Sources and how we verify Where every verse, count and date on this site comes from
Our rule for religious content
Qur’an text, hadith, rulings and dates on this site come from data we can trace, never from memory. Verse text and translations are loaded from the same files the Niyat app uses rather than typed, and the topic collections check the text on each page byte for byte against those files.
A hadith is published only after its wording, collection, number and grading have been checked against the collection itself on sunnah.com. If we cannot check a hadith, we leave it out.
Pages explain what a verse says and where it sits. They do not issue rulings. Where schools of fiqh differ, we say so rather than pick one.
The Qur’an
Arabic text: the Uthmani script of the Madinah Mushaf, with page and juz numbers from the Quran Foundation (Quran.com) API.
English translation: Saheeh International. Words in square brackets are added by the translators for clarity.
Word by word: the word-by-word glosses and transliteration from the Quran.com API.
Roots, lemmas and word counts: the Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), in the revised edition at quran-morphology, used under the GNU GPL. Each count page lists the exact words counted and every verse, so a number can always be checked. See root words and word counts.
Recitation: Mishary Rashid al-Afasy, served from verses.quran.com.
Prayer times and qibla
Prayer times are calculated in your browser with the open-source Adhan library, using the standard calculation methods (such as Muslim World League, ISNA, Umm al-Qura and Egyptian) and both Asr conventions. Methods differ by a few minutes, so follow the method your mosque or national authority uses.
Qibla directions are great-circle bearings to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E).
Islamic dates
Hijri dates come from one shared dataset used by the website and both apps: the Umm al-Qura calendar for the start of each month, and fixed rules for each event. Where moon sighting decides a date, such as the start of Ramadan or Eid, pages give both possible days or say the date may move by a day.
Mosques
Mosque names, locations and addresses come from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. A mosque page shows calculated prayer times for its location, and says clearly when its congregation (jamaat) times have not been verified yet.
Duas
Each dua shows its source: a verse of the Qur’an, or a hadith with its collection and number. Qur’anic duas use the same verified verse files as the rest of the site.
Niyat’s AI answers
In the app, AI answers are grounded in a fixed library of Islamic texts and show their sources inline. About Niyat explains how that works. Treat them as a way to find and check sources, not as a fatwa.
Found a mistake?
Email hello@niyatapp.com with the page and what is wrong. Religious corrections are checked against the source before the page changes.