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Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) MCP Server

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Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Hadith with grades and takhrij, Qur'an verses with tafsir, narrators and articles, in Arabic.

Uptime history 10 days of history
10 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
89 of 89 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
391 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add bayan --transport http https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.bayan]
url = "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bayan": {
      "url": "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "bayan": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

article
get_article
One Bayan article by its slug (from list_articles or search): full text and link.
articles
list_articles
Bayan's published articles and answers, newest first, with links (paged).
hadith
get_hadith
A hadith by book and its number as cited (e.g. Sahih al-Bukhari 1 = «إنما الأعمال بالنيات»), or by `seq` from a search result or a site link: its text, grade, takhrij (where known), narrators, related Bayan articles and the link to its page.
narrator
get_narrator
A hadith narrator by name: the link to his page on Bayan (his grade in the books of jarh wa ta'dil) and related articles.
search
search
Search Bayan (Arabic Islamic encyclopedia) for verses, hadiths (Sabil al-Rashad, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim) and articles containing the given Arabic words. Returns a few of each with links to the site.
verse
get_verse
A Qur'an verse by surah and ayah number, with passages of its tafsir from the classical books and the link to its page.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp streamable-http answering 501 ms 0 min ago

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Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_article, get_hadith, get_narrator, get_verse, list_articles, search. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 89 of 89 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 391 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic)?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) need an API key?
No. Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic)?
It answers our handshake in 391 ms on average, which is faster than 32% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.