Islamic scholarship

A research workspace built around the way the discipline cites.

For students and scholars working with Quran, Hadith, Tafsir, Fiqh, and the broader classical corpus. Cognoir parses these texts by their actual structure — surah and ayah, hadith number and isnād, volume and page — and cites them the way they have been cited for centuries.

Hadith with isnād intact.

When you upload a Hadith collection — Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, the Sunan literature, the Musnad collections — the citations Cognoir produces include the collection, book, hadith number, and the chain of narration where the source document provides it. We do not strip the isnād; we do not paraphrase it; we do not reorder it.

Authenticity gradings (sahih, da’if, hasan, mawdu’) are preserved as the source presents them. Cognoir does not invent gradings. If the source you uploaded does not classify a particular hadith, the citation reflects that — it does not silently mark it as authentic to look tidy.

Quran by surah and ayah.

Quranic citations resolve to the surah name + ayah number in the form your tradition uses. When the source you uploaded is a translation, the citation names the translator (Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, Saheeh International, Mufti Taqi Usmani — whichever the source is). When the source is the Arabic, the citation is to the Arabic.

Translation-based answers are never silently presented as Arabic. The citation tells the reader which source language the answer rests on so they can verify the inference against the original where it matters.

Tafsir and classical texts, cited like a scholar would.

Author, work, volume, and page. Hijri and Gregorian dating preserved as the source presents them. When the source is a multi-volume work — Tafsir al-Tabari, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, al-Mughni — the volume number is part of the citation. When the source is paginated, the page number is part of the citation. The reader can find the passage in their own copy of the book.

Fiqh questions handled with the same care.

Ask 'what is the position of the Hanafi school on X?' or 'where does Imam Malik diverge from Imam Shafi'i on Y?' and Cognoir answers from the texts in your library. The answers explicitly identify which madhhab a position belongs to, where the source asserts that affiliation. Cognoir does not assign a madhhab to a quote that the source does not assign to one.

What you can upload

Quran (Arabic or translation), Hadith collections, Tafsir works, Fiqh treatises, religious texts more broadly, classical and contemporary books, and general PDFs / DOCX. Web pages and scanned manuscripts are also supported; scanned material is read by OCR.

File-size cap is 50 MB per file. The complete fourteen-type list is on the source types page.

A note on accuracy

Cognoir is a research aid, not a fatwa engine. The answers it produces are grounded in the specific texts you uploaded; their citations are auditable in two clicks. The judgement of what constitutes a fatwa-eligible answer rests with the qualified scholar reading the output. Cognoir helps locate the passage; it does not pronounce a ruling.

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