The mother source
The critically edited digital editions published by the Ahlulbayt Library — the largest digitization project of the Imami heritage — in their original structural format, preserving the page numbering of the reference print editions, their editors’ footnotes and their book cards. Where no text edition exists, a scanned edition is used and every result from it is explicitly labelled as such.
Covered disciplines
Hadith
The canonical collections and compilations of Shia hadith across their strata.Jurisprudence & its principles
Core texts, commentaries, glosses and lesson transcripts.Exegesis & Quranic sciences
Narrative and inferential commentaries.Theology
The foundational works of doctrine and disputation.Biographical evaluation (Rijal)
Rijal works, catalogues and hadith terminology.Ethics, history, supplications, lexicons
And the library’s other disciplines, each with its label.Structural distinction within a single book
- Body text — the author’s words, the primary retrieval target.
- Editor’s footnotes — merged at their exact anchors, tagged, arriving with their text rather than severed from it.
- Editor’s unanchored remarks — manuscript variants and omissions, tagged separately.
- Commentary blocks — glosses interwoven in some editions, tagged as such.
- Annotated core texts — where one scholar’s text and another’s annotations share a book, each statement is attributed to its own author.
Every book’s card
Each book carries a complete bibliographic card parsed automatically from its source: title, author and death year, editor, edition and print year, publisher, volume, and library classification — available to the researcher through a dedicated tool, so citation precedes quotation.
When a text is absent, the corpus does not invent a substitute — it states the absence.