Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic)

com.alwa7i.bayanPublished by bayan.alwa7i.comOfficial publisherv1.0.1Updated Oct 31, 2026

Hadith with grades and takhrij, Qur'an verses with tafsir, narrators and articles, in Arabic.

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Overview

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Remote MCP server for Bayan, an Arabic Islamic encyclopedia: search and retrieve hadiths with grades and takhrij, Qur'an verses with tafsir, narrators and…

What you can do
  • Search Bayan for verses, hadiths and articles containing given Arabic words, with links to the site
  • Fetch a hadith by book and number or by sequence id, with text, grade, takhrij, narrators and related articles
  • Fetch a Qur'an verse by surah and ayah, with passages of tafsir from classical books
  • Look up a hadith narrator by name, with his page link and related articles
  • List published articles and answers newest first, and read one article in full by its slug
When to use it
Useful when an assistant needs to answer Arabic-language questions about hadith, Qur'anic verses and their tafsir, narrators, or Bayan's articles, and should cite the source page. Best for research-style lookups where the user wants the site link to verify each item.
Requirements
A remote streamable HTTP endpoint at bayan.alwa7i.com; no package, account, API key or environment variable is declared. Network access is required, and results are in Arabic.
Before you install
Content is Arabic only, so answers will be in Arabic. The server instructs assistants to cite Bayan with each item's link and not to present a grade or takhrij that is not in the result; treat grades as the site's data rather than independent verification. All tools are read-only lookups.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.alwa7i.bayan%2Fbayan/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bayan-islamic-encyclopedia-arabic": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

6

get_hadith

حديث

A hadith by book and its number as cited (e.g. Sahih al-Bukhari 1 = «إنما الأعمال بالنيات»), or by `seq` from a search result or a site link: its text, grade, takhrij (where known), narrators, related Bayan articles and the link to its page.

Parametersseqbookrequirednumber

get_verse

آية وتفسيرها

A Qur'an verse by surah and ayah number, with passages of its tafsir from the classical books and the link to its page.

Parametersayahrequiredsurahrequired

get_narrator

راوٍ

A hadith narrator by name: the link to his page on Bayan (his grade in the books of jarh wa ta'dil) and related articles.

Parametersnamerequired

list_articles

مقالات البيان

Bayan's published articles and answers, newest first, with links (paged).

Parameterspagecategory

get_article

مقالة

One Bayan article by its slug (from list_articles or search): full text and link.

Parametersslugrequired

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.1LatestOct 31, 2026

Score

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