Request for API access: Ahdil Butt

[ahdilButt]

• Please tell us about yourself (include an email address):

I'm Ahdil, a developer building a non-commercial Islamic research and education tool. It uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to help users explore Quran, Hadith, Tafsir, and Fiqh sources with proper scholarly citations. email: acadahdil998@gmail.com

• Your purpose in using this API:

Building a local ChromaDB corpus of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim for semantic search. The pipeline retrieves relevant hadiths to answer user questions, always citing the source (collection, book, hadith number). This is a personal/educational project, not commercial.

• API rate limits:

  • Maximum requests per second: 5-10 (conservative — only needed for initial one-time data ingestion)
  • Maximum requests per day: 5,000 (to complete ingestion within a few days)

• Is your use case better served by having an offline dump of hadith data or programmatic API access?

An offline data dump would actually be ideal for our use case. We only need a one-time bulk download of Bukhari and Muslim (English + Arabic, with grading metadata). We would not need ongoing API access after the initial ingestion. If an offline dump is available, we would strongly prefer that.

• What are the languages in which would you like hadith data?

English and Arabic.

• What programming language will your API client be in?

Python.