About AMAADOR ISLAM & our sources
AMAADOR ISLAM (baby-steps-islam.com) is a free, gentle guide for new Muslims and anyone curious, made by Youssef AMAADOR in Morocco. It is a personal project, not a fatwa service: for rulings, ask a qualified scholar you trust.
How we handle sources
- Every ayah links to quran.com; every hadith links to its page on sunnah.com with the grade shown there.
- Weak (da'if) or fabricated narrations are not used as evidence. Where graders differ, we say so.
- Numbers (counts of dhikr, dates, army sizes) appear only where an authentic source states them; otherwise they are removed or attributed to the historical source.
- Anything we could not verify carries a visible “needs scholar review” label.
- French and Arabic prose not yet checked by a human translator is marked “translation review pending”.
How content is reviewed
- Written and checked against the linked sources by the AMAADOR ISLAM team (Youssef AMAADOR).
- No qualified scholar has yet reviewed this site as a whole. Until one does, sensitive lessons stay marked “needs scholar review”.
- When a reviewer checks a lesson, we will publish their name (if they agree), the date and exactly what they reviewed.
- We separate four kinds of text: Qur'an (quran.com), hadith (sunnah.com, with grade), historical reports, and our own explanation or reflection.
Evidence panel — site status
- Author
- AMAADOR ISLAM team
- Scholarly reviewer
- Not yet assigned
- Review date
- Pending
- Scope reviewed
- Source links checked; rulings and wording not yet scholar-reviewed
- Translations
- French and Arabic: human review pending
needs scholar review
Credits
Qur'an text, Saheeh International and Hamidullah translations, word-by-word data: quran.com (Quran Foundation). Recitations: everyayah.com. Hadith references: sunnah.com. Fonts: Poppins, Fraunces, Tajawal, Amiri (SIL Open Font License). Recitation-following model: quran-asr-small, a Conformer-CTC model for Qur'an recitation by Abdou (MIT licence), int8 and run locally with onnxruntime-web. Shahada audio: “Shahadah.ogg” by iSurrender, Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 (silence trimmed, volume normalised; the modified file is shared under the same licence).
Corrections
Found a mistake? We will gladly correct it, with thanks. Email youssef@amaador-hse.com with the page link and the issue (a source link helps). Corrections are made on the site; we do not use forms that store your data.