Ilm

What it does

Ilm provides a sophisticated interface for deep semantic search across Islamic scholarship. It connects AI agents to a vast corpus of Quranic verses with tafsir and over 34,000 hadiths, enabling complex theological research and source verification through GraphRAG and hybrid search.

Tools

• search_hadith: Perform full-text or semantic search for hadiths.
• search_quran: Find Quranic verses using semantic or keyword search.
• get_hadith: Retrieve specific hadith content by ID.
• get_chain_graph: Generate visualization data for a hadith's isnad (narrator chain).
• analyze_family_mustalah: Analyze narrator families and chain grading (sahih/hasan/da'eef).
• ask_unified: Natural language Q&A grounded in both Quran and Hadith.
• get_ayah_tafsir: Retrieve classical exegesis for a specific ayah.

Installation

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ilm": {
      "command": "/abs/path/to/ilm/target/debug/hadith",
      "args": ["mcp", "--db-path", "/abs/path/to/ilm/db_data"]
    }
  }
}

Supported hosts

• Claude Desktop
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• VS Code (via Continue)