Content & corrections
What Quran Living is and is not, how its accuracy is maintained, and how to report something that is wrong.
Everything on Quran Living is compiled to the best of the contributors' knowledge, and should not be taken as established fact. It is a research and study aid — not a source of religious rulings, and not a replacement for the guidance of trustworthy, knowledgeable scholars (ʿulamāʾ). Always confirm matters of belief and practice with them.
Verifying before you accept, and not asserting what you do not know, are the Qur'ān's own instructions —
How we try to be accurate
- Every entity, article, quiz and flashcard carries provenance — the source it was built from is shown, so you can trace and check it.
- Every authenticity grade shown is a named classical scholar's, quoted — al-Arnaʾūṭ, al-Albānī and their peers. No machine on this site grades a narrator or a hadith. Where software has been used it is to CROSS-CHECK a name-match between datasets, confirmed independently by two or more models before it is accepted; that catches transcription and identity errors and is not an opinion about anyone's reliability. Nothing here is our own ijtihād.
- The Twelver Shia corpus is presented in parallel, tradition-labelled and ungraded; Quran Living never blends gradings across traditions or adjudicates between them.
- Machine-drafted prose and generated quizzes are labelled as such and pass deterministic fact-checks (dates, names, relationships) against the curated data before publishing.
Where the tradition holds more than one position
We attribute. We do not adjudicate. That is the whole editorial rule, and it is worth stating plainly rather than leaving to be inferred, because it is the thing most likely to be misread from a screenshot.
- A grading is a named scholar's, quoted — al-Arnaʾūṭ's, al-Albānī's, Ibn Ḥajar's. It is shown as theirs, with their name on it. We do not grade anything ourselves and we do not choose between graders who disagree; where they differ, both verdicts are shown.
- Sunni and Twelver Shia material is held separately and labelled, never blended. A grading from one tradition's rijāl scholarship is never applied to the other's narrations, because doing so would be a claim neither tradition makes.
- The Shia collections here carry no gradings because the dataset we hold contains none — not because they were withheld, and not as a judgement on them. An absent grade means we have nothing to show, never that a report is weak, and never that it is sound.
- Aḥkām are an evidence index, not rulings. The verses and reports the schools discuss are gathered and attributed; which position is correct is not ours to settle and is not settled here.
- Nothing here is a fatwā, and none of it substitutes for a qualified scholar you can actually ask.
If you think a position has been represented unfairly — yours or anyone's — that is a correction we want, and the same route below applies. Show us the place and the evidence.
But mistakes can still happen
Despite these safeguards, the corpus is large and drawn from many sources. Transcription errors, mis-attributions, translation choices, missing context, or outdated information may remain. Nothing here should be taken as definitive without checking the underlying evidence and consulting scholars.
Why we say this
The instruction to check before accepting, and not to assert what you do not know, is not our editorial policy — it is the Qur'ān's. These are the āyāt this notice rests on; each opens in the reader with its translations and tafsīr.
Found a mistake? Point it out
If you find anything that is incorrect, mis-attributed, or not soundly evidence-based, we want to know. We are not asking you to take on a review role or to vouch for the site — just show us the error and the evidence, and we will correct it.
What makes a report we can act on:
- The specific place — the sūra:āyah, the hadith reference (collection and number), or the article and section. A page link is ideal.
- What the page currently says, and what you believe is correct.
- The evidence, where you can give it: a citation, a named edition with volume and page, or the classical source you are relying on.
A report without a citation is still worth sending. A report without a location is very hard to act on, because the corpus runs to tens of thousands of pages.
Every report is checked against the cited sources. Where a correction is made, the change is applied to the underlying data, so it propagates everywhere that passage appears rather than being patched on one page.