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title: Cite passages
description: Show where each passage comes from, with its book, author, printed page and link, and quote Qur’an verses and hadiths exactly as returned.
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Every passage the MCP server or the API returns carries what a reader needs to find it in print. Show it wherever you use the text.

## Cite each passage

A citation names the book, the author and the printed volume and page, and links to the page:

> فيض القدير — عبد الرؤوف المناوي، ج 4، ص 233

> Fayd al-Qadir — Abd al-Rauf al-Munawi, vol. 4, p. 233

- **`title`** is that line, ready to show, in the language you asked for with `locale`.
- **`url`** opens the printed page in the Turath reader, so a reader can check the text in its context. Link the citation to it.
- **`book`**, **`author`** and **`pages`** hold the same details as separate fields, for your own format.

When a passage spans two pages, `title` and `url` name the first; `pages` lists them all.

## Quote the text as returned

- Show passage text as the API returns it, in Arabic, right to left. Don't shorten a quotation without marking where text is left out.
- If you translate a passage, say that the translation is yours or your app's, and keep the Arabic beside it.
- An AI app should quote passages rather than retell them, and should cite every passage it relies on.

## Qur’an verses and hadiths

Qur’an verses and hadiths appear inside passages, in the wording of the book that quotes them. Never alter, complete or paraphrase them: quote that wording exactly and cite the passage it came from. Don't complete a verse or a hadith from memory or join wording from different books.

## What a citation shows

A citation shows where text came from. It doesn't show that an answer built on it is correct, and a passage can be one scholar's view among several. Say so in your app where readers might take an answer as a ruling.