How we source

The Quran

The Arabic text comes from the Tanzil Project (CC BY 3.0) and is reproduced exactly, never typed by hand. A script checks every verse on the site against the Tanzil copy before a page can be built.

The English meaning is adapted from Marmaduke Pickthall's translation (1930), which is in the public domain. We modernise its old wording and check each verse we use against modern translations. Where a phrase is open to more than one reading, we keep Pickthall's and note the difference.

Hadith

Every hadith shows its collection and number, and links to the collection so you can read the full narration. We tell the narration in our own words, written from the stored Arabic and English text of the source, and never from memory. Any direct quote from a published translation is short and credited.

Each hadith carries a grade:

• Authentic: graded sahih or hasan.
• Weak: graded da'if. We say so and do not build a practice on it.
• Fabricated: graded mawdu'. Shown only to say it is not a saying of the Prophet, peace be upon him.
• Graded differently: scholars disagree. You can open the page's sources to see each grading and who made it.
• Weak to fabricated (or weak to no basis): no grader accepts it, but they differ on how weak it is. We give the range rather than pick the harshest grade, and the sources list shows who graded it which way.

The scholars behind each grading are named in the page's list of sources.

The four schools

Where the Hanafi, Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools differ, each position is cited to a named work of that school, such as al-Marghinani's al-Hidaya for the Hanafis or al-Nawawi's Minhaj al-Talibin for the Shafi'is. All four are shown with equal weight.

How we use AI tools

We use AI tools to help draft and organise pages. They never decide what a page says about the deen: every claim is checked against the source it cites, every Quran verse against the Tanzil text, and every page is read and approved by the editor before it goes live.

Checking

Every page shows the date it was last checked. Before a page goes live, its references are opened at the source and the page is approved by the editor. If something changes, or someone points out an error, we follow the corrections process on our contact page.