Search

How the search works, and how to ask it for less.

Writing a query

Search runs over the full text of every hadith — narrator and body — and ranks by relevance rather than by position in the collection.

Results stay on screen while you read one. There is nothing to go back to, because opening a result never takes you away from the list.

  • Quote a phrase to require it exactly: "seek help through patience"
  • Put a minus in front of a word to exclude it: patience -fasting
  • Write or between alternatives: patience or perseverance
  • Arabic queries search the Arabic text; English queries search the translation

Why the count sometimes shows a plus

A common word matches thousands of hadith and nobody reads to result four thousand, so counting stops at a hundred. A result count shown as 100+ means the ranking is complete but the tally was capped.