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Hadith

الحديث الشريف

The sayings and practice of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, as recorded by the great compilers. Every collection is here in full — the original Arabic alongside an English translation, with the authentication grade shown wherever the scholars recorded one.

50,343 hadiths across 11 collections

Type a collection, a book of hadith, or a subject.

The six canonical collections

The Kutub as-Sittah — the six classical hadith books of the Sunni tradition, offered here for reference. Al-Kafi, the first of the Shia's own Four Books, is on this site too (see below); the other three (al-Faqih, at-Tahdhib, al-Istibsar) are not yet, for lack of a freely licensed source. Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim are the two most rigorously authenticated; the four Sunan arrange the hadiths by chapters of law and record a grading for each.

Earlier and shorter collections

The Muwatta of Imam Malik predates all six and pairs hadith with the settled practice of Madinah. The Forty Hadith collections are short by design — gathered to be memorised, and traditionally the first hadiths a student learns.

Shia collections

Al-Kafi of ash-Shaykh al-Kulayni — the first of the Four Books (al-Kutub al-Arba‘a) of the Ithna-ashari tradition — is published in full, all eight volumes, with Muhammad Sarwar's translation and al-Majlisi's grading of each chain. The other three Books, Nahj al-Balagha and as-Sahifa as-Sajjadiyya are not yet online here: no freely licensed digital edition of them has been found. They will be added the day a source can be cited, the same way every text on this site is.

Hadith

About the hadith collections

A hadith is a recorded report of what the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said, did, or approved of. Together the hadiths make up the Sunnah, the second source of Islamic guidance after the Quran.

Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim are held to be the most rigorously authenticated, and are together called the Sahihayn. They form the first two of the six canonical collections, the Kutub as-Sittah.

They are verdicts on a hadith's chain of narration. Sahih means authentic, Hasan means sound but with a slightly weaker chain, and Da'if means weak. Bukhari and Muslim admitted only hadiths meeting their own conditions, so their collections carry no per-hadith grading; the four Sunan do.

The Arabic text, the English translations and the gradings come from the open hadith-api dataset, and the book titles are cross-checked against a second independent dataset before publishing. Nothing is edited or abridged.

Yes — every collection is free to read in full, with no ads, no account and no paywall. Ummi is built purely as Sadaqah Jariyah.

Sunni collections: text from the open hadith-api dataset. Al-Kafi: Arabic text, Muhammad Sarwar's translation and gradings from Thaqalayn.net via the Thaqalayn API. Hadith numbering follows those editions and can differ from a printed copy — check the Arabic against a trusted edition before relying on a reference.