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Sources he cites

The verses, hadith, scholars and books named in his answers, most cited first. Each opens every answer citing it, newest first; verses also open on quran.com and named hadith on sunnah.com. For the sources on one question, open its topic's dossier.

Indexed so far: 259 of 1,859 recordings (1,904 answers, 2014 to 2025). Anything below may change as the rest are indexed. Limits of the data

The number is how many answers cite it, guest speech left out. Cited means brought as evidence or discussed: a hadith he names in order to criticise it counts too. Hadith without a collection and number are listed by their wording and searched on sunnah.com.

Quran verses 214 cited

  1. Quran 5:1109quran.com
  2. Quran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and in maturity)8quran.com
  3. Quran 21:107 (we sent you only as a mercy for the worlds)7quran.com
  4. Quran 2:256 (there is no compulsion in religion)7quran.com
  5. Quran 65:4 (those who have despaired of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their iddah is three months, and those who have not menstruated; the pregnant until they give birth)6quran.com
  6. Quran 22:40-41 (Surah al-Hajj)5quran.com
  7. Quran 2:275 (like one whom Shaytan has driven to madness by his touch)5quran.com
  8. Quran 4:1595quran.com
  9. Quran 27:82 (we will bring out for them a creature from the earth)4quran.com
  10. Quran 2:30 (I will place a khalifa on the earth)4quran.com
  11. Quran 3:554quran.com
  12. Quran 3:59 (the likeness of Jesus is that of Adam)4quran.com
  13. Quran 43:614quran.com
  14. Quran 5:112-115 (the table asked for by the disciples)4quran.com
  15. Quran 9:304quran.com
  16. Quran 10:99 (would you compel people to become believers?)3quran.com
  17. Quran 14:22 (Shaytan on the Day of Judgement: I had no authority over you except that I called you)3quran.com
  18. Quran 21:30 (the heavens and earth were one; every living thing from water)3quran.com
  19. Quran 21:34 (we gave no human before you eternal life)3quran.com
  20. Quran 22:52 (Satan cast into the prophet's wish, then God annulled it)3quran.com
  21. Quran 24:353quran.com
  22. Quran 29:143quran.com
  23. Quran 2:1023quran.com
  24. Quran 2:158 (Safa and Marwa are among the symbols of Allah)3quran.com
  25. Quran 2:279 (be informed of a war from Allah)3quran.com
  26. Quran 37:65 (its shoots are like the heads of devils)3quran.com
  27. Quran 4:171 (the Messiah, messenger of Allah and His word; he cites it as 4:170) [?]3quran.com
  28. Quran 58:22 (strengthened them with a spirit from Him)3quran.com
  29. Quran 65:1 (when you divorce women, divorce them for their iddah; do not expel them from their homes)3quran.com
  30. Quran 68:4 (you are of a great character)3quran.com
All 214

Hadith 359 cited

  1. report: the tree crying for the prophet9sunnah.com
  2. report: magic was done on the prophet and he became impotent6sunnah.com
  3. report: whoever changes his religion kill him6sunnah.com
  4. report: women are the majority of the people of hell and lacking in intellect and faith (in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, number not stated)6sunnah.com
  5. report: musa ran naked so that people could see he had no hernia5sunnah.com
  6. report: ayyuma imraatin istatarat fa marrat ala qawmin li yajidu rihaha fa hiya zaniya4sunnah.com
  7. report: be different to the mushrikin trim the moustaches and let the beards grow4sunnah.com
  8. report: if a dog licks the bowl wash it seven times4sunnah.com
  9. report: if a woman refuses her husband's bed the angels curse her4sunnah.com
  10. report: a woman may not travel except with a mahram (Ibn Umar, Abu Hurayra, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, Ibn Abbas; numbers not stated)3sunnah.com
  11. report: aisha married at six and the marriage consummated at nine3sunnah.com
  12. report: aisha was a jariyah playing when the verse was revealed3sunnah.com
  13. report: at the end of time people will consider maazif permissible (Sahih al-Bukhari, number not stated)3sunnah.com
  14. report: bashshiru wa la tunaffiru yassiru wa la tuassiru3sunnah.com
  15. report: be different to the jews and the christians and dye your hair3sunnah.com
  16. report: be different to the jews and the christians and pray in your shoes3sunnah.com
  17. report: isa will descend break the cross and kill the pigs3sunnah.com
  18. report: jesus passed a pig and said pass by in peace3sunnah.com
  19. report: jibril asks the prophet about iman and the signs of the hour3sunnah.com
  20. report: married her when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nine3sunnah.com
  21. report: the dajjal emerges from the jews of isbahan (aisha)3sunnah.com
  22. report: the prophet recited surat al-najm and prostrated and everyone present prostrated muslims and mushrikin (unresolved; Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, number not stated)3sunnah.com
  23. report: the prophet tried to end his life on several occasions3sunnah.com
  24. report: when jesus descends the people are offered islam or the sword3sunnah.com
  25. report: whoever eats such dates will not be harmed by poison or magic3sunnah.com
  26. report: yanzilu fikum ibn maryam hakaman adlan3sunnah.com
  27. Sahih al-Bukhari 4428 (I still feel the pain of the food I ate; the poison cutting my aorta)2sunnah.com
  28. Sahih al-Bukhari 4725 (Musa and al-Khidr, Book of Tafsir; the collection's name is garbled in the transcript) [?]2sunnah.com
  29. Sahih al-Bukhari 52552sunnah.com
  30. Sahih al-Bukhari 6830 (Umar's speech on the verse of stoning)2sunnah.com
All 359

Scholars 408 cited

  1. Imam Malik170
  2. Yasir Qadhi76
  3. Abu Hanifa71
  4. Imam al-Bukhari48
  5. Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal34
  6. Ibn Ashur33
  7. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani32
  8. Ibn Taymiyya28
  9. al-Shafi'i28
  10. Ibn Hazm24
  11. Hamza Yusuf20
  12. al-Zuhri19
  13. Qadi Iyad18
  14. al-Shawkani18
  15. Ibn Rushd (Averroes)17
  16. Omar Suleiman15
  17. al-Albani15
  18. al-Dhahabi15
  19. al-Nawawi14
  20. Ibn Abd al-Barr13
  21. Abdul Karim Athari [?]12
  22. Abu Dawud12
  23. Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Farabri12
  24. Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi12
  25. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian11
  26. Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi11
  27. Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah11
  28. Abu Hatim al-Razi10
  29. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi10
  30. Ibn al-Jawzi10
All 408

Books 139 cited

  1. Sahih al-Bukhari142
  2. Sahih Muslim56
  3. al-Muwatta25
  4. Sunan Abi Dawud24
  5. Musnad Ahmad21
  6. al-Mudawwana14
  7. the Bible11
  8. The Satanic Verses (novel)10
  9. Fath al-Bari9
  10. al-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir (Ibn Ashur's tafsir)9
  11. Gospel of Luke7
  12. Sunan al-Nasa'i7
  13. Nayl al-Awtar6
  14. Sunan Ibn Majah6
  15. al-Risalah5
  16. Siyar A'lam al-Nubala4
  17. Sunan al-Darimi [?]4
  18. Sunan al-Tirmidhi4
  19. Tafsir Urwat al-Wuthqa [?] (Abdul Karim Athari)4
  20. Torah4
  21. al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyya4
  22. al-Shifa (Qadi Iyad)4
  23. Gospel of Matthew3
  24. Kashti-e-Nuh (The Ark of Noah)3
  25. Mukhtasar Khalil3
  26. Tartib al-Madarik [?]3
  27. Tawq al-Hamama (The Ring of the Dove)3
  28. The Third Chimpanzee3
  29. al-Kafi fi Fiqh Ahl al-Madinah [?] (Ibn Abd al-Barr)3
  30. al-Muhalla (Ibn Hazm)3
All 139