الجليس الصالح

Al-Jalees Al-Saleh is a comprehensive Islamic app that brings together the Holy Quran, Tafsir, Hadith, and Seerah in one modern and unified experience. It is an expanded and enhanced continuation of the Hadith Encyclopedia and the Seerah Encyclopedia, among the earliest Islamic apps launched on the Apple App Store since 2009.

One companion for the Muslim's day: prayer times, the Mushaf with its tafsir, the books of Hadith and Seerah, the adhkar and the tasbih. No ads, no subscriptions, no tracking — and most of it works with no connection at all.

Please note: the interface and the entire library are in Arabic.

◆ PRAYER TIMES & QIBLA

• Times for your location with seven calculation methods — Umm al-Qura, Qatar Calendar House, Muslim World League, Karachi, Egyptian Authority, ISNA and the European Council — and both Asr opinions
• The method follows the country you are in, and the choice stays yours
• Per-prayer minute adjustments and iqama times
• Alerts before the adhan, ten minutes before the iqama, and at it
• A qibla compass, and an augmented-reality prayer mat that turns you towards it
• A Home Screen widget, and an Apple Watch app

◆ THE MUSHAF

• The whole Quran as printed pages, with every verse tappable
• Eleven tafsirs: Ibn Kathir, al-Tabari, al-Qurtubi, al-Baghawi, al-Sa'di, al-Waseet, al-Mukhtasar, al-Muyassar, al-Suddi, Tanweer al-Miqbas, and al-Siraj on the Quran's rare words
• An English translation of the meanings, and word-by-word grammatical analysis (i'rab)
• Twenty-seven reciters, with surahs you can download and listen to offline
• Repeat a range of verses, for memorising
• A khatma: choose how long it should take, and it advances as you read
• Bookmarks and coloured highlights

◆ HADITH

• Twelve collections: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Musnad Ahmad, Muwatta Malik, Sunan al-Darimi, al-Daraqutni, al-Mustadrak, and Riyad al-Salihin
• Close to eighty thousand hadiths in their books and chapters, with bookmarks

◆ SEERAH

• Twenty books: Zad al-Ma'ad, Ibn Hisham, Ibn Kathir, 'Uyun al-Athar, al-Raheeq al-Makhtum, al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya, and al-Waqidi's Maghazi
• A reader whose pages turn like a book's, in a typeface and size you choose

◆ ADHKAR & TASBIH

• Morning, evening, after-prayer, sleeping and waking adhkar, each with its count and its source
• Add your own, with their counts
• A tasbih with targets of 33, 99, 100 or none at all; it keeps your completed rounds, runs on Apple Watch, and stays in step with it

◆ ISLAMIC OCCASIONS

• Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr, both Eids, the Day of Arafah, Ashura, al-Isra wal-Mi'raj and the Hijri new year
• A monthly Hijri calendar with the occasion days marked
• A widget for the next one

◆ IT FOLLOWS YOU

• iCloud sync for your bookmarks, your own adhkar, your settings and where you stopped reading
• Search across the Quran, the Hadith and the Seerah
• Light and dark, and a choice of Arabic typefaces

Note: occasion dates are computed with the Umm al-Qura calendar, and may differ by a day or two with the sighting of the moon in each country.

The biggest update in a year: four new sections, truer prayer times, and a Mushaf that gets out of the way.

◆ NEW

• Adhkar — morning, evening, after-prayer, sleeping and waking, counted with a tap, each with its number and its source. And add your own, with their counts.
• Tasbih — on iPhone and on Apple Watch, with phrases you edit as you like, targets of 33, 99, 100 or none at all, and a tally of completed rounds. It now follows you across your devices.
• Khatma — choose how long it should take; it advances on its own as you read, and tells you where you stand.
• Islamic occasions — Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr, both Eids, Arafah, Ashura, al-Isra wal-Mi'raj and the Hijri new year, on a monthly Hijri calendar with their days marked, and a widget for the next one.
• Qatar Calendar House added as a calculation method, chosen automatically for those in Qatar.
• Mushaf — zoom the page, tap to put the chrome away and read on white, copy and share a verse, and recitation that keeps playing with the screen off.

◆ TRUER TIMES

• The app tells you when it has changed the calculation method to follow the country you moved to, instead of changing it in silence.
• At high latitudes where the sun does not set, times are taken from the nearest land where it does — and the app says so.
• The Asr opinion and the Ramadan Isha interval are now actually applied.
• Tomorrow's Fajr appears after Isha, as it should.
• Notifications come through Focus, carry the name of your place, and tell you when they have been turned off.
• The qibla compass and the augmented-reality mat now point at the real qibla.

◆ IMPROVED & FIXED

• The adhkar texts and their attributions were corrected against the app's own sources.
• Search is faster, honours the scope you pick, and forgives differences in Arabic spelling.
• Large text sizes no longer break the layout or cut words off.
• The Seerah reader no longer clips the first or last line of a page.
• The Mushaf no longer crashes on iPad's two-page spread.
• A new, consistent look for the prayer widgets on iPhone and Apple Watch.
• The app warns you when iCloud sync is off, so your bookmarks are not lost.
• Plenty under the surface: a faster start, a lighter screen refresh, and safer saving of your data.