The Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad at fingertips

The Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad at your fingertips

Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (saws) in several languages1. Site Objective

2. About Hadith

3. About The Website

4. Fonts

5. Important Note

6. Sources, Numbering, and Grading

7. Miscellaneous

8. Reproduction, Copying, Scraping

1. Site Objective

The goal of this website is to provide the first online, authentic, searchable, and multilingual (English/Arabic at the individual hadith level) database of collections of hadith from our beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.

2. About Hadith

Hadith are the transmitted narrations concerning the speech, actions, appearance, and approvals of the Messenger of Allah, the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Hundreds of thousands of these narrations have been carefully preserved, studied, and passed down through the centuries, with many of them having undergone a strict procedure to verify an authentic chain of transmission up to the Prophet (pbuh). Hadith form the textual core of the Sunnah, an important source for the derivation of Islamic jurisprudence second only to the Qur'an. Hadith specialists have compiled hadith in various collections with differing criteria for inclusion, and not all hadith in all collections are necessarily authentic.

3. About the Website

The hadith collections currently available can be seen on the homepage. We are working on importing hadith from other major collections as well.

We support full search of both the English text of the hadith as well as the Arabic through a powerful search engine based on Lucene. To improve your search experience, browse through our Search Tips and Lucene's query syntax to create custom and accurate search queries.

4. Important Note

We feel compelled to make an observation here: this is not a fiqh or fatwa website. Hadith are made available on this website as a resource for research, personal study and understanding. The text of one or a few hadith alone are not taken as rulings by themselves; scholars have a sophisticated process using the principles of fiqh to come up with rulings. We do not advocate do-it-yourself fiqh using these hadith for those who are untrained in these principles. If you have a question on a specific ruling, please ask your local scholar.

4. Fonts

In order to best view the content on our website, we recommend downloading and installing the KFGQPC Uthman Taha Naskh font. Any Arabic font with a complete set of ligatures will also do. In particular, we use a Unicode character to represent sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam. If you do not see the character in the previous sentence, your font does not fully support Arabic. For Urdu we recommend any Nastaliq font (such as Fajer Noori).