What sources does Qaf use?
Qaf answers from books in the Shamela library (Al-Maktaba Al-Shamela): more than 8,000 classical Islamic books by around 3,000 authors, about 8 million pages in total. The texts are provided by the developers behind Turath.io.
The library includes:
- Collections of Qur’an commentaries such as Tafsir al-Tabari, Tafsir Ibn Kathir and Tafsir al-Qurtubi.
- Hadith collections such as Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Muwatta Malik and the Sunan of Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah and al-Nasa’i.
- Collections of hadith commentaries such as Fath al-Bari by Ibn Hajar and al-Nawawi’s Sharh Sahih Muslim.
- Fiqh from the four Sunni schools such as Bada’i’ al-Sana’i’ (Hanafi), Mawahib al-Jalil (Maliki), al-Majmu’ (Shafi’i) and al-Mughni (Hanbali).
- Prophetic biography such as Ibn Hisham’s al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim’s Zad al-Ma’ad.
Browse the full list of books and authors.
When you open a Qur’an verse reference, its Arabic text comes from the Quran Foundation, and so does the English translation in the English interface.
We plan to add more sources over time, insha’Allah.