Approved sources

A source is never trusted merely because it is well known. Every source goes through governance and is classified as approved, pending, or blocked. Search uses approved sources only.

Official website of Sheikh Abdulaziz Ibn Baz

Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Ibn Baz

Approved

Fatwas of Sheikh Ibn Baz published on his official website (Majmu' al-Fatawa, Nur 'ala al-Darb, al-Jami' al-Kabir, lessons).

documents: 2064 documents · 3432 indexed chunks

Approval basis: Named explicitly in the Tibyan project brief as a trusted source; official website of the scholar. Awaiting formal sign-off (reviewed_by) from the team's sharia-governance lead.

Usage note: Verbatim snapshots with attribution and a link to the original page, used for a non-commercial hackathon demo. Reuse terms must be confirmed with the site owner before any public launch.

Official website of Sheikh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymeen

Sheikh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymeen

Approved

Fatwas of Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen (Nur 'ala al-Darb, Liqa' al-Bab al-Maftuh, al-Liqa' al-Shahri, …) from the public HTML edition of his official website.

documents: 1028 documents · 2292 indexed chunks

Approval basis: Named explicitly in the Tibyan project brief as a trusted source; official website of the scholar. Awaiting formal sign-off from the sharia-governance lead.

Usage note: Verbatim snapshots of public pages (old.binothaimeen.net, the site's HTML edition) with attribution and a link to the original page, used for a non-commercial demo. The site's undocumented API is not used. Reuse terms must be confirmed with the foundation before any public launch.

Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths (HadeethEnc)

HadeethEnc.com — IslamHouse

Approved

Authentic Prophetic hadiths with their grade, sources, a simplified explanation and benefits, from the hadith encyclopedia of the IslamHouse encyclopedias (islamenc.com).

documents: 936 documents · 2403 indexed chunks

Approval basis: Listed on s.islamenc.com (Islamic encyclopedias and services in world languages). Approved by the project owner on 2026-10-05 as a reference source. Awaiting formal sign-off from the sharia-governance lead.

Usage note: Fetched through the site's public API and stored verbatim with a link to each hadith's page. Reuse terms must be confirmed with the publisher before any public launch.

Al-Tafsir al-Muyassar — King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex

King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex — Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

Fallback sourceApproved

A concise tafsir of every verse of the Qur'an, prepared by scholars under the King Fahd Complex, with the verse in the Mushaf script, from the Qur'an encyclopedia (quranenc.com). Searched live when needed.

documents: 8 documents · 8 indexed chunks

Approval basis: Published by the King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex, the Saudi government body for the Mushaf and its tafsir and translations. Approved by the project owner on 2026-10-06 as a reference source. Awaiting formal sign-off from the sharia-governance lead.

Usage note: Verses are fetched on demand through the public QuranEnc API and stored verbatim with a link to the verse's page. Reuse terms must be confirmed with the publisher before any public launch.

General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Ifta

General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Ifta — Saudi Arabia

Pending

The official fatwa authority. Pending technical review because its website was unreachable during setup.

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