بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
سند
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A message arrives in the family group. "The Prophet ﷺ said…", and no source. You do not know. The person who sent it does not know either. It is forwarded anyway, in good faith.
Check it before you forward it.
Paste a claim. Watch the chain of transmission assemble. Read the evidence, and decide for yourself.
Powered by Eve-Theology™ F5/reasoner. Sanad reports what the sources say. It does not issue rulings.
Four steps, and you never have to take our word for it
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Step one · Send it
Paste the text, upload the screenshot, drop the link, or attach the document. No account is required to check a claim, and nothing is kept unless you ask for it to be kept.
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Step two · Watch it work
Not a loading spinner. You watch Sanad read the claim, search the sources, and build the chain of transmission in front of you — one narrator at a time, showing where each link came from and which one the grade turns on. When a step finds nothing, it says so rather than skipping quietly past.
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Step three · See the evidence first
The chain, the wording, the sources — before the conclusion. This is deliberate. You should be able to see the basis of an answer before anyone tells you the answer.
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Step four · Decide, and answer back
Open the full chain and read every narrator yourself. Save the case. Or send a card straight back into the conversation it came from — carrying the evidence, not just a verdict, so the next person can look too.
Claims do not arrive tidily
Typed or pasted text
At launchA claim someone sent you, in Arabic or English.
Screenshots and images
At launchThe quote card from Instagram, the forwarded image, the photograph of a page.
A link
At launchAn article, a blog post, a published fatwā. Sanad retrieves the page and checks every claim on it.
A document
At launchA khutbah draft, a chapter, a lesson plan. PDF or word-processed.
Voice notes
After launchThe audio message forwarded to your family group.
Video and reels
After launchAudio is transcribed and the claim is located at a timestamp.
Six answers, and two of them are forms of “we cannot say”
A system that always sounds certain is not a verification system. Sanad returns one of exactly six outcomes, and the distinctions between them are the product.
Verified
Found in the corpus, chain resolved, graded, and the source named in your text is correct.
Verified but misattributed
The report is sound. The collection it was credited to is not the one it comes from. Sanad names the right one.
Weak
Found and graded ḍaʿīf or worse, with the weakest link in the chain identified by name.
Fabricated
Present in the fabrication anthologies with a named classical verdict against it.
Not found in the indexed corpus
Sanad searched and did not find it. This is NOT the same as fabricated — a great many sound reports live in works no index contains. Sanad will never blur these two.
Unresolved
The evidence cannot carry a verdict. Sanad says so and stops, rather than guessing — and shows what it did find, and what would settle the question.
A report can be perfectly authentic and still be used wrongly
Outright fabrication is the easy case. Most of what misleads people is a real report, handled carelessly or selectively. Sanad checks for each of these by name.
Misattribution
At launchThe right text credited to the wrong collection.
Grade inflation
At launchA weak report presented as authentic.
Partial quotation
At launchThe dropped clause that reverses the meaning. Sanad shows which words are attested and which are not.
Added wording
At launchA sound report with a fabricated addition welded on.
Translation drift
At launchAn English rendering that carries what the Arabic does not. The original is shown beside it.
Suppressed source criticism
At launchQuoting from a compiler who himself recorded that the chain is not established.
Missing context
After launchA report about a specific occasion used as a general rule, where the occasion changes the meaning.
Over-generalisation
After launchA narrow report stretched into a universal claim.
Conflation
After launchTwo separate reports merged into one that exists nowhere.
Abrogation blindness
Under reviewRelying on a report the tradition holds to be superseded.
The complete capability list
This list is the specification. Every capability carries a status. If something is not on this list, it is not committed — and nothing here is described as available, because Sanad has not shipped.
Checking a claim
Locate a claim in the corpus
At launchMatched on meaning, not only on exact wording, so paraphrase and loose translation are still found.
Walk the chain of transmission
At launchNarrator by narrator, from the collector back toward the source, with each link identified.
Report the classical grade
At launchUsing the canonical grade vocabulary, with the narrator and the rule that produced it named.
Identify the weakest link
At launchWhich narrator in the chain the grade actually turns on.
Check corroboration
At launchWhether independent chains support the report, and whether that support is genuinely independent.
Check the Qurʾān
At launchVerify a quoted āyah, its reference, and its rendering.
Say honestly when it does not know
At launchSix distinct outcomes, of which two are forms of "we cannot answer this".
Checking an argument
Omission analysis
At launchWhat the sources hold on a subject, set beside what a text chose to cite — and which of the uncited reports point a different way.
School-position disclosure
At launchIdentify which school a position follows and where the others differ. Sanad names the position; it does not score it.
Minority-position flag
After launchWhen a position held by few is presented as the mainstream one.
Consensus claims
After launchWhether "the scholars agree" survives checking against documented disagreement.
Reasoning review
After launchWhether an argument rests on authentic sources, engages the counter-evidence, states its method, and reaches a conclusion its premises support. Sanad reviews the reasoning; it does not substitute a ruling of its own.
Undisclosed interest
Under reviewWhether a body certifying a financial product has a disclosed relationship with the issuer.
Seeing the evidence
Live reasoning
At launchYou watch Sanad read, search, and build the chain. Not a progress bar — the actual work, as it happens.
Evidence before verdict
At launchThe chain and the sources come first. The conclusion arrives last, deliberately.
The chain view
At launchScroll back through the centuries. Tap any narrator for their dates, their teachers and students, and what the critics said about them.
The text comparison
At launchThe claim as it was sent to you, aligned against the claim as it is actually attested, with every difference marked.
Corroboration view
At launchIndependent chains shown together, so a single thin thread is visibly different from a well-attested report.
Generational timeline
After launchThe chain laid against real centuries, so a gap in transmission appears as a gap in time.
Transmission map
After launchThe route a report travelled between cities and generations.
Grade provenance
After launchWhich rule fired, which narrator capped the grade, and why.
Doing something with the answer
Share a card
At launchA shareable summary carrying the evidence, not merely a verdict, sized for the chat it came from.
A permanent case link
At launchEvery check has an address you can send, cite, or return to.
Re-verification
At launchWhen the corpus is updated, saved cases are re-checked and anything whose verdict changed is flagged.
Dispute a verdict
At launchContest any result. The challenge is published on the case itself, so the next reader sees it is contested. Sanad publishes disputes; it does not adjudicate them.
Report an error
At launchOne tap from every result. Corrections are applied to the corpus and grading rules, and anyone whose saved case changes is told.
Saved history
At launchOff by default. Kept only if you choose to keep it.
Watch a source
After launchFollow an account or a publication and be told when a claim worth checking appears.
Trending claims
After launchWhat is circulating now, already checked.
Reports you can keep
Claim Verification Report
At launchOne claim, with its chain, grade, and sources. The document you file or forward.
Document Audit
At launchA whole khutbah, article or chapter, every claim tabulated and ranked by risk.
Chain Dossier
At launchThe full apparatus, narrator by narrator, for scholarly use.
Omission Analysis
At launchCited against available, on a given subject.
Evidence Snapshot
At launchExactly what was retrieved from a link, with a hash and a timestamp — because pages get edited after they are questioned.
Corrections Notice
At launchWhen a verdict changes, a document you can circulate to correct a record you already acted on.
Certificate of Review
Under reviewA record that a body of work was checked, on a date, against a stated corpus version. It certifies that a check was run and what it found. It is not a religious endorsement and does not approve content.
Checking a claim will be free
Free
Check a claim. Watch the chain assemble. Read every narrator. Share the card. No account, and no history kept unless you ask for it.
Subscription
Whole documents and links. Saved history and re-verification. Printable reports. Deeper verification for questions that need it. Monitoring a source over time.
Arabic and English at launch · Built for the phone · No app to install
What Sanad is not
- It does not issue rulings, and it does not tell you what is permitted or forbidden.
- It does not decide who is or is not a scholar.
- It does not score a position for belonging to one school rather than another. It names the position and shows where the schools differ.
- It does not treat "not found" as "false". Absence from an index is absence from an index.
- It is not a scholar, and it is not a replacement for one.
Sanad shows you the evidence and lets you look. Where a question needs a scholar, it will tell you so and say why — it will not answer in one’s place.
“O you who believe, if a corrupt person brings you news, verify it.”
al-Ḥujurāt 49:6
The corpus underneath
Sanad reads the Islamic Primary Source Corpus — 617,912 hadith drawn from 123 classical works, where every grade traces back to a named narrator and a documented rule rather than to an opinion.
The corpus is applied data engineering grounded in classical rijāl methodology. It is not a substitute for scholarship, its accuracy is measured rather than asserted, and its provenance is published in full.
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