How we check listings

What we are actually claiming

Each listing says that a named masjid follows the Ahlul Hadith maslak. That is a statement about a real institution, made in public. We take it seriously in both directions: listing a masjid that is not Ahlul Hadith misleads the person who travels there, and refusing to list one that is, or removing it wrongly, is unfair to the masjid.

Before anything appears

Anyone may submit a masjid, and many do. A submission is not a listing. It goes into a private queue that only we can see, and it stays there until a person has checked it and recorded how they checked it.

There is no "it looked fine" option. Every published listing carries one of:

Called the masjid

We rang the masjid or a committee member and asked directly.

Visited

Somebody went there.

Confirmed through the Jamiat

A recognised local body confirmed the affiliation.

Known personally

We know the masjid ourselves and can stand behind it.

Confirmed by a trusted local

Somebody we know and can name vouched for it.

The date on every listing

Each listing shows the month it was last checked, rather than a permanent tick. A tick never ages. A date does, and it tells you honestly how fresh the information is. Anything we have not re-checked in eighteen months goes back into our queue.

Salah timings are different

Timings are optional, and where they exist they usually come from people who pray at that masjid rather than from us. They still pass through the same approval before appearing. Every set of timings shows when it was last confirmed, and timings older than a year are marked as such and should be checked with the masjid before you rely on them.

If you think a listing is wrong

Every listing has a link to report a problem. Some things about how we handle those are worth stating plainly, because they protect both you and the masjid:

• Reports never remove a listing automatically. Not one report, not fifty. A person decides, every time.
• We never publish reports, or how many a listing has. Publishing either would turn reporting into a scoreboard and invite people to organise against a masjid they dislike.
• A report that a masjid is not Ahlul Hadith is only ever settled by contact. We ring the masjid or its committee. We will not act on a report by itself, however confident it sounds.
• If we remove a listing, we record why and when, so we can answer for it later.

If you run the masjid

If you are the imam or on the committee and want a listing corrected, updated or removed, contact us and say so. A request from the masjid itself carries more weight than anything else on this page, and we will act on it quickly.

We are independent

This site is not affiliated with any organisation unless a particular listing says so. Where a listing mentions a Jamiat affiliation, that applies to that masjid and is not an endorsement of this site by anyone.