Abstract:

The Sunan of Abu Dawood is a hadith book written in the third century known as the golden age of the hadith books and it contains jurisprudence hadiths which faqihs used as evidence and it has been accepted as the third book of Kutub al-Sittah by many scholars. In his letter that he wrote to the Meccans, Abu Dawood made explanations about the authenticity of the hadiths that he wrote in the Sunan. After he expressed in this letter that he wrote the most authentic hadiths that he knew in every subject of Sunan, he expressed that he pointed out very weak hadiths that he wrote in the Sunan and he expressed that the hadiths that he didn't talk about them, that is, he didn't make any statement about them -that are constituting most of four thousand eight hundred hadiths in the Sunan- are suitable. From his statements and real situtation of the Sunan, the hadith scholars who wrote books in the field of hadith methodology and the other fields -from Khattabi vho the first commentator of the Sunan to the present day- put forward different opinions about the authenticity of hadiths that Abu Dawud didn't talk about them, that is, about whether all of them are authentic-hasan or not, in other words whether there were weak and highest weak hadiths in their or not. In this article, to contribute to benefit correctly from hadiths that were not talked about them in the Sunan, we will try to mention the opinions that had been put forward in this issue and to express the opinion seeming the most accurate of them.

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