Isnad is a companion for the Qurʾān, the prayer and everyday practice — a Qurʾān reader with recitation, step-by-step guides to wudu and the prayer, prayer times and the qibla, duʿāʾ by occasion, and a hadith and sunnah library — built by one developer. There is no support desk and no ticket system; there is an email address that is read.
Email: jadbader7@gmail.com — please put "Isnad" in the subject line.
Useful things to include: your iOS version, your iPhone or iPad model, the corpus version (Settings → Sources & Methodology), and what you were looking at when it went wrong.
Report something the app got wrong
This is the most valuable message you can send, and it has its own path in the app rather than an email address.
On an āyah, on a hadith, and on the fabrication shelf, the actions sheet has Report an error. The app composes a report that already contains the passage, its locator and its source, so the correction can be checked against the same text you were reading. Then Copy the report or Send it somewhere — the app hands it to your own share sheet; it sends nothing by itself. Mail it to the address above.
For a sunnah entry or a duʿāʾ, which have no Report button yet, use Share and add what is wrong.
An optional email field is there only so you can be told what happened to the report. Leave it blank and the report contains no reply address. If you send it by email, your mail service includes the sender information it normally uses.
Corrections to the Arabic, to a locator, to an English explanation, or to a claim the app makes about a source are all in scope, and so is "this reads as though it is telling me a ruling". That last one is a defect in this app.
Things that are deliberate, not bugs
Some of the most common questions are about things the app is not doing on purpose. The short explanations below describe the choices behind the app:
- The explanations carry a "Draft" mark. They are unreviewed drafts — tap the mark and it says so in full: draft, pending scholarly review. That is the honest thing to say about them until a named scholar with a stated scope has checked them. It disappears row by row as that happens, not all at once.
- The hadith and the duʿās are in Arabic, with no English translation. A reviewed English translation cleared for this release has not been added. The app does not write its own translations of these passages.
- No gradings (ṣaḥīḥ / ḍaʿīf) are displayed. No grading column has yet passed the app's check against the named scholar's published edition. A grade appears only after that source verification.
- The guides do not tell you which school to follow. How to make wudu and How to pray describe the actions and quote the reports they come from. Where the schools differ — how much of the head is wiped, where the hands rest — the step says that they differ and does not pick. Ask a teacher or your mosque which to follow.
- Only a little transliteration. The fixed phrases of the prayer, al-Fātiḥah and al-Ikhlāṣ are spelled out in Latin letters in the prayer guide, for someone who cannot read Arabic yet. The rest of the Qurʾān is not: transliteration encodes tajwīd rather than spelling, its readers cannot detect errors in it, and no cleanly licensed one exists.
- Recitation needs a connection. The app bundles no audio. Each verse is streamed from Islamic Network (alquran.cloud) as you listen, for seven reciters — the ones whose recording matches the word-by-word timings exactly — and nothing is saved. Turn it off under Settings → Recitation and the app makes no network request at all.
- One modern English translation, six older ones. The translation by Wahiduddin Khan and Farida Khanam is included because its publisher, Goodword Books, prints "This translation of the Quran is copyright free" in its own edition. It is in copyright and is recorded as such, not as public domain. Pickthall (1930), Sale, Rodwell, Palmer, Keyzer (Dutch) and Sablukov (Russian) are public domain. Other modern translations are not, and no permission has been granted for them.
- Prayer times are calculated, not announced. They are worked out on your device from the position of the sun, by the method you choose. Your mosque's timetable may differ by a few minutes; follow the mosque.
About this resource
A research and personal-study resource. Not fiqh, not fatwa. A single report is not a ruling. For a ruling on your own situation, ask a qualified scholar.
Privacy
Your reading data and location stay on your device. Isnad has no account, ads, analytics or tracking SDK. Recitation streams come from Islamic Network, which sees your IP address and the reciter and verse requested; streaming can be switched off. Optional source links open external websites. See the privacy policy for the full policy.