Sources: every hadith this app cites

The rules this content follows

Three of these are written at the top of the file that holds the dhikr data, so they apply to all 21 presets. The fourth is an editorial rule for the project, and it decides how a disagreement gets written up.

• If a hadith gives no number, we say so. The preset ships with no count at all rather than a number somebody chose later. 8 of the 21 ship that way.
• Gradings are printed even when the awkward one is the accurate one. 15 of the 21 presets cite Bukhari or Muslim, where the collection itself supplies the grading context; entries that need a separate grading note keep it visible.
• Nothing is sourced from memory. Hadith Arabic is copied from a primary source page, not typed out and not lifted from another app. Quranic Arabic has a stricter rule again: two independent sources, compared character by character including every harakat, before a single verse ships. That is why the three Quls arrived after the rest of the library rather than with it.
• Where scholars differ, both positions get printed and neither is picked for you. We name the scholar or the body behind each ruling rather than ruling ourselves.

Where you see this in the app

Tap the info button next to the transliteration on the counter. The sheet gives the Arabic, the full transliteration (the counter shortens the long ones), the English meaning, the count note if there is one, the grading if there is one, and a direct link to the hadith on sunnah.com or the Qur'anic passage on Quran.com.

That source link opens only when you tap it. It opens in a new tab with rel="noopener noreferrer", so your browser doesn't tell the destination which page you came from. After that you're on the other site, under its logging, not ours.

Nothing else is fetched from another site while you count. The fonts are served from this site, the click sound is built in your browser instead of downloaded, and the build has no analytics package and no ad code in it. The service worker ignores any request that isn't to this site.

The site itself runs on Cloudflare. Like any host, they see the request, including your IP address, and that isn't something we can switch off for you. It's separate from the app: your counts and your session history stay in your browser's storage, there's no account, no database behind the site, and nothing that could tie a count to a person.

What we cite

The presets cite three hadith collections and five Qur'anic passages. Every source URL points to the exact narration or passage rather than to a generic home page.

• Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim supply most of the hadith references, with their exact narration numbers retained.
• Jami' at-Tirmidhi supplies references 3383 and 3513. Where grading authorities differ, the entry names them instead of flattening the disagreement.
• Qur'an 3:173 is cited alongside Sahih al-Bukhari 4563 for Hasbunallahu wa ni'mal-wakeel. Ayat al-Kursi and the three Quls link directly to Quran 2:255 and surahs 112, 113 and 114.
• sunnah.com is used for 17 hadith source links; 4 Qur'an-only presets link to quran.com. Each URL lands on the exact narration or passage.

The 21 presets and their sources

Each line gives the preset name as it appears in the dhikr menu, then the transliteration where it differs from the name, then the source, then the count the app ships.

• SubhanAllah. Sahih Muslim 597a. Count 33.
• Alhamdulillah. Sahih Muslim 597a. Count 33.
• Allahu Akbar. Sahih Muslim 597a. Count 33.
• Tahlil (closing): La ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah, lahul-mulku wa lahul-hamdu wa huwa 'ala kulli shay'in qadir. Sahih al-Bukhari 844. Count 1.
• The salam formula: Allahumma anta as-Salam, wa minka as-salam, tabarakta dha'l-jalali wa'l-ikram. Sahih Muslim 591. Count 1.
• Astaghfirullah. Sahih Muslim 591. Count 3.
• Istighfar (long): Astaghfirullaha wa atubu ilayh. Sahih al-Bukhari 6307. Count 100.
• SubhanAllahi wa bihamdihi. Sahih al-Bukhari 6405. Count 100.
• The two heavy words: SubhanAllahi wa bihamdih, SubhanAllahil-'Azim. Sahih al-Bukhari 6682. No count.
• La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah. Sahih al-Bukhari 6384. No count.
• La ilaha illallah. Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3383. No count.
• Durood Ibrahim: Allahumma salli 'ala Muhammadin wa 'ala ali Muhammad, kama sallayta 'ala Ibrahima wa 'ala ali Ibrahim, innaka Hamidun Majid. Allahumma barik 'ala Muhammadin wa 'ala ali Muhammad, kama barakta 'ala Ibrahima wa 'ala ali Ibrahim, innaka Hamidun Majid.. Sahih al-Bukhari 3370. No count.
• Short salawat: Allahumma salli 'ala Muhammad. Sahih Muslim 408. No count.
• Hasbunallahu wa ni'mal-wakeel. Qur'an 3:173 · Sahih al-Bukhari 4563. No count.
• Juwayriyah's phrase: SubhanAllahi wa bihamdihi, 'adada khalqih, wa rida nafsih, wa zinata 'arshih, wa midada kalimatih. Sahih Muslim 2726a. Count 3.
• Laylatul Qadr dua: Allahumma innaka 'Afuwwun tuhibbul-'afwa fa'fu 'anni. Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3513. No count.
• Talbiyah: Labbayka Allahumma labbayk, labbayka la sharika laka labbayk, innal-hamda wan-ni'mata laka wal-mulk, la sharika lak. Sahih al-Bukhari 1549. No count.
• Ayat al-Kursi: Allahu la ilaha illa huwa, al-Hayyul-Qayyum. Qur'an 2:255. Count 1.
• Surah al-Ikhlas: Qul huwa Allahu ahad. Qur'an 112. Count 1.
• Surah al-Falaq: Qul a'udhu bi-Rabbil-falaq. Qur'an 113. Count 1.
• Surah an-Nas: Qul a'udhu bi-Rabbin-nas. Qur'an 114. Count 1.

Where the count is common practice

8 of the 21 presets have no count. For these, the hadith gives a phrase and a reward, and no number.

Open one of them and the counter shows "no set count" where the target usually sits, the ring never fills, and the session lands in your history as "no set count" too. You keep counting for as long as you want and nothing tells you when to stop, because nothing in the text tells you when to stop.

18 of the 21 presets carry a count note. The 8 above explain why there is no number; the remaining notes distinguish related narrations or explain what a narrated count applies to.

• No count narrated: The two heavy words (Bukhari 6682). The hadith gives no count. 100 is common practice, not a narrated number.
• No count narrated: La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah (Bukhari 6384). The same hadith says "be easy on yourselves, you are not calling on one who is deaf or absent".
• No count narrated: La ilaha illallah (Tirmidhi 3383). 100 is common practice.
• No count narrated: Durood Ibrahim (Bukhari 3370). All Durood Ibrahim is Durood Shareef, and not all Durood Shareef is Durood Ibrahim.
• No count narrated: Short salawat (Muslim 408). "Whoever sends one salah upon me, Allah sends ten upon him." The hadith states the reward, not a daily count.
• No count narrated: Hasbunallahu wa ni'mal-wakeel (Quran 3:173, Bukhari 4563). Not to be confused with the 7-times morning and evening version, which is disputed.
• No fixed count: Talbiyah (Bukhari 1549). Recited continuously from the miqat until tawaf for Umrah, or Jamrat al-Aqabah for Hajj.
• Counted, with a note: Allahu Akbar. 33 is the Abu Hurayrah narration (Muslim 597a). The 34 form is a different narration, from Ka'b ibn 'Ujrah (Muslim 596a). They're two hadith, and most blog posts merge them into one.
• Counted, with a note: Astaghfirullah. 3 times after the salam (Muslim 591). Separately, 100 a day (Muslim 2702) and "more than 70" (Bukhari 6307) are two different narrations with different wordings.
• Counted, with a note: Tahlil (closing). Said once to complete the hundred after salah. As a daily dhikr it's 100 (Bukhari 6403, Muslim 2691).

What isn't here yet

The three Quls now close the post-salah sequence. Their text was fetched from two independent Qur'an sources and compared character by character including every harakat before it went in, which is why they waited rather than shipping with the rest of the library. Ayat al-Kursi is a preset with its text verified the same way, but it is not a step in the sequence: the narration placing it after every fard prayer sits in al-Nasa'i's Amal al-Yawm wa'l-Layla, outside the collections this site links to, and a step in a narrated sequence has to carry a narration you can open.

Sunan Abi Dawud now appears: 1523 is the narration for reciting the three Quls after every prayer, graded sahih by al-Albani, and Sunan an-Nasa'i 1336 carries the same report as hasan.

Mufti Salim Qasmi reviews the Islamic content, but no institution or second scholarly board has reviewed or endorsed the site. It is a reference tool rather than a fatwa service; where a question is contested, the page names the positions and their sources.

If something here is wrong

A wrong hadith number, a wrong grading, a missing count note, a transliteration that's off: all of it is worth reporting, and the small ones matter as much as the big ones.

There is no in-app report form. The corrections page is the public record, and reports can be sent directly to help@tasbih.info.

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