Quran.Foundation
Primary source for the Uthmani Qur'anic Arabic, word-by-word morphology, and the tafsir corpus (Ibn Kathir, al-Baghawi, al-Sa'di, al-Muyassar, Ma'arif al-Qur'an, Tazkirul Qur'an).
Resources
Sources and further reading.
Sakinah does not generate religious text. This page lists the upstream sources the app bundles, and a short list of independent resources we think are worth knowing about.
Where our content comes from
Sakinah bundles text from these sources rather than generating it. Attribution is the point — if you want to verify what you read, go to the source.
Quran.com
Reference translations by named translators, including Saheeh International and Mufti Taqi Usmani.
Sunnah.com
Canonical hadith collections with full Arabic isnad and English translations — Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abi Dawud, Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Riyad as-Salihin, Shu'ab al-Iman.
Sunnah.now (Early Access)
Scholarly API built on Sunnah.com data. Sakinah cross-checks bundled Bukhari Arabic against this source as part of the provenance workflow.
QUL (Tarteel)
Word-by-word data, reciter audio indices, and ayah timing used for the Qur'an reader and audio alignment.
EveryAyah / QuranicAudio
Reciter catalogue for the audio layer (Abdul Basit, Mishary Rashid Alafasy, Saad al-Ghamdi, and others).
Salah.com
Prayer-time reference material used to validate local timing calculations.
Further Islamic reading
Independent platforms we consider well-curated. These are not affiliated with Sakinah.
Nuqayah
A curated directory of Islamic applications and heritage texts — Qur'an readers, tafsir browsers, hadith search, memorisation aids — organised around classical sources. Operated with support from Ayatt Charitable Society (Kuwait).
New to Islam or want a physical Qur'an
For readers exploring Islam or who took the shahada recently. Both sites below are run by the One True Message Foundation, a registered UK charity (No. 1206615), and are not affiliated with Sakinah.
Become Muslim
A gentle, no-pressure introduction to Islam — the shahada, the five daily acts of worship, and early steps.
Free Qur'ans (UK)
Request a free physical Qur'an with English translation, delivered anywhere in the UK.