turath

Cited ibaroh — raw, sourced passages — from a corpus of 7,872 classical Islamic books (kitab turats: fiqh, usul, hadith commentary, tafsir, and more), pulled through the Sahifah API.

You query in Indonesian, English, or Arabic; the corpus is searched in Arabic; you get back the original passage — not a paraphrase — with its full citation: book, author, table-of-contents path, juz, and page. A mu'tabar filter keeps results to works recognized as authoritative in the tradition.

This repo ships three ways to use it, all built on the same read-only, revocable Sahifah researcher API key (prefixed bm_):

1. A Claude Code plugin bundling the /turath skill and a remote MCP connector.

2. A /turath skill you can drop into any Claude Code project on its own.

3. A remote MCP server (turath_search, get_ibaroh) for any MCP-speaking agent — plus the raw HTTP API underneath it.

Adab of naql (the ethic of transmission). Everything here surfaces what the Sahifah corpus indexed; it is not a substitute for opening the actual kitab. Every result ends with a reminder to verify the quotation against the primary source before relying on it — especially for anything bound for a fatwa, an argument, or published writing. Where a passage looks truncated or OCR-garbled, treat it as uncertain. Where the fuqaha differ, note the khilaf rather than picking a side. Allahu a'lam.

Getting an API key

Sign in at sahifah.online and create a key from the /api-keys dashboard. Keys are read-only, rate-limited, capped per user, and revocable at any time. The key is never stored or logged by anything in this repo — it is read from your environment or passed per-request.

export SAHIFAH_API_KEY=bm_your_key_here        # bash / zsh
$env:SAHIFAH_API_KEY = "bm_your_key_here"      # PowerShell

Related MCP server: hadith-mcp

1. Install as a Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add dihannahdi/turath
/plugin install turath@sahifah

This registers the /turath skill and connects the remote MCP server (https://sahifah.online/mcp). Set SAHIFAH_API_KEY in your environment first so the MCP connector can authenticate (see .mcp.json).

2. Use the /turath skill directly

The skill lives in skills/turath/ and drives a stdlib-only Python script — no dependencies to install.

# search for candidate passages
python skills/turath/scripts/turath.py search "hukum zakat fitrah dengan uang" --max 10

# restrict to mu'tabar (authoritative) kitab only
python skills/turath/scripts/turath.py search "penyakit hasad dalam hati" --mutabar-only

# fetch a full passage by the book_id / toc_id printed above
python skills/turath/scripts/turath.py ibaroh 123 456

See skills/turath/SKILL.md for the full command reference and the adab of naql the skill carries through its output.

3. Remote MCP server

The server is a stateless Streamable HTTP MCP server exposing two tools:

• turath_search — search the corpus; returns each passage's citation, book/author, TOC path, page/juz, madhhab, era, and relevance score.

• get_ibaroh — given a book_id/toc_id from a search, fetch the full passage text and complete citation.

Add it as a Claude connector (or with claude mcp add):

claude mcp add turath --transport http https://sahifah.online/mcp \
  --header "X-Sahifah-Api-Key: bm_your_key_here"

The server never hardcodes or stores a key. For each request it resolves the key to forward from, in order: an Authorization: Bearer <key> header, an X-Sahifah-Api-Key / X-Api-Key header, or its own SAHIFAH_API_KEY env var (single-tenant fallback). The key is never logged.

Self-hosting the MCP server

The TypeScript source is in src/ and is what runs behind https://sahifah.online/mcp. To run your own instance:

npm install
npm run build      # tsc -> dist/
npm start          # node dist/index.js   (listens on PORT, default 8795)

Put a reverse proxy in front for TLS and never expose the raw port publicly. See the comments in src/index.ts and ecosystem.config.cjs (PM2) for the deployment shape. Configuration lives in .env (see .env.example): SAHIFAH_API_BASE is fixed at startup and never taken from request input.

Underlying HTTP API

Both the skill and the MCP server sit on the public Sahifah API:

• POST /api/v1/search — { query, max_results?, mutabar_only?, include_ai? }, auth via X-API-Key. include_ai defaults to false — raw ibaroh first.

• POST /api/v1/passage — { book_id, toc_id } → full passage + citation.

Layout

turath/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   ├── plugin.json        # plugin manifest
│   └── marketplace.json   # single-plugin marketplace (name: sahifah)
├── .mcp.json              # remote MCP connector (auto-discovered by the plugin)
├── skills/turath/
│   ├── SKILL.md           # the /turath skill
│   └── scripts/turath.py  # stdlib-only client
├── src/                   # TypeScript MCP server (Express + @modelcontextprotocol/sdk)
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
├── ecosystem.config.cjs   # PM2
└── .env.example

Validate before publishing

claude plugin validate .

License

MIT — see LICENSE.