About & Credits
A research tool for the Qur’an, Hadith and Islamic history — built for anyone from a first-time reader to a PhD researcher, on the premise that every claim here should be attributed and checkable.
Our mission
This app exists to make primary Islamic texts — the Qur’an with translation and tafseer, the hadith corpus with grading and chains of narration, and the people (Companions, narrators, scholars) behind them — searchable, cross-referenced, and honestly sourced in one place. We deliberately favour showing our sources and our gaps over presenting a polished but unverifiable surface: a layman should be able to read comfortably, and a researcher should be able to audit every claim back to where it came from.
Sources & attribution
Qur’an translation & tafseer
- Tafheem-ul-Quran — Syed Abul Ala Maududi
Hadith text
Imported from the fawazahmed0/hadith-api dataset (an open, widely-used aggregation of the major hadith collections). Bulk text is trusted from the source; grading and isnad (chain of narration) claims are separately reviewed by a human moderator before being marked approved — see Methodology below.
Narrator & scholar biographies
Compiled from classical rijal (narrator-biography) literature and secondary Urdu/English biographical references, added and cross-checked narrator by narrator rather than bulk-imported. We are working on naming each specific source inline on every biography page; until then, treat unsourced biographical details as provisional.
Methodology & transparency
Content moves through a pending → approved review workflow. Newly imported or submitted material (hadiths, narrator links, articles, grading notes) starts as pending and is not treated as verified until a moderator or scholar reviews it. Where a grading or reliability judgement has a stated rationale, we show it next to the grade rather than just the label.
Known gap: isnad (chain of narration) completeness
For most of the corpus (in particular the ~7,500 hadiths of Sahih al-Bukhari), only the terminal narrator — the Companion or Successor closest to the reported saying — has been systematically linked so far. Full multi-link chains exist only where they have been added and checked individually. Where a chain is incomplete, the reading view says so plainly rather than implying a fuller chain than what is actually recorded. Closing this gap across the full corpus is an ongoing effort, not a finished one.
Contributors
This project is built and reviewed by a small group of contributors and moderators. A fuller contributors list will appear here as the project grows. If you find an error or can help verify a source, please use the moderation/edit tools available on the relevant page, or reach out via Developers.