- Please tell us about yourself (include an email address):
My name is Imran, an independent developer from the Netherlands building Istaqim, a new Islamic companion app for iOS and Android. Email: masghar7@gmail.com
- Your purpose in using this API:
Istaqim ("be steadfast") helps Muslims build consistency in their daily prayers: prayer tracking, a step-by-step prayer guide for beginners and new Muslims, daily verses, and an AI companion that answers questions grounded exclusively in authentic, verified sources. We would like to use Sahih al-Bukhari (Arabic + the English translation by Dr. M. Muhsin Khan) as the hadith corpus for this companion. Core principle of the app: the AI only answers from the verified source library and every hadith reference is displayed with a visible citation card (collection + number, e.g. "Sahih al-Bukhari 6464"); if an answer is not in the sources, the app says so honestly — nothing is ever generated without attribution. The app is privacy-first, contains no ads, and never monetizes user data. Could you also confirm that this use of the hadith data — retrieval-grounded answers with per-hadith citations in a mobile app — is acceptable to you? Happy to provide more detail or adjust attribution to your preference.
An offline dump is actually the better fit for our use case, if available: we build a prebuilt embedded search index over the corpus at deploy time (server-side), so a snapshot we can index once — with periodic refreshes — serves us better than per-request API calls. Programmatic API access would work as an alternative if a dump is not offered.
- What are the languages in which would you like hadith data?
English and Arabic.
- What programming language will your API client be in?
TypeScript (Node.js), running server-side only — the data is never queried directly from user devices.
My name is Imran, an independent developer from the Netherlands building Istaqim, a new Islamic companion app for iOS and Android. Email: masghar7@gmail.com
Istaqim ("be steadfast") helps Muslims build consistency in their daily prayers: prayer tracking, a step-by-step prayer guide for beginners and new Muslims, daily verses, and an AI companion that answers questions grounded exclusively in authentic, verified sources. We would like to use Sahih al-Bukhari (Arabic + the English translation by Dr. M. Muhsin Khan) as the hadith corpus for this companion. Core principle of the app: the AI only answers from the verified source library and every hadith reference is displayed with a visible citation card (collection + number, e.g. "Sahih al-Bukhari 6464"); if an answer is not in the sources, the app says so honestly — nothing is ever generated without attribution. The app is privacy-first, contains no ads, and never monetizes user data. Could you also confirm that this use of the hadith data — retrieval-grounded answers with per-hadith citations in a mobile app — is acceptable to you? Happy to provide more detail or adjust attribution to your preference.
API rate limits:
Is your use case better served by having an offline dump of hadith data or programmatic API access?
An offline dump is actually the better fit for our use case, if available: we build a prebuilt embedded search index over the corpus at deploy time (server-side), so a snapshot we can index once — with periodic refreshes — serves us better than per-request API calls. Programmatic API access would work as an alternative if a dump is not offered.
English and Arabic.
TypeScript (Node.js), running server-side only — the data is never queried directly from user devices.