Ahkam101 is an AI assistant built on one corpus and one corpus only: the published rulings of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani. Think of it as an Ayatollah Sistani AI in the practical sense — a way to ask Sistani's published rulings in plain language, in English, Arabic, Farsi, or Urdu, and get an answer drawn from his official works, with a citation to the exact book and ruling so you can verify it yourself.
Most AI chatbots answer religious questions from general training data, which mixes schools of thought and invents references. Ahkam101 works differently: it is a retrieval system over 49,636 indexed passages from 18 official books — including Minhaj al-Salihin, Tawdih al-Masail Jameh, and Islamic Laws — plus 6,500+ answered questions from the sistani.org Q&A archive. The AI is constrained to what those sources say. If the corpus does not contain a relevant ruling, it says so rather than inventing one.
Every answer carries references to the specific source it was drawn from — a book name with a page or ruling number, such as Islamic Laws, page 42. Before an answer reaches you, a validation layer checks that each citation actually appears in the retrieved sources; anything that cannot be traced to a real passage is removed. The full pipeline is documented openly on the methodology page.
Ayatollah Sistani's rulings are published in Arabic, Persian, and English. Ahkam101 searches all three at once, so a ruling is found in whichever language it was originally published — then answered in yours. You can ask in English, Arabic, Farsi, or Urdu.
Yes. Ahkam101 is an AI assistant that answers questions exclusively from the published rulings of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani. It retrieves from 49,636 indexed passages across 18 official books and 6,500+ sistani.org Q&A entries, and every answer cites the specific source it came from.
For a new religious inquiry (istifta), the official channel is sistani.org, where his office answers questions directly. If your question is already covered by his published rulings — as most everyday fiqh questions are — Ahkam101 lets you search those rulings instantly in natural language and see the exact cited source, in English, Arabic, Farsi, or Urdu.
The right tool depends on what you need. If you follow Ayatollah Sistani and want answers grounded strictly in his published rulings, Ahkam101 is built for exactly that: a single-marja corpus, retrieval from the official Arabic, Persian, and English source texts, and a verifiable citation on every answer so you can check it yourself.
You should not take any AI's word on religious matters — which is why Ahkam101 is designed around verifiability rather than trust. It does not issue fatwas or use the model's general knowledge: it retrieves Ayatollah Sistani's published rulings, quotes them, and validates each citation against the retrieved source before showing it. For matters of consequence, confirm with your marja's office or a qualified scholar.
Ahkam101 is an Ayatollah Sistani AI in the practical sense: an assistant that lets you ask Sistani's published rulings in natural language and read the exact ruling that answers your question. It is not the Ayatollah, nor his office, and it does not issue new rulings. It retrieves what he has already published and cites the source, so you can confirm it against sistani.org.
No. Ahkam101 is an independent educational platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the office of Sayyid al-Sistani. All content is derived from his publicly published works and sistani.org.
You can ask in English, Arabic, Farsi, or Urdu, and the answer comes back in your language. The underlying corpus is retrieved in its three original publication languages — Arabic, Persian, and English — so a ruling is found in whichever language it was published.
Ahkam101 is an educational assistant, not a marjaʿ, nor a substitute for one. Answers are generated from published rulings of Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani and may contain errors. For matters of consequence, please confirm with your marjaʿ's office or a qualified scholar. Ahkam101 is not affiliated with the office of Sayyid al-Sistani.