بِسْمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْم

تهدف هذه المدونه إلى خدمة الباحثين في حوسبة علوم السنّة النبويّة الشريفة

Leeds University and King Saud University (LK) Hadith Corpus

• Bilingual parallel corpus of English-Arabic Islamic Hadith
• Extracted from the six canonical Hadith books
• The corpus contains 39,038 annotated Hadiths that comprises more than 10 million tokens
• Each component of the Hadith is extracted and allocated to a specific column:
  1. Chapter_Number
  2. Chapter_English
  3. Chapter_Arabic
  4. Section_Number
  5. Section_English
  6. Section_Arabic
  7. Hadith_number
  8. English_Hadith
  9. English_Isnad
  10. English_Matn
  11. Arabic_Hadith
  12. Arabic_Isnad
  13. Arabic_Matn
  14. Arabic_Comment
  15. English_Grade
  16. Arabic_Grade

To open and view the csv files, DO NOT use 'Excel' because it will not show the correct structure. We have tried the 'Numbers' app on Mac and 'Google sheets' on windows and they work properly.

To extract information (columns) from the LK Hadith corpus, use the starter code provided in {starter.py}.

Altammami, S , Atwell, E and Alsalka. 'The Arabic–English Parallel Corpus of Authentic Hadith'. In: International Journal on Islamic Applications in Computer Science And Technology - IJASAT. International Conference on Islamic Applications in Computer Science and Technologies - IMAN 2019, 27-28 Dec 2019.

link to paper

Bukhari folder was manually checked and is considered the gold standard of this corpus, while the other books(folders) were annotated automatically using a Hadith segmentation tool that segments the Isnad from the Matn with 92% accuracy.

For further information about the automatic annotation refer to the paper:

Altammami, S., Atwell, E., & Alsalka, A.(2020) 'Constructing a Bilingual Hadith Corpus Using a Segmentation Tool'. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). Marseille, 11–16 May 2020. pages 3383–3391

link to paper

If you would like to submit corrections or comments about the corpus please send an email to [email protected]