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Terms of Service

The rules for using Shamela Agent and this site.

Last updated 25 October 2026

These terms cover Shamela Agent (the app) and shamelaagent.takhrijhadithlab.my (the site), provided by Takhrij Hadith Lab (“we”). By installing or using the app you agree to them.

Independence

Shamela Agent is an independent, third-party add-on. It is not made, endorsed, sponsored or supported by Maktabah Shamela (المكتبة الشاملة) or its owners, nor by Anthropic or OpenAI. Maktabah Shamela, Claude, ChatGPT and related names belong to their owners and are used here only to describe what Shamela Agent works with.

What you need

A lawful copy of Maktabah Shamela on a supported computer, and your own Claude or ChatGPT plan or API key. You must follow the terms of Anthropic or OpenAI; your use counts against your plan, or is billed to your API account, with them.

Your licence

When you pay the one-time fee, you get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use Shamela Agent on the number of computers your plan covers (1, 3 or 5) that you own or control, with the updates we publish. You may not resell, rent or redistribute it, or get around any licence check.

Answers are not fatwas

Answers are generated by AI and can be wrong, incomplete or attributed to the wrong source. Check each answer against the cited pages before relying on it. Shamela Agent is a research aid; it does not issue fatwas and does not replace qualified scholars.

Changes to Shamela

To appear inside Shamela, the installer adds files to your Shamela installation and keeps a backup of what it changes. Removing Shamela Agent restores Shamela. We are not responsible for Shamela itself or its updates.

An answer you share is public to anyone with the link until you stop sharing it. Share only what you have the right to share. We may remove shared content that breaks the law or these terms.

Updates

We may add, change or remove features. Automatic updates install only when you restart Shamela.

No warranty

The app and site are provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for Shamela Agent.

Ending

You may stop using Shamela Agent and remove it at any time. We may end your licence if you break these terms.

Law

These terms are governed by the laws of Malaysia.

Changes and contact

We’ll post changes here with a new date. Questions: support@takhrijhadithlab.my.

Picture credits

Pictures on this site come from Wikimedia Commons, each used under the licence shown.

  • Ottoman tile panel with tulips, early 17th centuryThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  • Illuminated frontispiece of the Hamadan Qur’anNational Library of Egypt (Masahif Rasid 72) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  • Ottoman tile panel with rosettes, 16th centuryThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  • Umayyad Mosque, Damascus (demo answer)Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  • Astrolabe (demo answer)Khalili Collections · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO · Wikimedia Commons
  • Frankincense (demo answer)snotch · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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