Prominent Students of Imam Abu Dawood and Narrators of His Works

Many renowned scholars of Hadith had the honor of being students of Imam Abu Dawood. Among the narrators of his book *Sunan* are the following:

• ➊ Abu Amr Ahmad bin Ali bin Hasan al-Basri
• ➋ Abu Ali Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Amr al-Lu'lu'i (d. 333 AH)
• ➌ Abu al-Tayyib Ahmad bin Ibrahim al-Ishnani al-Baghdadi
• ➍ Abu Sa’id Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’id bin Ziyad al-A’rabi (d. 340 AH)
• ➎ Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Abdul Razzaq bin Dasa (d. 346 AH)
• ➏ Abu al-Hasan Ali bin al-Hasan bin al-Abd al-Ansari (d. 328 AH)
• ➐ Abu Isa Ishaq bin Musa bin Sa’id al-Ramli al-Warraq (d. 320 AH)
• ➑ Abu Usamah Muhammad bin Abdul Malik bin Yazid al-Rawwas
• ➒ Abu Salim Muhammad bin Sa’id al-Jaludi

Among the narrators of his other books are:

• ➊ Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Basri
• ➋ Abu Bakr Ahmad bin Sulayman al-Najjad
• ➌ Ismail bin Muhammad al-Saffar
• ➍ Abu Ubayd Muhammad bin Ali al-Ajuri

Among other well-known scholars who were also his students are:

• ➊ His son, Abu Bakr
• ➋ Abu Awanah Ya’qub bin Ishaq al-Isfara’ini
• ➌ Harb bin Isma’il al-Kirmani
• ➍ Zakariya al-Saji
• ➎ Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Khallal
• ➏ Ahmad bin Yasin al-Harawi and others

From among the authors of the *Sihah Sittah* (The Six Authentic Books of Hadith):

• ➊ Imam Tirmidhi
• ➋ Imam Nasa’i

Both Imam Tirmidhi and Imam Nasa’i were students of Imam Abu Dawood. His own teacher, Imam Ahmad, also narrated the Hadith of ‘Atirah from him.