Iran Launches AI‑Powered 'Chat with Hadith' Tool to Enhance Islamic Research

IQNA – Iran’s Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences has unveiled an AI-based “Chat with Hadith” platform to help scholars and students search and analyze Islamic narrations more effectively.

The center’s director, Hojat-ol‑Islam Mohammad‑Hossein Bahrami, announced on Monday that the new tool is the first step toward a comprehensive “Smart Islamic Research Dashboard.”

Developed by the Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences (also known as Noor), the system coincides with Eid al‑Ghadir, and is now available to researchers and academics across Iran.

Bahrami explained that the platform uses semantic search combined with deep textual analysis. When users submit questions, it searches a database of some 400,000 hadiths from 200 Shia sources—previously accessible via the Jami‘ al‑Ahadith database—and retrieves relevant narrations. It then delivers an analytical response, linking each hadith to its original digital text and referencing the Noor Digital Library.

Key features include AI-driven understanding of user queries, mapping contemporary issues to hadith concepts, and providing a bibliography of cited narrations alongside related texts. It also connects each result to its full hadith record in the Jami‘ al‑Ahadith system and the Noor library.

Bahrami described the platform as a groundbreaking tool for hadith recovery and analysis. He emphasized that its advanced features mark “a revolutionary step” for researchers and lovers of Ahl al‑Bayt (AS) knowledge. Interested users can access the system at chattohadith.inoor.ir.

The trial platform is accessible in Arabic and Persian languages. 

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