Data and citing

Limits, first

• Coverage. 259 of 1,859 recordings are indexed so far, 1,904 answers from 2014 to 2025. More are added every day; a gap may only mean a recording is not indexed yet.
• Machine summaries. Questions, summaries, topics and sources are written by a machine from the transcript and can be wrong. Quote the recording, not the summary.
• Checked positions. 1,081 positions are shown, each only after two independent reviews found it in his own voice, with the sentence quoted and timed. None is inferred.
• Quoted views. 226 answers discuss a view he quotes; they are never counted as his.
• Guests. 443 answers include guest speech; it is labelled and left out of positions and of source counts.
• Counts are not stances. That a scholar or hadith is cited says nothing about whether he accepted it.

Accuracy tiers

Each answer's transcript and tags carry a tier; a checked position carries its own (corrected once two reviews pass it, verified once the channel signs it off).

machine 1,904 answers' transcripts and tags

Transcribed and tagged by a machine. Good for finding the moment, not for quoting.

corrected 0 answers' transcripts and tags

Names, terms, verse and hadith references checked by a person.

verified 0 answers' transcripts and tags

Reviewed and approved by the channel. Quotable, with a stable citation.

Downloads

Rebuilt with every update. Identifiers are stable: a segment is <video id>/s/<n> and keeps its number once published; its short id yyyy-mm-dd-Snn resolves at /s/<short id>/.

• segments.json4.4 MBEvery answer: question, summary, topics, sources cited, checked position with its verbatim evidence, tier, times and link.
• recordings.json481 KBEvery recording: kind, title, date, length, views and how many segments it has.
• graph.json9.1 MBTopics, sources and scholars as a graph, with the segments behind every edge.
• graph.graphml8.2 MBThe same graph as GraphML, for Gephi or any network tool.
• connections.json560 KBThe compact form the connection graph page loads.
• feedsRSS, AtomNew answers, per topic and per series.

How to cite

Cite the segment, not the whole recording: its page opens the player at the answer and carries the transcript version and tier. Every recording and segment page ends with these forms ready to copy. For example, for Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?:

Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, August 28). Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day? [Video, segment 2020-08-28-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/

Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?" Video, segment 2020-08-28-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded August 28, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/

@misc{abulayth-2020-08-28-S01,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {8},
  date = {2020-08-28},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-08-28-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2020-08-28-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

To point at the exact words, add the time: a checked position's sentence is linked at its second on YouTube and on the segment page (?t=<seconds>). More on citing