Search Tips

Exact phrases

Wrap words in double quotes to match them together, in order.

"pledge of allegiance"

Without quotes the words are matched separately and a narration containing only one of them can still rank.

Filter by field

Narrow to part of the corpus with field:"value". Quotes are required.

book:"Al-Kāfi"
chapter:"The meaning of the intellect"

Available fields: book, volume, part, section, chapter, number, source, topic_tags.

Combine the two

A field filter and search terms together search only inside that scope.

book:"Al-Kāfi" prayer intention

A filter on its own, with no search terms, is a request to browse: it opens the book, volume, part or chapter page instead of returning results.

Arabic and English

Search in either language, and type it however is easiest.

الصوم جنة and الصَّوْمُ جُنَّةٌ — the same results
Muhammad and Muḥammad — the same results

Vowel marks are ignored, so a bare Arabic word finds the fully vowelled text stored here. Transliteration is folded the same way: Ali finds ʿAlī and hadith finds ḥadīth. English plurals are matched with their singular, so prayers finds narrations that say prayer.

Precise or flexible

The dropdown beside the search button chooses how strictly your words are read.

Flexible (the default) forgives a single mistyped letter and does not require every word, which is what you want when you are unsure of a spelling. Precise requires every word exactly as typed, which is how you check whether a particular wording occurs at all.

Topic tags

Results carry tag pills, and the bar above them lists the tags present in the current results with a count against each.

Clicking one filters what you already have rather than starting a new search, which is the quickest way to cut a broad query down to a subject.