These terms cover Shamela Agent (the app) and shamelaagent.com (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
Whether you use the free plan or pay the one-time fee, you get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use Shamela Agent on computers you own or control, up to the number your licence covers, with the updates we publish. You may not resell, rent or redistribute it, change or tamper with it, or get around any licence check, yourself or through another person or an AI tool.
What you pay for
Shamela Agent is software. Any fee you pay is for the app, its research tools and the services that run it, such as updates, licence checks and sharing. It is not a payment for Maktabah Shamela or its books.
Maktabah Shamela is free from its owners at shamela.ws, and its books stay under their owners’ terms. Shamela Agent doesn’t include, copy, sell or redistribute them: when you ask a question, it reads the copy you installed yourself, on your own computer. Answers quote short passages with their source.
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.
Shared links
An answer you share is public to anyone with the link until you stop sharing it, or for one year. A Space page you share opens for the people you give its link to until you stop sharing it or the link expires. Share only what you have the right to share, including quotes from books. 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: [email protected].
Picture credits
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons are used under the licence shown.
- 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