A library of classical Islamic notes
Study notes on Qurʾān, Ḥadīth, Fiqh, ʿAqīdah, Arabic, and the foundational sciences. Kept in one place, indexed, and meant for slow reading.
A working summary in the sciences of ḥadīth — terminology, gradations of soundness, and the foundational distinctions of the muṣṭalaḥ tradition, with clarification of Ḥanafī-school usage.
An English study of Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabīḥī's monograph on one of the most discussed isnāds in ḥadīth literature: the chain of ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather.
A translation of al-Kawtharī's Bulūgh al-Amānī, a biography and defence of Imām Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, principal codifier of the Ḥanafī school.
Ten disciplines, drawn from the curriculum of the traditional Islamic seminary. Open any one to begin reading.
Recitation, memorisation, and the sciences of the Book.
Sūrah-by-sūrah exegesis of the Qurʾān.
Rules and refinements of Quranic recitation.
Narrations of the Prophet ﷺ — collected, explained, contextualised.
The methodology by which hadith are weighed and graded.
Practical jurisprudence rooted in the classical Ḥanafī school.
The legal theory beneath the rulings.
What every Muslim is required to believe, and why.
Naḥw, ṣarf, and the language of revelation.
The life of the Prophet ﷺ and the witnesses to it.
An English study of Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabīḥī's monograph on one of the most discussed isnāds in ḥadīth literature: the chain of ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather.
Three classical positions on whether reading ḥadīth to the shaykh (qirāʾah) is equal, superior, or inferior to hearing it directly (samāʿ).
Why classical muḥaddithīn distinguished between ḥaddathanā (direct samāʿ) and akhbaranā (qirāʾah on the shaykh), and how the convention varied by region.
Ibn Ḥajar's symbol system in Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb, indicating which of the six major ḥadīth collections (and related works) record each narrator.
How Ibn Ḥajar's Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb groups narrators of the six canonical ḥadīth collections into twelve generational classes (ṭabaqāt).
A bibliographical survey of the major classical works in al-jarḥ wa al-taʿdīl, from the earliest rijāl compilations to Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī.
Method
These notes began as my own, pages kept while studying classical texts with teachers and mentors over many years.
Every note is read, edited, and placed inside a coherent classical curriculum. The catalogue grows slowly because it is meant to last.
Citations refer back to the canonical works (Bukhārī, Muslim, al-Hidāyah, the Muwaṭṭaʾ) and to the Sunni tradition's commentary chain.
Long lines are short. Margins are wide. Arabic is set in Amiri. The interface gets out of the way so the words can be read.
