Know forty Hadith Shareef by heart.

Forty short Hadith Shareef of our Beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his Noble Family - taught phrase by phrase with the reciter's voice, then kept in your heart the way huffaz always have.

مَثَلُ الَّذِي يَذْكُرُ رَبَّهُ وَالَّذِي لاَ يَذْكُرُ مَثَلُ الحَيِّ وَالْمَيِّتِ

Flashcards assume you already know it.

Most memorization apps are review engines. They show you a card and ask whether you remembered it. That only works if you already learned the text somewhere else - which is the hard part, and the part they leave to you.

This one starts there. It takes a Hadith Shareef you have never seen and teaches it to you a phrase at a time, in the reciter's voice, until you can recite the whole of it from memory. Only then does it pass into your daily revision, so that what you have learned is never lost.

The method huffaz have always used

Your day has three parts. The app keeps track of which Hadith Shareef belong in each one, so you open it and simply do what is in front of you.

Sabaq

Your new lesson: one Hadith Shareef a day, learned phrase by phrase. Just one. That restraint is what makes it stay with you.

Sabqi

This week's Hadith Shareef come back every day, until reciting them takes no effort at all.

Manzil

Older Hadith Shareef return every so often, spaced further apart the better you know them - so nothing you have learned quietly slips away.

How you learn one

Each Hadith Shareef is divided into short phrases. You work through one phrase at a time, and each step asks a little more of your memory than the last.

  1. 1

    Listen

    Hear the phrase on its own, as many times as you like. Slow it down or put it on a loop if it is giving you trouble.

  2. 2

    Say it with the reciter

    Recite along out loud, a few times over, until your tongue knows the shape of the words.

  3. 3

    Recite from memory

    The words fade away a few at a time - first blanks, then just the opening letters, then nothing. Tap any word to bring it back if you get stuck.

  4. 4

    Join the phrases

    After each new phrase you recite everything from the beginning up to where you are. The joins between phrases are exactly where recall breaks, so those are what get drilled.

  5. 5

    The whole Hadith Shareef

    Recite it with nothing on the screen, and grade yourself honestly. From then on it comes back for review, and you keep it for good.

It lives on your phone

Add it to your home screen and it opens like any other app - no app store, nothing to download. It is built for a phone first, because that is where a few minutes of memorizing actually happens: after salah, in the car, before bed.

On iPhone, open it in Safari and tap Share, then "Add to Home Screen". On Android, tap the menu in Chrome and choose "Install app".

Start with one Hadith Shareef.

One a day is the whole method. Make an account and learn your first one now - it takes a few minutes, and it is free.

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