These Sources Are Related to Imam Abu Dawud

1- *Al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil* by Al-Razi (Vol. 4, pp. 101–102)

2- *Tarikh Baghdad* by Ahmad ibn Ali Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi (Vol. 9, pp. 55–59)

3- *Tabaqat al-Hanabilah* by Ibn Abi Ya‘la (Vol. 1, pp. 159–162)

4- *Al-Muntazam* by Ibn al-Jawzi (Vol. 5, pp. 97–98)

5- *Wafayat al-A‘yan* by Ibn Khallikan (Vol. 2, pp. 404–405)

6- *Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’* by Al-Dhahabi (Vol. 13, pp. 203–221)

7- *Tadhkirat al-Huffaz* by Al-Dhahabi (Vol. 2, pp. 591–593)

8- *Tabaqat al-Shafi‘iyyah* by Al-Subki (Vol. 2, pp. 293–296)

9- *Al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah* by Al-Hafiz Ibn Kathir (Vol. 11, pp. 54–56)

10- *Tahdhib al-Kamal* by Al-Mizzi (Vol. 11, pp. 355–367)

11- *Tahdhib al-Tahdhib* by Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (Vol. 4, pp. 169–173)

12- *Tabaqat al-Huffaz* by Al-Suyuti (pp. 261–262)

13- *Muqaddimah of Sunan Abi Dawud* (Urdu), translated by Maulana Waheed al-Zaman Hyderabadi

14- *Muqaddimah to the Annotated Edition of Sharh Ibn Raslan on Sunan Abi Dawud*, by Dr. Suhail Hasan Abdul Ghaffar

15- *Risalah of Abu Dawud to the People of Makkah Describing His Sunan*, edited by Muhammad Lutfi al-Sabbagh

16- *Al-Hittah fi Dhikr al-Sihah al-Sittah* by Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan al-Qanouji

17- *Muqaddimah of Ghayat al-Maqsud* by Allama Shams al-Haqq al-Azimabadi

18- *Kashf al-Zunun* by Haji Khalifah Mulla Katib Chalabi

19- *Hadiyat al-‘Arifin* by Ismail Pasha

20- *Tarikh al-Turath al-‘Arabi* by Fuat Sezgin

21- *Imam Abu Dawud and His Book Al-Sunan* – taken from the introduction to the critical edition and verification of Sunan Abi Dawud by Dr. Abdul Aleem ibn Abdul Azim al-Bastawi (Translated by Maulana Rafiq Ahmad Salafi, Member, Majlis ‘Ilmi – Refer to Majallat al-Taw‘iyah, New Delhi) (Compiled by: Abdul Rahman ibn Abdul Jabbar al-Fariwai)