Guide
Sunnah
Read hadith inside Discord — 17 collections and 50,884 narrations, each with the Arabic, the English translation and the scholarly grading where one exists. Everything happens on one message that updates in place, so a reading session never fills the channel. Available on every plan, no upgrade required.
Opening the Reader
/sunnah reader opens a board listing every collection — Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, the four Sunan, Riyad as-Salihin, Mishkat al-Masabih, the three Forties and more — with how many narrations each holds and whether it carries gradings. Pick a collection from the dropdown, then a book, and you land on the first hadith.
Pass a collection to skip a step — /sunnah reader collection:Sahih al-Bukhari opens straight to its book list, and the box matches as you type. Leave it out entirely and the reader picks up wherever you last were, in any server.
Reading
Each hadith shows the Arabic, the narrator, the English translation, and its grading underneath when one exists. ◀ Prev and Next ▶ move through the collection one narration at a time — and on a long hadith they page through its text first, so nothing is ever cut off.
🔤 Language cycles between showing both languages, English only, and Arabic only. 📋 Back returns to the book list, and from there to the collections. The reader remembers both where you stopped and which language you were reading in, and carries them between servers.
The board belongs to whoever opened it. Anyone else pressing its buttons gets a private note rather than moving your page, so two people reading in the same channel never interrupt each other.
Searching
/sunnah search finds narrations by what they say. Search intention or charity and you get the matches ranked by relevance, each with a short preview showing the matching words in context. Pick one from the dropdown to open it in the reader, where Prev and Next then walk its collection normally.
Search covers the English text across all 17 collections at once. Quoted phrases work, and so does excluding a word with a leading minus.
Three things that look like faults and are not
Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim show no grading. That is correct rather than missing — within the tradition their authenticity is definitional, so no grade is quoted for them.
Sunan ad-Darimi is Arabic only. No English translation of it exists in the source, so the reader shows the Arabic and says so plainly rather than leaving an empty space.
Mishkat al-Masabih is graded almost entirely in Arabic. Those gradings are shown in Arabic rather than hidden, so a narration that has been graded never reads as ungraded.