Shia Hadith Database — Search 32,000+ Narrations of the Ahlul Bayt in Arabic and English
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A searchable database of Shia hadith — 32,519 narrations of the Prophet and the Ahlul Bayt, in the original Arabic with English translation, drawn from Al-Kafi, Nahj al-Balagha, Man La Yahduruh al-Faqih and other primary collections. Every narration keeps its chain of transmission and links to similar narrations and the Qur'anic verses it draws on.
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Al-Kāfi
14,242 narrations
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
6,379 narrations
Nahj al-Balāgha
2,260 narrations
Al-Amālī
1,469 narrations
Al-Khiṣāl
1,281 narrations
Kitāb al-Ghayba
1,241 narrations
Thawāb al-Aʿmāl wa ʿiqāb al-Aʿmāl
1,106 narrations
ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā
951 narrations
Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār
829 narrations
Kāmil al-Ziyārāt
750 narrations
Al-Tawḥīd
574 narrations
Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara
555 narrations
Kitāb al-Zuhd
290 narrations
Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ
226 narrations
Kitāb al-Muʾmin
201 narrations
Ṣifāt al-Shīʿa
71 narrations
Risālat al-Ḥuqūq
49 narrations
Faḍaʾil al-Shīʿa
45 narrations
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The Hadith Database Project (HDP) team at the Academy for Learning Islam (A.L.I.) has collected
Shi`i Islamic Hadith from available translations online and in print from renown primary sources.
The objective of the HDP is to provide easy to search Shi'i Islamic Hadith online. A.L.I. is not
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