Substrate: Human–machine collaborative. Sources located, fetched, checked against their git blob ids and against their headers, assembled into a seat, hashed and indexed, and every locus found in the seated text, all in session by TACHYON (Claude, Anthropic) under MANUS (Lee Sharks) direction. The request, the hadith supplementary to the Qur'an as an EA-CORPORA seating, is Lee Sharks's; the witness and the scope were chosen in session and are reported in the seat record. CC-BY-4.0 applies to this record and the seat record; the payload carries its own licence, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
corpus seatingprimary sourcesoriginal languageArabichadithsunnaal-Kutub al-Tis'aal-Kutub al-Sittaal-Kutub al-Arba'aMuwattaMalik ibn AnasMusnadAhmad ibn Hanbalal-DarimiSahih al-Bukharial-BukhariSahih MuslimMuslim ibn al-HajjajSunan Ibn MajahSunan Abi DawudJami' al-TirmidhiSunan al-Nasa'ial-Mujtabaal-Kafial-KulayniMan la yahduruhu al-faqihIbn Babawayhal-Shaykh al-SaduqTahdhib al-ahkamal-Istibsaral-Shaykh al-TusiForty Hadithal-NawawiSunniImami Shi'iQur'anOpenITIKITABTraining Layer Literatureoriginals shelfEA-CORPORA
One seat on the originals shelf, 14 collections and 675,049 lines of Arabic: the hadith, the reports of what the Prophet Muhammad said and did, which with the Qur'an (seated since EA-CORPORA-02/08) are the sources of Islamic law and practice. The nine books Sunni scholarship calls al-Kutub al-Tis'a (the Muwatta of Malik, the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the Sunan of al-Darimi, the Sahihs of al-Bukhari and Muslim, and the Sunans of Ibn Majah, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasa'i); the four books of the Imami Shi'i tradition, al-Kutub al-Arba'a (al-Kulayni's al-Kafi, Ibn Babawayh's Man la yahduruhu al-faqih, al-Tusi's Tahdhib al-ahkam and al-Istibsar); and al-Nawawi's Forty. Each is the version the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) marks primary, pinned by commit, checked against its git blob, with the printed edition its header names and its OpenITI version record. The texts are OpenITI's, under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. What is not seated (the Sunan al-Kubra, the Sahihs of Ibn Khuzayma and Ibn Hibban, the Mustadrak, al-Bayhaqi, the Zaydi and Ibadi musnads, translations) is named.
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EA-CORPORA-23 is the twenty-third seating of primary sources on the Crimson Hexagonal Archive's originals shelf, deposited by Lee Sharks on 27 October 2026. It seats the hadith, the reports of the sayings and acts of the Prophet Muhammad transmitted through chains of named narrators, in Arabic, as a supplement to the Qur'an, which the shelf has held since EA-CORPORA-02 (seat 02/08, the Tanzil Uthmani text). The seat, 23/01, holds fourteen collections in two canons. The Sunni canon is represented by the nine books known as al-Kutub al-Tis'a: the Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas, the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the Sunan of al-Darimi, the Sahih collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim, and the Sunan collections of Ibn Majah, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasa'i. The Imami Shi'i canon is represented by its four books, al-Kutub al-Arba'a: al-Kulayni's al-Kafi, Ibn Babawayh's Man la yahduruhu al-faqih, and al-Tusi's Tahdhib al-ahkam and al-Istibsar. Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith completes the seat. Each text is the version that the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) marks as primary, fetched at a pinned commit and checked against its git blob identifier, and seated with its OpenITI version record and the printed edition its header names. The seat totals 675,049 lines, with fifteen loci, among them the hadith on intentions that opens Sahih al-Bukhari, located in the seated text. The digital texts are OpenITI's and carry its CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence; the record is CC BY 4.0. Collections held in OpenITI and not seated in this pass, including al-Nasa'i's al-Sunan al-Kubra, Ibn Khuzayma, Ibn Hibban, al-Hakim, al-Bayhaqi and the Zaydi and Ibadi musnads, are listed as queued.
EA-CORPORA-23 — The Twenty-Third Seating: The Hadith in Arabic, the Nine Books, the Four Books of the Imami Tradition and al-Nawawi's Forty
EA-CORPORA-23 — The Twenty-Third Seating: The Hadith in Arabic, the Nine Books, the Four Books of the Imami Tradition and al-Nawawi's Forty
EA-CORPORA-23 — The Twenty-Third Seating
MANUS, 27 October 2026: "lets seat the hadith" — "i mean the hadith supplementary to the quran" — "as ea-corpora".
The Qur'an has been on the shelf since the second seating (EA-CORPORA-02/08, the Tanzil Uthmani text, #1531). This seating places beside it the hadith, in Arabic, as each of the two largest traditions defines its canon: the Sunni nine books and the Imami Shi'i four books, with al-Nawawi's Forty, the short collection most read and memorized.
Seat 23/01 — The Hadith
al-Kutub al-Tis'a, al-Kutub al-Arba'a and al-Arba'un al-Nawawiyya, in Arabic, from OpenITI
al-Kutub al-Tis'a (Sunni)
Malik ibn Anas (d. 179/795), al-Muwatta' (الموطأ), ed. Muhammad Mustafa al-A'zami (Abu Dhabi: Mu'assasat Zayid ibn Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st ed., 1425/2004); OpenITI 0179MalikIbnAnas.Muwatta.Shamela0028107-ara1. The text, 33,721 lines; version record.
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855), al-Musnad (مسند الإمام أحمد بن حنبل), ed. Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut, 'Adil Murshid and others (Mu'assasat al-Risala, 1st ed., 1421/2001; OCLC 264939610); OpenITI 0241IbnHanbal.Musnad.Shamela0025794-ara1. The text, 145,927 lines; version record.
'Abd Allah al-Darimi (d. 255/869), al-Sunan (سنن الدارمي), ed. Fawwaz Ahmad Zamarli and Khalid al-Sab' al-'Ilmi (Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-'Arabi, 1st ed., 1407); OpenITI 0255CabdAllahDarimi.Sunan.JK000842-ara1. The text, 14,875 lines; version record.
Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari (d. 256/870), al-Jami' al-sahih al-mukhtasar (الجامع الصحيح المختصر; Sahih al-Bukhari), ed. Mustafa Dib al-Bugha (Beirut: Dar Ibn Kathir, al-Yamama, 3rd ed., 1407/1987; collated by OpenITI against OCLC 54146380); OpenITI 0256Bukhari.Sahih.JK000110-ara1. The text, 48,686 lines; version record.
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (d. 261/875), al-Sahih (صحيح مسلم) (Beirut: Dar Ihya' al-Turath al-'Arabi, n.d.; OCLC 1158880746); OpenITI 0261Muslim.Sahih.Shamela0001727-ara1. The text, 54,111 lines; version record.
Ibn Majah (d. 273/887), al-Sunan (سنن ابن ماجه), ed. Muhammad Fu'ad 'Abd al-Baqi (Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, n.d.); OpenITI 0273IbnMaja.Sunan.JK000141-ara1. The text, 21,219 lines; version record.
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani (d. 275/889), al-Sunan (سنن أبي داود), ed. Muhammad Muhyi al-Din 'Abd al-Hamid (Dar al-Fikr, n.d.); OpenITI 0275AbuDawudSijistani.Sunan.JK000142-ara1. The text, 28,385 lines; version record.
Muhammad ibn 'Isa al-Tirmidhi (d. 279/892), al-Jami' al-sahih, Sunan al-Tirmidhi (الجامع الصحيح سنن الترمذي), ed. Ahmad Muhammad Shakir and others (Beirut: Dar Ihya' al-Turath al-'Arabi, n.d.); OpenITI 0279Tirmidhi.Sunan.JK000140-ara1. The text, 34,117 lines; version record.
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i (d. 303/915), al-Mujtaba min al-sunan (المجتبى من السنن; Sunan al-Nasa'i), ed. 'Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda (Aleppo: Maktab al-Matbu'at al-Islamiyya, 2nd ed., 1406/1986; OCLC 957290738); OpenITI 0303Nasai.SunanSughra.JK000130-ara1. The text, 29,764 lines; version record.
al-Kutub al-Arba'a (Imami Shi'i)
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (d. 329/941), al-Kafi (الكافي) (Tehran: Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, 1968, as the file's header states; OCLC 4770611378); OpenITI 0329IbnYacqubKulayni.Kafi.Shia001122Vols-ara1. The text, 98,148 lines; version record.
Ibn Babawayh al-Saduq (d. 381/991), Man la yahduruhu al-faqih (من لا يحضره الفقيه), corrected and annotated by 'Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari (2nd ed.; OCLC 4770017161); OpenITI 0381IbnBabawayhSaduq.ManLaYahduruhuFaqih.Shia001149Vols-ara1. The text, 34,172 lines; version record.
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (d. 460/1067), Tahdhib al-ahkam fi sharh al-Muqni'a (تهذيب الاحكام في شرح المقنعة), 10 vols (OCLC 708708180; the file's header gives no publisher); OpenITI 0460ShaykhTusi.TahdhibAhkam.Zaydiyya0000302-ara1. The text, 97,912 lines; version record.
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (d. 460/1067), al-Istibsar (الاستبصار) (Najaf: Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, 1957, as the file's header states); OpenITI 0460ShaykhTusi.Istibsar.Shia001157Vols-ara1. The text, 33,524 lines; version record.
Forty
Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277), al-Arba'un al-Nawawiyya (الأربعون النووية) (Beirut: Dar al-Minhaj, 1st ed., 1430/2009); OpenITI 0676Nawawi.ArbacunaNawawiyya.Shamela0012836-ara1. The text, 488 lines; version record.
Licence: The collections are of the second to seventh centuries AH (eighth to thirteenth CE). The digital texts are OpenITI's, published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (attribution, non-commercial, share-alike), with the editorial matter of in-copyright printed editions removed by OpenITI; seated under the same licence. Non-commercial, as the shelf's three NC seats before it are (02/01 DSS, 02/16 Talmud Bavli, 03/01 Whitman); the first with share-alike. The record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
The release's licence, verbatim: "OpenITI is published under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license." (KITAB project documentation, FAQ, https://kitab-project.org/docs/openITI, read 2026-10-27); the Zenodo release record (doi:10.5281/zenodo.3082463, version 2025.1.9) states "Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International". The text repositories carry no licence file of their own.
OpenITI on copyright, verbatim: "OpenITI has a duty to ensure all content of uploaded texts is not subject to copyright. In order to comply with this, all editions which are still in copyright must have their copyrighted content removed (that is all editorial input, such as footnotes and introductory matter)." (same FAQ)
Citation: Romanov, Maxim, and Masoumeh Seydi. OpenITI: A Machine-Readable Corpus of Islamicate Texts. Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.3082463; files cited by their OpenITI URIs, as the project asks.
Verified locus: Muwatta, the hadith of the two things left behind — 'تركت فيكم أمرين'
Verified locus: Musnad, the first musnad — 'مسند أبي بكر الصديق'
Verified locus: Darimi, the opening bab — 'باب ما كان عليه الناس قبل مبعث النبي'
Verified locus: Bukhari, hadith 1, on intentions — 'إنما الأعمال بالنيات'
Verified locus: Bukhari, the lawful and the unlawful — 'الحلال بين والحرام بين'
Verified locus: Muslim, the hadith of Jibril — 'أخبرني عن الإسلام'
Verified locus: Ibn Majah, seeking knowledge — 'فريضة على كل مسلم'
Verified locus: Abu Dawud, the renewer of each century — 'يجدد لها دينها'
Verified locus: Tirmidhi, the first bab — 'باب ما جاء لا تقبل صلاة بغير طهور'
Verified locus: Nasa'i, on intention — 'إنما الأعمال بالنية'
Verified locus: al-Kafi, the opening book — 'كتاب العقل والجهل'
Verified locus: al-Faqih, its title in the text — 'من لا يحضره الفقيه'
Verified locus: Tahdhib, the first bab — 'باب الاحداث الموجبة للطهارة'
Verified locus: Istibsar, the measure of the kurr — 'باب كمية الكر'
Verified locus: al-Nawawi's Forty, hadith 1 — 'إنما الأعمال بالنيات'
Lines: 675,049 in 14 text files; 30 files in the seat
Normalization: None. Each text is seated as OpenITI publishes it at the pinned commit: OpenITI mARkdown (the #META# header naming the printed edition,
headings for kitab and bab, ~~ for wrapped lines, ms/PageV page markers), in UTF-8, most texts without full vocalization. The file is its own text layer, so no second copy is emitted; each file's OpenITI version record (.yml) is seated beside it. Every file is verified against its git blob id at the pinned commit.
Scope: The nine books Sunni scholarship calls al-Kutub al-Tis'a: the Muwatta of Malik, the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the Sunan of al-Darimi, the two Sahihs of al-Bukhari and Muslim, and the Sunans of Ibn Majah, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasa'i (al-Mujtaba); the four books of the Imami Shi'i tradition, al-Kutub al-Arba'a: al-Kulayni's al-Kafi, Ibn Babawayh's Man la yahduruhu al-faqih, and al-Tusi's Tahdhib al-ahkam and al-Istibsar; and al-Nawawi's Forty, the most read short collection. One version of each, the version OpenITI marks PRIMARY_VERSION in its metadata. Al-Nasa'i's al-Sunan al-Kubra, Ibn Khuzayma, Ibn Hibban, al-Hakim's Mustadrak, al-Bayhaqi, the Zaydi Musnad of Zayd ibn Ali, and the Ibadi Musnad of al-Rabi' ibn Habib are in OpenITI and not seated in this pass: QUEUED. Translations are not seated.
Witness: Rejected as witness: fawazahmed0/hadith-api (Unlicense; Arabic editions credited to 'Unknown', with no printed edition named). OpenITI's texts derive from al-Maktaba al-Shamila, the Jami' al-Kabir (JK), shiaonlinelibrary.com and the Zaydi library, as their URIs record; OpenITI reports their quality varies by source and they are not proofread against the print throughout.
Why seated: Asked for as the hadith supplementary to the Qur'an, which the shelf has held since EA-CORPORA-02/08 (the Tanzil Uthmani text): the reports of what the Prophet said and did, transmitted by chains of named reporters, which with the Qur'an make up the sources of Islamic law and practice. Both the Sunni and the Imami Shi'i canons are seated, each as its own tradition defines it.
Al-Nasa'i's al-Sunan al-Kubra, the Sahihs of Ibn Khuzayma and Ibn Hibban, al-Hakim's al-Mustadrak, al-Bayhaqi's al-Sunan al-Kubra, the Musnad of Zayd ibn Ali and the Musnad of al-Rabi' ibn Habib: in OpenITI, not seated in this pass. QUEUED.
The other versions OpenITI holds of each seated work (other digital libraries' typings of the same or other printed editions): one primary version per work is seated. QUEUED as a comparative witness programme.
Translations: not seated, by the shelf's rule.
Manuscripts: none in an open, licensed digital edition was found in this pass.
The hadith dataset fawazahmed0/hadith-api (Unlicense): its Arabic editions name no printed edition, so it is not taken as witness.
How the seat was made
The works were found in OpenITI's text repositories on GitHub (blob-less clones of 0200AH, 0250AH, 0275AH, 0300AH, 0325AH, 0350AH, 0400AH, 0475AH and 0700AH, each at the commit recorded in source.json). For each work the version marked PRIMARY_VERSION in its OpenITI version record was chosen. Each text and its version record were fetched from raw.githubusercontent.com at the pinned commit and checked against the git blob id the clone lists for it; none differed. The edition statements are read from each file's own #META# header and its version record, and nothing is asserted beyond them: where a header names no editor, publisher or year, none is given. The licence was read on the KITAB project's documentation and on the Zenodo release record. The texts are seated as published, in OpenITI mARkdown, and each is its own text layer. Every file is hashed into the seat's MANIFEST.sha256; every verified locus is a string found in the seated text by rebuild/corpora/ea-corpora-23/seat.py from the specification beside it, spec23-hadith.json.