Request for API access: Soufiyane

[soufiiyane]

Please tell us about yourself:
Soufiyane Ait Moulay, Cloud/DevOps and AI Engineer building an Islamic knowledge platform.
Contact: soufiyane.aitmoulay@gmail.com

Your purpose in using this API:
We are building an AI-powered hadith assistant that allows users to search for hadith by meaning in natural language (semantic search), retrieve the full chain of narration (sanad), and explore narrator information. Rather than keyword matching, we generate vector embeddings from the hadith texts to enable meaning-based retrieval for example, a user asking "what did the Prophet say about honesty in trade" would surface all relevant hadith even without exact keyword matches.

All hadith will be stored in our own vector database, fully attributed to sunnah.com as the original source, with links back to the corresponding pages.

API rate limits:
Not applicable — we are requesting an offline data dump only, not API access. A static dump is a better fit for our use case since we process and index the data locally.

Offline dump vs. API access:
Offline dump only. We need the full hadith dataset to generate embeddings and build a local vector search index. API access is not required.

Languages needed:
Arabic and English.

Programming language:
TypeScript (Node.js) and Python.

[AbdullahAlhariri]

Thank you brother for submitting your request. I'm just afraid your request might get stuck in the same backlog of requests that have been accumulating for years in this repository.

So, we've created a issue post about this, and I've made two suggestions. Would you like to take a look at them and share your opinion?

#2861