Silsila publishes true stories from Islamic history — prophets, companions, scholars, and the events the tradition actually records. That only means something if you can see where each claim came from. This page is the whole process, including the parts most sites leave out.
Silsila Stories is an independent publisher, not an institution and not a school of law. Articles carry the byline Silsila Research Desk because they are assembled by one small team working to the process below, rather than signed by a scholar. We are not issuing fatwa and we do not adjudicate between madhabs. Where the tradition itself disagrees, the article says so instead of picking a side quietly.
If a question needs a ruling rather than a history, take it to a qualified scholar. What we can honestly offer is the record: what happened, who reported it, and how strong the report is.
Every article is built from named primary and classical sources, not from memory and not from other websites. In practice that means:
Each published article lists its sources on the page itself — open the Sources panel on any article and you will see the exact works and numbers the piece was built from.
Every article carries a grade describing the strength of the material behind it. The library as it stands today:
| Grade | Articles | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Sahih | 70 | Built on reports graded rigorously authentic in the collections cited. |
| Sourced | 8 | Every claim is traced to a named classical source, without a single hadith grading standing behind the whole piece. |
Where a report is weak, disputed, or famous but unreliable, the article says so in the body rather than burying it. A story being well known is not evidence that it happened.
We use AI assistance in producing this site, and we would rather tell you plainly than have you guess. Research, drafting and translation are done with AI tools under human direction. What AI is not allowed to do here is supply the facts: citations are fetched from the verified sources named above and checked against them, never generated from a model's memory, because a fluent invented reference is the exact failure mode these tools have. Every article passes a human review gate before it is published, and cover images are generated art, not photographs of historical events.
Urdu versions are translated from the reviewed English article and carry the same sources.
We do, and the fix is public. Corrections to anything already published are logged with their date on the corrections page, rather than edited away silently. If you find an error — a citation, a wording, a fact — tell us through the Join page and we will check it against the sources and correct it if you are right.
Because this history is usually delivered either as a dry reference or as a story with the sources stripped out, and both lose something. Silsila tries to tell it as the gripping thing it is while showing its working. There are 78 articles and a growing library of long-form stories on that basis.