NAH-Hadith-Corpus

Non-authentic Hadith Corpus

• Arabic Hadith corpus

• It contains 452,624 words from different lesser-known Hadith books

• It also included several annotated Hadith books, which help to determine the switch points between the Isnad, the Matan,and the comment to provide a ground truth.

• Some of these books have both Hadiths (authentic and NAH), while others only contain NAH.

• In NAH_Contents.csv file, you will find the list of all Hadith books in this corpus.

• The annotating process was done to determine eight primary features for each Hadith in this corpus:

  1. No.: The Hadith reference number.

  2. Full Hadith: The Hadith as it appears in the book without annotations

  3. Isnad: The chain of narrators.

  4. Matan: The act of the Prophet Muhammad.

  5. Authors Comments: The author describes the authenticity of each Hadith.

  6. Hadith Type: The Hadith Type (Maqtu` مقطوع, Mawquf موقوف and Marfoʻ مرفوع) or Hadith degree (ضعيف, موضوع and so on).

  7. Authenticity: Whether this Hadith is authentic or non-authentic.

  8. Topic: The chapter title.

If you use the NAH corpus, Please cite this paper:

Tarmom T, Atwell E, Alsalka MA. 2020. Non-authentic Hadith Corpus: Design and Methodology. International Journal on Islamic Applications in Computer Science And Technology. 13-19 8.3 http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/155642/