There is no reason to doubt that the medieval oud was fretted; the evidence on this is abundant and explicit. I think that these two older threads, to
which I contributed at the time, would answer your questions about fretted ouds and the abandonment of frets (which took place beginning in the 16th
century):
http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=2961#pid193...
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