What are the news regarding the tracing of the original Sunan of Abu Dawud?
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The questioner : Your Eminence! A great gathering, O Shaykh, with great eagerness for the tracing of the original *Sunan of Abu Dawud*. What are the news?
The Shaykh : We ask Allah to grant us success in completing this project. I have reached about three-quarters of it, and one-quarter remains. You can observe this from *Sahih Abu Dawud*, which is the abridged version. I had noted in the introduction that I followed a plan in verifying the *Sunan of Abu Dawud* that differed from my plan in tracing the three previous Sunans. This is because for every hadith there that I verify or grade as good, I mention some of the sources that detailed the discussion regarding the authenticity or goodness of this hadith, as well as the weak ones.
But in *Sahih Abu Dawud*, I said: You will not see anything other than the ruling on the hadith as authentic or good, because this summary was taken from *Sahih Abu Dawud*, which I started about forty years ago. Once I reach the end of what I have reached in *Sahih Abu Dawud*, I will return to the system I followed in the first three Sunans. That is, I will begin by saying: Authentic, and the source is such-and-such. Because I have not yet reached this point in my book *Sahih Abu Dawud*, I ask Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, to grant me success in completing it. May it be recorded with your righteous prayers, so that our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, may bless us in our age and in our time as well, so that I can present it complete for printing, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : We ask Allah to grant us success in completing this project. I have reached about three-quarters of it, and one-quarter remains. You can observe this from *Sahih Abu Dawud*, which is the abridged version. I had noted in the introduction that I followed a plan in verifying the *Sunan of Abu Dawud* that differed from my plan in tracing the three previous Sunans. This is because for every hadith there that I verify or grade as good, I mention some of the sources that detailed the discussion regarding the authenticity or goodness of this hadith, as well as the weak ones.
But in *Sahih Abu Dawud*, I said: You will not see anything other than the ruling on the hadith as authentic or good, because this summary was taken from *Sahih Abu Dawud*, which I started about forty years ago. Once I reach the end of what I have reached in *Sahih Abu Dawud*, I will return to the system I followed in the first three Sunans. That is, I will begin by saying: Authentic, and the source is such-and-such. Because I have not yet reached this point in my book *Sahih Abu Dawud*, I ask Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, to grant me success in completing it. May it be recorded with your righteous prayers, so that our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, may bless us in our age and in our time as well, so that I can present it complete for printing, if Allah wills.