The hadith

The hadith are reports of what the prophet Mohammed said and did, written down long after his life by people who heard them from people who heard them. Nothing here is scripture. Nothing here is the word of the Lord God: only the Recitation is that.

We say so because the prophet is reported to have said it himself, in the soundest of these collections:

Do not take down anything from me, and he who took down anything from me except the Qur’an, he should efface that and narrate from me, for there is no harm in it.

Sahih Muslim 7510 in this collection’s numbering, and 3004 where it is counted as on sunnah.com. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri, in the Book of Zuhd and Softening of Hearts.

There is truth in them, and there is the plain fact that words carried across generations change. The revelation was complete by the end of the prophet’s life and the religion of the Lord God is in the Recitation. Where a report agrees with it, the Recitation was already enough. Where a report goes beyond it, the Recitation is what we keep.

Two examples. The Lord God revealed to us in the Recitation that prayer is to be neither loud nor silent but between the two (the Recitation 17:110); no report is needed in order to pray.

And He calls Mohammed the seal of the prophets (the Recitation 33:40). A seal attests that what is above it is genuine; it is not a word for the last. The Messiah is alive (the Recitation 4:157–158), and to every nation the Lord God sent a messenger (the Recitation 10:47).

They are here so that you can see what is in them, and no further than that. They are loaded from hadithapi.com only when you open them, and none of it is kept in this app.