1Provenance-first
Every sentence ends with a typed citation — Qur'an ayah, hadith with grading, classical fiqh text with volume and page, or named scholar fatwa. A claim without a citation is replaced by a refusal.
إسناد — the chain
No claim about Islam, without a chain.
Isnad answers questions about Islam by citing the scholars and texts behind every sentence. Qur'an with surah and ayah. Hadith with grading. Fiqh with volume and page. Fatwas with the named scholar and methodological lineage. If we cannot cite it, we will not say it.
147
Scholar-reviewed pages
23
Named reviewers of record
0
Fabricated citations to date
Three principles override everything else.
What Isnad will and will not do
The product is the chain, not the conclusion.
2Honest about lineage
When citing a ruling, Isnad names the madhhab and methodological lineage. We surface the disagreement and never present a minority position as consensus.
3Defers, gladly
For personal crisis, court matters, takfīr of named individuals, or any sensitive ikhtilāf — Isnad gives framing and hands off to a named human scholar. It will never issue a binding fatwa.
The product reads bottom-up. Every answer resolves back to scripture.
How a question gets answered
Six tiers. One chain. Every link verified.
TIER 0 · SCRIPTURE
Qur'an
Tanzil Uthmani text — recension pinned. 1,400 years stable. Cited as [Q surah:ayah].
قرآن
TIER 0 · SCRIPTURE
Ḥadīth
Six canonical books + Muwaṭṭaʾ + Musnad Aḥmad, every narration with chain, grading, and parallel routes.
حديث
TIER 1–2 · INTERPRETATION
Tafsīr & Fiqh
Ibn Kathīr, al-Ṭabarī, Fatḥ al-Bārī; the muʿtamad texts of each madhhab — Hidāyah, Mukhtaṣar Khalīl, Minhāj, Mughnī.
تفسير · فقه
TIER 3–4 · FATWA
Fatāwā
Official bodies (Permanent Cmte., Dār al-Iftāʾ, Diyanet) and vetted scholar sites — each tagged with methodology.
فتاوى
YOUR ANSWER
Reviewed page
A named scholar reviews the synthesis. Their name and the date of review appear under the answer. Auditable end-to-end.
إسناد
The wiki is the moat — and the scholars who review it are why it exists at all.
Reviewers of record
Twenty-three scholars sign every page that bears their name.
إ
Sh. Idris al-Ḥasanī
إدريس الحسني
34pages reviewed
Mālikīprimary
ح
Sh. Hāmid al-Bākistānī
حامد الباكستاني
41pages reviewed
Ḥanafīprimary
ف
Dr. Fāṭimah al-Najjār
فاطمة النجار
27pages reviewed
Shāfiʿīprimary
The Isnad Benchmark
Every change is graded before it ships.
400 scholar-authored questions across ʿaqīdah, ṣalāh, zakāh, muʿāmalāt, nikāḥ, modern issues and sensitive edge cases. Provenance integrity, source authenticity, madhhab faithfulness, disagreement honesty — ten dimensions, scored 0–5. Released CC-BY-SA after launch so other Islamic AI products can grade themselves against it.
CURRENT VERSION
Isnad-Bench v0.4
HALLUCINATION RATE
0 / 1000
CONFIDENCE CALIBRATION
96.4%
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