Our Sources and Method
143 adhkar across 8 sections and 38 dua pages — each with its source.
Where the texts come from
The adhkar and duas published here are taken from: the Qur'an, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, Jami' at-Tirmidhi, Sunan an-Nasa'i, Sunan Ibn Majah, Muwatta Malik, Musnad Ahmad and Sahih Ibn Hibban — together with Hisn al-Muslim by Shaykh Sa'id ibn 'Ali al-Qahtani as an index back to those sources, not as a source copied from directly.
English meanings of Qur'anic verses follow Saheeh International.
Every published dhikr carries its explicit reference beside it — the book and the hadith number where we have verified it, the book and the narrator where we have not. A wrong number is worse than a missing one.
Every text on the dua pages carries its grading: Qur'an, sahih or hasan. Anything weak or baseless is never published as something to say — it appears only where the point is to warn about it.
What we do not publish
We do not publish a text whose authenticity we could not verify, however widely it circulates. Much of what passes for 'duas' today is copied images with no source, some of it attributed to the Prophet ﷺ and fabricated.
Where an unsound supplication has become famous enough that people search for it by name, we say so plainly on its page rather than staying silent — silence leaves the reader to find it elsewhere with no warning, which is worse.
We do not present a sharply disputed juristic position as though it were settled; we state the disagreement briefly and say which view we follow and why.
These are not only promises: the build checks itself. It refuses any text without a source, and any text graded weak or baseless that has been placed among the things to say. If either fails, the site does not build.
Prayer times
Times are computed astronomically with the open-source adhan library, using the method officially adopted in the country of the location — the Egyptian General Authority in Egypt, Umm al-Qura in Saudi Arabia, Karachi in Pakistan — rather than one method applied worldwide.
Asr follows the majority position (one shadow length). Those following the Hanafi position will find their Asr later than what we show.
If what we show disagrees with your mosque's adhan, follow the mosque. We are a calculation aid, not a religious authority.
Corrections
If you find an error in a text, an attribution or a translation, write to us and we will review and correct it. These texts are the same ones the Khalily app shows, so a correction applies to both.
