Hadith Search Tool
Search by keyword, narrow to a specific collection, and filter by grade — all at once. This tool lets you combine all three filters in one search, to find the most relevant result in this curated set.
Filter by keyword, collection, and grade
Every result below is already listed as plain HTML — fully readable and indexable even with the filters untouched.
Actions are judged by the intention behind them, and everyone will be rewarded according to what they intended.
Meeting your brother with a cheerful smile is counted as an act of charity.
Faith has over seventy branches, the least of which is removing something harmful from the road.
Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should be good to his neighbor.
Truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to Paradise; a person keeps speaking the truth until he is recorded with Allah as truthful.
The strong person is not the one who overcomes others by strength, but the one who stays patient and controls himself when angry.
The Merciful shows mercy to those who are merciful; be merciful to those on earth and the One in heaven will be merciful to you.
Modesty is a branch of faith.
Among the deeds most loved by Allah are prayer offered on time, kindness to parents, and striving in His cause.
Charity does not decrease wealth, and no one forgives another except that Allah increases him in honor.
Backbiting means saying something about your brother that he would dislike, even if it is true.
Fasting is a shield; whoever fasts should avoid obscene speech and quarrels.
Whoever visits a sick person remains, so to speak, in the harvest of Paradise until he returns.
If you relied on Allah as He deserves, He would provide for you as He provides for a bird that leaves hungry in the morning and returns full in the evening.
None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.
Cleanliness is half of faith.
The honest, trustworthy merchant will be with the prophets, the truthful, and the martyrs.
Why this hadith search tool filters three ways at once
Most hadith tools ask you to pick one axis — a topic, or a collection, or a grade. This hadith search tool lets you combine all three, which matters when a request is genuinely specific: “a Sahih hadith about patience, from Sahih al-Bukhari specifically” is a real, common need for a teacher preparing a lesson plan or a student double-checking a citation before an assignment.
Leaving any filter on its default (“All collections,” “Any grade,” empty keyword) simply widens the results — you never have to fill in all three to get something useful.
If you’ve ever spent twenty minutes flipping through a printed collection looking for “that one hadith about patience I remember reading,” this is built for that exact moment. You don’t need to remember the book, the chapter, or the exact wording — a rough topic and a couple of clicks usually get you there.
What each filter in this hadith search tool does
- Keyword — matches against the topic, narrator, and hadith text, so a broad word like “patience” or a specific narrator’s name both work.
- Collection — narrows results to one of three represented books, useful when an assignment specifically requires a Bukhari or Muslim citation.
- Grade — Sahih or Hasan as the primary classification shown; this hadith search tool does not knowingly include narrations primarily graded Da’if. Where a hadith’s grading has varied across editions or scholars, that nuance is noted directly on the entry rather than hidden.
Collections represented
For Sahih-only coverage with more collections represented, see the Sahih Hadith Finder. For a ready-to-cite reference format, see the Hadith Reference Finder.
Getting the most out of this hadith search tool
A search box is only as useful as the words you feed it, so a little strategy helps. Start broad — a single word like “patience” or “charity” — and see what comes back before narrowing with a collection or grade. If nothing matches, it’s almost always the keyword, not the filters: try a simpler or more common word, since this tool matches on the hadith’s own wording and topic label rather than guessing at synonyms.
Narrator names work as keywords too. If you already know a hadith was reported by Abu Hurairah or Anas ibn Malik and want to see what else from that narrator is in this set, typing their name in the keyword box surfaces it directly, no separate narrator filter required.
And if a search comes up empty, that’s useful information in itself — it means this particular curated set of 17 doesn’t happen to cover that exact combination, not that no such hadith exists. The Hadith by Topic Finder and Sahih Hadith Finder draw from different curated sets and are worth a second look before concluding a topic isn’t covered anywhere on the site.
A note for teachers, students, and anyone preparing a lesson
This tool started from a fairly ordinary problem: preparing a class, a khutbah, or a short reminder often means needing one specific, well-sourced hadith fast — not a research project. A teacher planning a lesson on honesty doesn’t usually want to read through an entire book of Sahih al-Bukhari first; they want two or three strong, correctly attributed options to choose from in a couple of minutes.
That’s the gap this fills. Combine a topic with a grade if you specifically need something citable as Sahih for a formal setting, or leave the grade open if a well-attested Hasan narration works just as well for a casual reminder. Either way, what you get back already has the collection, the reference number, and the narrator attached — so there’s no separate step of hunting down a citation after you’ve found the hadith you want to use.
Students preparing an assignment can use the same approach in reverse: search by narrator or keyword to double-check a citation someone else has given you, rather than taking it on faith. If the exact reference number here doesn’t match what you were told, that’s worth checking against a primary source like Sunnah.com before you submit anything.
Sources and methodology
Every hadith in this dataset is drawn from a major, widely recognized collection. Hadith references identify the collection and hadith number so readers can verify the narration against the cited source. English wording is provided for study and may vary between translations. Grades shown (Sahih or Hasan) follow the collection’s own classification or, where applicable, a named later scholar’s grading — where a grading has been discussed differently across sources, that is noted directly in the entry. This tool does not independently authenticate, grade, or generate hadith. It only searches the curated entries published on this page.
Wording here is a plain-English rendering for study, not a certified translation. For exact Arabic text, a formal citation, or a ruling, verify against a primary source such as Sunnah.com.
Why a curated 17 instead of a live database
It would be easy to wire this page up to an external hadith API and call it “thousands of hadith, searchable instantly.” We didn’t, on purpose. A live database means every result depends on someone else’s uptime, someone else’s data quality, and someone else’s decisions about grading — none of which this page could stand behind or explain.
Seventeen entries is small on purpose. Every one of them has been checked against its cited collection, corrected where an earlier version had the wrong collection or narrator, and clearly labeled wherever scholars have graded it differently across sources. That’s a trade-off: fewer results, but each one you can actually trust and verify yourself in a couple of minutes. As this dataset grows, the same standard applies to every new entry — verified before it’s added, not added first and verified later.
Questions
How is this different from Sahih Hadith Finder or Hadith Reference Finder?
Sahih Hadith Finder shows Sahih-only results across six collections. Hadith Reference Finder is built for ready-to-cite output. This hadith search tool lets you combine keyword, collection, and grade filters together in a single search.
Can I combine all three filters at once?
Yes — type a keyword, pick a collection, and pick a grade, and the results update to match all three simultaneously. Leave any filter on its default to widen the results.
Why does the collection dropdown only show three collections?
Those are the three currently represented in this tool’s 17-entry dataset. For results specifically from Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, an-Nasa’i, or Ibn Majah beyond what’s here, try the Sahih Hadith Finder’s six-collection tabs.
Does this tool include Da’if (weak) hadith?
Every entry’s primary classification is Sahih or Hasan. Where a hadith’s grading has been recorded differently across scholars or print editions, that is noted directly on the entry rather than presented as uncontested.
Is this hadith search tool free and connected to a live database?
It’s completely free with no sign-up. It is not connected to a live external database — it searches a fixed, curated set of 17 hadith stored directly on this page.
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