hadith from them but he would wait for them to come out on their own accord does anyone know that's out of respect any other reason yeah he would never knock the door whenever time it was whenever he got there he came in case a female opens the door no out of respect for knowledge out of respect for knowledge but any other reason other than that they're happy with you نعم all those that you guys mentioned are a superb but عبد الله عباس was interpreting the ayah in the Quran doesn't anyone know that ayah is in Surat al-Hujurat which ayah and who can read the ayah for us Surat al-Hujurat Surat al-Hujurat not the ayah ولو أنهم صبروا حتى تخرج إليه بلا كان خيرا لهم if they were patient until you came out لكان خيرا لهم this is for the prophet of Allah but he interpreted it for everybody who took the place of the prophet and said him he teach knowledge ولو أنهم صبروا if they only were patient حتى تخرج إليه until they came out on you لكان خيرا لهم it would have been better for them نعم عبد الله عباس Surat ayah to apply here and so he would never ever knock on somebody's door who he came to seek knowledge from he would wait for that person to come out on their own accord and when they came out he would take knowledge from them this is honoring and venerating and glorifying knowledge and how respect they had for it رحمهم الله ورضي الله ويتعالى عنه so Imam Abu Dawud did that he traveled he sought knowledge but there's something fascinating of Imam Abu Dawud رحمه الله which is that Imam Abu Dawud he traveled after he had gained knowledge from the people of his land this is something very important that we need to touch on which is that first of all Imam Abu Dawud he took from the people of his land as we're going to see Imam Abu Dawud traveled to 14 different places how many places 14 is what I have listed for me 14 5 of them was Khurasan the land he was from when he finished Khurasan where is Khurasan? I mentioned Khurasan what did I say? so that's the Jistan inside Khurasan but Khurasan is it is part of Afghanistan Uzbekistan Iran Turkmenistan all of this land was known as what? was all known as Khurasan and the land known as Ray Ray was what? it was Tehran Tehran which is the capital of what? Iran today was one time أرض التوحيد والسنة Ray was one time what? أرض التوحيد والسنة ولذلك أبو حاتم الرازي والرازي is a Ray الرازي means Ray أبو زرعة الرازي and the life of these scholars they came from where? Tehran this is where they were from and Allah changed these things سبحانه وتعالى a land that was once a land of توحيد and sunnah will turn into a land which is what? التشيء والكفر والإلحاد will change from one thing to another this is the sunnah of Allah سبحانه وتعالى الامام أبي داود رحمه الله five of those places that he went to was Khurasan and he took from the people of what? Khurasan first he attained knowledge from them ولذلك it is upon the person that before they go to any other place they take knowledge from who? they take from the people of their land there's a calam با الامام الخطيح الامام الخطيب البغدادي رحمه الله و he spoke about هساد رحمه الله الامام الخطيب البغدادي و he said إذا عزم الطالب على الرحلة ف ينبغي إلا يترك في بلده من روات أحدا إلا و يكتب عنه ما تسر من الأحاديث و انقلت الامام الخطيب البغدادي و he said إذا استعجار فعل of wanting to travel to see knowledge ف ينبغي what is required first from him الله يترك في بلده that he leaves his land من الرواتي that there are people narrators and people of knowledge are at your land who have knowledge, who can offer you knowledge don't leave them and go somewhere else because if you say that you're going to seek knowledge when you go to Jamiah Islam and Medina and you're in a land but you're not learning the Quran in your local Masjid and you're not studying in your local Masjid then what is it really going to be when you go to that country or you go to Medina or you go to that country that you want to go to are you truly going to gain knowledge from it the chances is actually very low when you look at him he started with all of the lands of Khurasan he finished it the first land he went to is and Imam Abu Dawood this is all before he reached the age of what the age of 20 رحمة الله the first land he went to is Heerat رحمة الله he went there and he took from the scholars of that land he took from أحمد ابن محمد ابن ياسين الهراوي he also went to Baglan and Imam Abu Dawood he went to Baglan and he took from the Imam of that place قطيبت ابن السعيد البغلاني رحمه الله he took from him he went to Array it went to Array and when he went to Array he had all of this before he is actually at this point 17 years old and Imam Abu Dawood when he goes to Array history wise tarikh wise is actually 17 he is at that place from ابراهيم ابن موسى he is from ابراهيم ابن موسى الفراء الرازي رحمه الله then he goes to Naysabur and he is from Naysabur it's حاق ابن راهوية and when he went and took from his حاق ابن راهوية he also waited because Imam is حاق ابن راهوية at this time he became very ill so he waited and he prayed his جنازه on him رحمه الله Imam Abu Dawood also went to Asbahan as Imam Abu Nuaim Al Asbahaniou mentioned he went there and he took from the scholars of that land all of those 5 places I mentioned all of them are Khurasan now Imam Abu Dawood once he finished Khurasan he embarked رحلته إلى خارج سجستان and Khurasan he went out and he went to travel رحمه الله the first place he started with was he started with Baghdad the reason why he started with البغداد because Baghdad was حاضرة to العالم الإسلامي this was the hub it was actually the hub of knowledge it was the beacon of knowledge in the Islamic world ولذلك الكثير من the scholars like Imam Al-Adryu the author of the Kitaba Shari'a he was from Iraq and it was said that he never traveled outside it because if you were in Baghdad or Kufa in this land you had it all there was no need for you to have to travel so when he went there he met Affan Ibn Muslim Al-Saffar and he took knowledge from him and he prayed janaza on him as well رحمه الله and some scholars they said that he reached Affan Ibn Muslim Al-Saffar and when he came to Affan Ibn Muslim Al-Saffar he just prayed janaza on him when he got there it was dead and he prayed janaza on him also Imam Abu Dawood he went to Basra and when he went to Basra he also reached there two days they said and some say بيوم واحد one day after the death of who عثباري بن الهيث من المؤذين one day after he died so this is one day after he died وعليكم السلام also he traveled to الكوفة رحمه الله and Imam Abu Dawood went to Kufa and when he went into Kufa he stayed there but they said they said that the length of he staying in this place wasn't too long it was very short he left it and he went to Hijaz after that he went to in what do you call it كوفة he heard from الهيث من خالد الجهن رحمه الله and others he went to Makkah and when he went to Makkah he heard from the old and this could be said the oldest person he narrated from was عبدالله بالمسلمة القعنبي he heard from him in Makkah عبدالله بالمسلمة القعنبي died the year 221 and عبدالله بالمسلمة القعنبي is from the الروات of Sunnah موطع مالك from the narrators of what the موطع of Imam Malik رحمه الله so these are the earliest people he narrated from وليذلك ألمام أبي داود is level to ألمام مسلم رحمه الله in that regard because ألمام مسلم his oldest teacher is عبدالله بالمسلمة القعنبي so in this regard ألمام أبي داود is level to ألمام مسلم in narrators he narrated from he also went to المدينة النبوية and he met the scholars of Medina and he took from them he went to Damasque he took from النظر بن إصحاق ابن إبراهيم الدمشقي and when Imam أبي داود saw him he sat him he sat with him ما رأيت بدمشقه مثله I never saw anyone like بن نظر إصحاق I never saw anyone in Damasque like him كان كثير البكاء he used to cry a lot كتبت عنه ألمام أبي داود he said I wrote from him سنة ثنتين وعشرينة when the year was 22 he also went to Hims many times and at that place he took from the scholars of Hims like حيوة بن شريك ابن يزيد الحضرمي he also took from يزيد بن عبد ربه الزبيدي and many others he also went to Halab ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله and he took from أبو توبة الربيع بن نافع الحلب رحمه الله he went to Harran he went from أحمد بن أبي الشعيب he went to Jazeera he went from أبي جعفر النفايلي and many others he went to الرملة نبفوت 12 he went to and he had from يحيبن هاني البلخي نزيلو ترصوص he also went to بيروت and he had from عباس ابن الوليد ابن مزيد he went to Egypt and when he went to Egypt as I said before he had from who? أحمد بن صالح المصري he had from him and he took with him who? his son ألمام أبي داود he took his son with him and when he took his son with him أحمد بن صالح he said I don't allow people who don't have bids to come to my حلقة so he said to him he said أحفظو he's more memorised without saying this about his son أحفظو he has more memorisation and more أحديت من أصحاب اللحة those who have bids درائنو حلقة فمتحينه بما أراته تستمد wherever you wish so أحمد بن صالح تستره فسأله عن أشياء ياسم سماتز أجابه بن أبي داود عن جميعها all of it فحدثته حينا إذن and so he started to give him narrations he said okay narrate from me if you want ولم you حديث أحمد بن صالح المصري that day on which he didn't allow anyone to come to his حلقة who had no bids to come and listen after that if you guys have an iPhone I could send you a picture of the map of the travelling of أحمد بن أبي داود how he looked the lands that he went to so I can just send it to you you can send it to the rest of the students and look at it and see the lands that he travelled to and the places that he went to رحمه الله تعالى this is جزيرة العرب he went to مكان مدينة he went to Baghdad يا إخوة Baghdad he went to Damasque he went to Khurasan all of these lands he walked with his foot and today some of us may have a lesson going in a local masjid maybe an hour travel and we may not go these are the points that I think are very vital to take out of the رحالات of ألمام أبي داود the travelling of ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله number one is the lands that he travelled and the distance that he cut was very vast was very vast بلاد واسع lands that were very vast ألمام أبي داود travel to it رحمه الله تعالى he went to Afghanistan these are the current countries today Afghanistan Iran Iraq Syria Jordan Turkey بلاد الحرامين and Egypt all of these are the land he travelled to Afghanistan and then Iran Iraq Syria Jordan Turkey مكان مدينة حرامين and Haramin of course is Makkah and Medina and Egypt all of that today is what is hours of light if one wants to travel around how many is hours to travel this and all of this he travelled رحمه الله some of those journeys he was what in Ramadan fasting and he was travelling and in the deserts رحمه الله التعالى the second benefit that you can take from his journey and his travelling was the land in which ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله he travelled to is lands that were uniquely known for scholars that were concentrated in it and one of the smart things when travelling to seek knowledge is that you don't go to a land where there's only one or two people you can take knowledge from but that you travel to a land where you want to take حديث but there are many people if one person dies you have many other options of taking knowledge from other people ولذلك الخطيب البغدادية رحمه الله he mentions in his كتاب is that if you travel for one or two people and when you get that the person dies your journey would be what would be of waste you didn't attain what you wanted but if you go to a land if you go to a land where there's رحلة he mentions that when he went to seek knowledge he consulted his شيخ and his teachers if he should travel to that land and they said to him that land that you're travelling to there's only one person if he dies the chances of you taking from that person is very low because remember those people it was an hours of travelling it was months sometimes years so they might die because you all know that the person died until you get there there's no communication so they all advise him to go to places where it was populated with people of knowledge also an Imam رحمه الله the third benefit that we take from it is that he gave a lot of consideration to hearing a hadith from the كبار the senior those who were aged and those who were senior in knowledge the reason is because those people رزقهم الله العلم الله has provided them with knowledge and experience and knowledge and wisdom حكمة so those are the people who he chose to go to those who were old aged individuals we're going to see that إن شاء الله also an Imam أبي داود would narrate the fourth benefit that we take from his الحالات is that he would narrate from a person one person in many different places for example he said كتبت عن مؤمن ابن إيهاب I wrote from I wrote from مؤمن ابن إيهاب I wrote from him in الرملة حلب and حمس only one person in three different places because he would go here and then he would hear that he went to another place he would go back to in that place so that he would take from and also if you look at the map إن شاء الله تعاله he would be amazed of how much he did we're going to now go into the شيوخ of ألمام أبي داود ألمام أبي داود's teachers as we mentioned before أبي داود traveled a lot و لذلك ألمام الخطيب البغدان أن أبل حجاج المزيد يسربهم أحد من رحل و طوف وجمع و صنف و كتب عن العراقيين والخراسانيين والشاميين والمصريين والحجازيين اللذي جاء لهم فقد منطولهم إبن الدقيقة العيد إنشارح الألمام و لكنه فقد ده أبو داود كان له حظ من علول إسناد بعد أبي ألمام أبي داود أبي داود كان صغير و كتب ألمام البخاري و قد شارك و في جماعة لم يشارك و في الرواجة عنهم غيره من between أصحابين يكون فيIt المكتبين لا تشاهدون ذلك معهم. الإمام الحافظ المزيو. وإمام ابن حجر. وإمام الشيوخ أبي داود 300. وإمام الشيخ سيق عبد الله بن صالح البراك. وإمام المعجب المجتمل على ذك الأسباع الشيوخ الأئمة النبل. وإمام رتب حافظ ابن عساكر رحمه الله. وإمام المنطقة من أسباع المنطقة. وإمام المنطقة 421. هذا هو المنطقة. الإمام الحافظ أبي عالي الحسيني بلمحمد الجياني رحمه الله. ودايدة 490. أي تجرية. وقلت كتاب كتسمية الشيوخة بداود السجستاني. وإمام المنطقة 440. 49. على كل حال الإمام ابداود أسبب 500. وكتب المنطقة ويتجرية المنطقة. ويتجرية. وننائس المنطقة. وانتباه. أول طبقة أولئة من خلال المنطقة هو من أجل منهم في بداية الإدام. وكان هذا في بداية طالب العلم. أول كان يجب أن أجل منهم. ونعلم منهم. أول أجل للم. إبراهيم ابن موسى الفراء الرازي. حفظ ابن عمر الضليل البصري و عبد الله ابن مسلمة القعنبي عاصم ابن عليب و عاصم الواسطي مسلم البيبراهيم الفراهيدي محمد ابن كثير العبدي البصري موسى ابن اسماعيل التبوذكي رحمه الله و سعيد ابن مصورة الخرساني والحافظ هؤلاء الثلاثة التي اخبرتها من تقدم سماعهم كانت منهم و حصلتهم على إمام أبي داود في بداية طلبه للعلم when his first ally in seeking knowledge طبقة ثانية there's a next level and these are the ones who he narrated from them a lot these are شيوخهم الذين أكثر منهم he narrated from them a lot of times number one is مسدد ابن مصرحد البصري يحيبن معين عليبن عبد الله المديني أبو بكر من أبي شيبة إسحاقبر إبراهيم ابن مخلد الحنضلي يعني إسحاقبن راهويا قوتيبة ابن السعيد ابن جميل البغلاني الإمام أحمد ابن محمد ابن حنبل هناد ابن سريو ابن مصعب أبو سريو الكوفي محمد ابن عالائبن كريبل همداني أحمد ابن صالح المصري محمد ابن بشار البصري who's known as ابن بندار محمد ابن يحيا الذهلي رحمه الله محمد ابن يحيا ابن عبد الله ابن خالد الذهلي رحمه الله النسابوري and other than them these are the ones who he narrated a lot from them we're going to see the number of times he narrated from them in his sunan these are the 12 then we have the طبقة to the third level are they are people that are like his peers في عداد طبقته وبعضهم من أقرانه they are level to like his aqaran his contemporaries from them is الحسن المحمد الصباح عمر ابن الخطاب السيجستاني العباس ابن واليد عباس ابن محمد دوري محمد ابن عوف الطائي these are the ones who are like his aqaran but he narrated from them and they narrated from him now I'm going to mention scholars who we can say they are the ones who الامام ابي داود narrated the most from they're 20 these 20 if you memorize them they're the most common 20 narrators that keep coming in sunan ابي داود and if you do memorize their names then it would be easy for you to memorize the chain if you ever want to the first of them is مسدد من مصر هد who died in year 228 الامام ابي داود and he narrated from him 539 times in his sunan so he's the most a lot of the times we're going to see that مسدد من مصر هد الواصني who's going to say that a lot of times this is from the most famous and the most common شيخ of الامام ابي داود رحمه الله and he narrated from him 539 times the second person in number is عبد الله المسلمة القعنبي who died in year 221 and he narrated from him 329 times I'm at 336 times the second is موسى ابنو سماعين التبوذك who died in year 223 he narrated from him 314 times he narrated from him and then we have عثمان ابنو أبي شيبة is the author of the مسنف and he narrated from him 282 times أمام أحمد ابن حنبل who died in year 240 4141 هجرية he narrated from him 229 times أطيب ابن السعيد ابن جميل البغلاني رحمه الله he narrated from him 155 أمام أحمد ابنو صالح المصري he narrated from him 149 times عبد الله المحمد النفيلي he narrated from him 142 times الحسن من عالي الحولاني he narrated from 132 times محمد ابنو كتير العبدي he narrated from him 129 times مسلم ابن براهيم الفراهيدي he narrated from 108 times محمد ابنو المثنة البصري he narrated from him 100 times حفص ابنو عمر ابنو الحارث النمري he narrated from him 98 times محمد ابنو العلابنو قريب الحمداني he narrated from him 85 times أحمد ابنو عمر ابنو صرح he narrated from him 80 times محمد ابنو يحيا الذهلي he narrated from him 71 times محمد البشار البصري he was known as بندار he narrated from him 68 times سلمان ابنو حرب 64 times هناد ابنو السري he narrated from him 66 times ابراهيم ابنو موسى الفراء الرازيو he narrated from him 55 times those are the people who he narrated the most from in his Sunan and those are who he رحمه الله took a lot from but the people who we can say تخصص عليهم that he specialized in he spent his life with he sat under are generally three people ألمام أبي داود رحمه الله the first one of them is ألمام أحمد ابن حمبل رحمه الله he stuck very close by him and he took knowledge from him and also يحيب المعين and the third one is الإمام علي ابنو المديني رحمه الله he benefited from all three of them استفادة منهم benefited from them ونقل أراءهم and he transmitted their opinions if you read Sunanabi Dawood you will see that he transmits the views of Imam Ahmad and the views of يحيب المعين in جرحب التعديل and also Ali الإبنو المديني and Ali من المديني is the man that ألمام البخاري he said مستصغر تونفسي I never belittled myself in the presence of anyone ألمام البخاري he said this I never belittled myself in the presence of anyone the way I belittled myself in the presence of علي ابنو المديني بخاري he said this so علي ابنو المديني أبو داود stuck with him a lot ألمام أبي داود and the Imam of Bukhari you have something in common that the rest of the روات of the six books don't have and you know what that is only those two scholars ألمام البخاري ألمام أبي داود were only the مجتهد مطلق they were the only two who reached Daraja which was مجتهد مطلق in which they could do اجتهاد مطلق who were they? ألمام البخاري ألمام أبي داود وفقها مجتهدين they had their اجتهادات لكن all the other روات like مسلم and ترميدي النسائي and other than them they were not كانوا يتقيّدون على مذهب أهل الحديث they were restricted according to the مذهب أهل الحديث that's what they would follow meaning they would choose between the views of ألوزاعي وصفيان الثوري and the أئمة they would choose from them لكن ألمام أبي داود they wouldn't they would look at the نصوص the كتاب and the سنة themselves and they would extract the رولing themselves whether anyone agreed with them or not it wasn't they didn't care about that because they reached that level and that's what شيخ الإسلام ورحمة الله mentions in his مجموعة الفتاة and the time and we're going to carry on حيات ألمام أبي داود العلمية and we're also going to speak about the book and إن شاء الله we're going to go into the كتاب because there's no benefit brothers if you don't know the book and you don't understand the book and it's value and what this book is about there's no point you going into the book straight away to understand it anything which I have said سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشد ولا إله إلا الله أستغفرك أتوب إلي