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==Sunan Abu Dawud==

The author of ''Sunan Abi Dawud'' is Sulayman b. Ash'ath, known as [[Abu Dawud al-Sijistani]] (d. 272/885). The book contains 5,274 hadiths of 40 jurisprudential books. Topics such as [[al-Mahdi]], [[al-Malahim]] and the jurisprudential issue of breastfeeding an adult are discussed in this book. Many hadiths which are cited in Abu Dawud's book, are rejected or called into question by other Sunni scholars. Some prominent Sunni scholars believe that there are many unreliable, and even fabricated, hadiths in ''Sunan Abi Dawud''. In his book, ''al-Mawdu'at'' (fabricated hadiths), in Jawzi has mentioned some fabricated hadiths in this book. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani wrote a book called ''Da'if Sunan Abi Dawud'' (unreliable hadiths in ''Sunan Abi Dawud''). He holds that there are over 800 unreliable hadiths in this book. Moreover, he believes that there are about 50 “munkar” or denounced hadiths (hadiths whose contents are not accepted by the majority of Muslims) and about 50 “shadhdh” or irregular hadiths (ones which are transmitted by a reliable person but goes against another hadith which is transmitted by a more reliable person).