Abū Da'wud Sulayman ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Ishaq al-Azdi al-Sijistānī Arabic ), anfi saninsa da Abu Dawud, mutumin Persiya ne, masanin hadisan annabi wanda yana na uku daga cikin shida "canonical" tarin hadisan da suka rubuta wanda ahlissunnah Sunni Musulmi suke darajawa, littafinsa itace Sunan Abu Dawud . Abū Dā'ūd an haife shi a Sijistān, [n 1] kuma ya mutu a cikin 889 a Basra, Iraq . Yawancin malamai sun yi imani da cewa an haife shi a Baluchistan, yanzu wani yanki na Iran da Pakistan, daga baya ya koma Khurāsān . Ya yi yawon shakatawa (hadisai) da yawa daga malamai a Iraki, Masar, Siriya, Hijaz, Tihamah, Nishapur, da Merv a tsakanin sauran wurare. Mayar da hankalinsa ga ḥadīth na shari'a ya taso ne daga wani fifiko a cikin zahiri (shari'a). Tarinsa ya hada da ḥadīth 4,800, aka zaɓa daga wasu 500,000. Hisansa, Abū Bakr 'Abd Allāh ibn Abī Dā'ūd (d. 928/929), sanannen ḥāfiẓ ne kuma marubucin Kitāb al-Masābīh, wanda sanannen ɗalibin shi ne Abū Abd Allāh al-Marzubānī .