Corrections

What this page is

This is the errata log for tasbih.info. When we publish something about Islam that turns out to be wrong, the fix gets an entry here.

Entries stay up. If a correction later needs correcting, that gets its own entry and the first one remains. Nothing here is quietly edited away.

• The date the fix went live
• Where it was: the page, and the dhikr or hadith involved
• What was wrong, written out as we had published it
• What it says now
• Who reported it, when they've asked to be named

Why it exists

Publishing dhikr with counts next to them is easy. Publishing the times you got them wrong is the part almost nobody does. We went through the tasbih apps and counters we could find and didn't see one with a page like this, though we could have missed one.

A site that prints hadith numbers and gradings is asking you to trust it on something that matters. This log costs us something to keep, which is why it's worth more than a claim about accuracy.

It only works with age. A log with 5 years of entries shows a site that gets checked and fixes things. A log that opened this week shows very little. We're publishing it now so that later it means something.

What counts as a correction

A correction is a factual error in religious content. These are the kinds we log:

Typos, broken links, layout problems and new features aren't corrections and don't go here. Padding this log with spelling fixes would make it look busier and more careful than it really is.

• A wrong hadith reference: wrong collection, wrong number, or a link that lands on a different narration
• A wrong grading, including dropping a grading that differs from the one sunnah.com prints
• A count shown as narrated when no narration gives that number
• An error in the Arabic: a missing shadda, a wrong hamza, a dropped or doubled word
• A mistranslation, or an English wording that shifts the meaning
• A source we cited that doesn't say what we said it says

The log

One entry so far. The log opened on 5 August 2026, so a short list this early says the site is new. It does not say the site is free of errors.

8 August 2026: two words added to the Salatul Tasbih hadith

A copy of Sunan Abi Dawud 1297 circulating online carries مِنَ السُّجُودِ at the seventh position, where the phrase is said after rising from the second prostration. The text at sunnah.com does not carry it there. The phrase is genuinely in this hadith, but at the fifth position, after rising from the first prostration.

Nothing wrong had been published. The Arabic was being withheld from the site precisely because it had not been checked, and the addition was caught while checking a copy submitted for inclusion. The matn now on the method page is the sunnah.com text, and its provenance line says exactly how far the checking went.

Logged because the near miss is the useful part. A two-word insertion into a matn survives being read aloud and survives being copied from site to site. The only thing that catches it is a character-level comparison against the source.

10 August 2026: a defect reported in our own data that wasn't there

While checking a drafted guide, Sahih al-Bukhari 6682 was read at the source and found to carry 2 separate phrases, SubhanAllahi wa bihamdihi and SubhanAllahil-Azim, rather than the single combined wording SubhanAllahil-Azimi wa bihamdihi that circulates widely. That part was right, and it is now on the page.

What followed was not. This site's own preset for those words was declared to be citing 6682 for the combined wording and therefore wrong, and a sentence saying so was written into the guide and committed. Nobody had opened the preset. It carries both phrases with a comma between them, correctly transliterated, correctly sourced. It had been right the whole time.

Caught before deployment, so no reader saw it. The false sentence has been removed and the preset is unchanged, because there was nothing to change.

Logged because the failure runs the opposite way to the usual one. Checking a source and then reasoning about our own data instead of reading it produced a public accusation against a page that was already correct. A claim about what this site says needs the same verification as a claim about what a collection says, and it did not get it.

10 August 2026: the position on streaks changed

The guide on whether dhikr after salah is obligatory carried a section arguing that streaks and badges import an assumption from productivity software that does not belong in voluntary worship: that a gap is a failure. It then stated flatly that this site has no streaks and never would.

The site is going to add one. Rather than ship it and leave that page contradicting the product, the page has been rewritten to say what changed and why. The caution stands, because it was about how a number is framed. The absolute did not survive: a count of consecutive days is a fact, and it only becomes a debt when software treats a break in it as damage.

What that commits the site to is now written on the page: a streak you can switch off, no notification chasing you, no broken-flame graphic, no warning before it lapses, and no comment when it resets. If it ever starts nagging, the section criticises this site too, and this page is where to report it.

Logged because a site that argues a position in print and then quietly does the opposite has spent the only thing it has. The feature is not the correction. Changing a published argument without saying so would have been.

10 August 2026: the Urdu and Hindi meaning pages were removed

Two guides, on the meaning of tasbih in Urdu and in Hindi, have been taken down. They were not withdrawn for being wrong. The decision is commercial: the site is heading towards a paid tier, and those two pages were written to reach readers in markets that are not part of that plan.

Recorded here rather than deleted in silence, because pages disappearing without explanation is exactly what this log exists to prevent. Neither page had been published to a live domain, so no reader lost a page they had been reading and no link anywhere points at them.

Worth naming the cost: Urdu and Hindi are also spoken across Britain, the Gulf, North America and elsewhere, and those readers lose the pages too.

How to report an error

Email help@tasbih.info and put "correction" in the subject. Keep each email to a single error if you can, but send them however suits you.

You don't need to be a scholar to report one. Most errors of this kind get found by people who simply know a narration better than we do.

On privacy, plainly: this page loads no third-party script and sends nothing about you to anyone. Our host, Cloudflare, sees the request itself, including your IP address, the way every web host does. Your email sits in an ordinary inbox. We don't add you to a list and we don't pass it on.

• The page you were on
• What we got wrong, in your own words
• A source we can check: a sunnah.com link, a printed edition with a page number, or a fatwa with its number
• Your name, and whether you want it in the entry

What happens after you report

A single person maintains this site, so this is what that person holds to rather than a best case:

If 14 days pass and you've heard nothing back, the email got lost. Please send it again.

Reporters are credited by name only when they ask for it. The default is no name.

• A reply within 7 days, even if it's only "received, checking this"
• If you're right and it's clear cut, the fix goes live within 14 days and the log entry goes up the same day as the fix
• If you're right and it's tangled, a contested grading or a disputed narration, we write back with what we're checking and how long it will take
• If we think you're wrong, we write back and say why, and name the source we relied on. We don't go quiet
• If the error is bad enough to mislead someone in their worship, the phrase comes out of the app first and gets fixed after

How we try to get it right the first time

Errors are cheaper to prevent than to log. 5 rules do most of that work:

Every hadith in the counter sits behind the info button next to the phrase, with the collection, the number and a link to the narration. The sources page also lists every preset in one place.

• Every dhikr in the app carries its source, with a direct sunnah.com or Quran.com link behind the info button next to the phrase
• Arabic is copied from a primary source, never typed from memory
• Where a hadith gives no count, the app shows "no set count" instead of inventing one. 8 of the 21 presets are in that state
• Where a collection's printed grade differs from a scholar's, both are shown. That applies to 1 entry today: La ilaha illallah carries all 3, Tirmidhi's hasan gharib, al-Albani's hasan, and al-Hakim's sahih with al-Dhahabi agreeing
• The guided post-salah sequence has 9 sourced steps, including the three Quls. Ayat al-Kursi is a verified preset but is not a guided step because its post-salah narration is outside the collections this site can link to directly.

We cite sources, we don't issue rulings

Mufti Salim Qasmi builds the site and reviews its Islamic content. No institution has reviewed or endorsed it, and his qualification belongs to him rather than to the website.

What we do is quote primary sources, link to them, and print gradings as the collections and the scholars gave them. Where scholars disagree, we show the disagreement rather than pick a side.

So a correction here means a citation, an Arabic text or a translation was wrong. It doesn't mean a ruling changed. For a ruling, ask a scholar you trust.