Stories you can trustقصص موثوقة
Short films, reminders and the history of Muslims across Africa, from Isnad Media. The scholars of hadith traced every saying back through each person who carried it. We tell our stories the same way, so you always know who said it and how it reached you.
Our nameلماذا إسناد
Isnād comes from an Arabic root meaning to lean on, or to support. In hadith scholarship it is the chain of people through whom a saying reached us. One narrator heard it from another, all the way back to the Prophet ﷺ.
The scholars studied every person in that chain. Was each narrator honest? Did they remember well? Had they really met the one they quoted? A report was only as strong as its weakest link. We took the name because we want to be held to that standard.
What we’re aboutما نرويه
Mosques, scholars and living traditions across the continent, shared with the world. Tap an arch to watch.
من الحرمين
Moments from Makkah and Madinah
مساجد أفريقيا
From Djenné to Kampala
علماء الساحل
Mali’s scholars and their manuscripts
وجوه الأمة
Real stories, from Africa to the Haramain
تاريخ المسلمين في أفريقيا
From Abyssinia to the Swahili coast
تذكير
Qurʾān and Sunnah, always sourced
From the Haramainمن الحرمين
A waiter in Madinah, reciting Sūrat an-Nūr as he works
From the Haramainمن الحرمين
Masjid al-Ḥarām lit up after dark, its minarets bright and its courtyards full of worshippers
Photo story · Djenné, Maliجينيه، مالي
The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud-brick building on earth. Before the rains, the whole town climbs its walls and re-plasters them by hand.
Masajid of Africaمساجد أفريقيا
In Old Kampala: work began in 1972, it took 35 years to open, and up to 20,000 can pray here
Masajid of Africaمساجد أفريقيا
The khutbah’s call of Āl ʿImrān 3:102, with its source on screen
Masajid of Africaمساجد أفريقيا
The evening crowd on a street beside a masjid
Photos · Addis Ababa, Ethiopiaأديس أبابا، إثيوبيا
In the heart of one of Africa’s biggest open-air markets, a masjid written with the Qurʾān from its dome to its walls.
تحت القبة
Under the dome
Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ, Āyat al-Kursī (al-Baqarah 2:255) and the close of al-Baqarah (2:286), ring within ring
رفوف المصاحف
Within reach
Muṣḥafs shelved in the pillars, beneath the Names of Allah written around the walls
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
Thierno Hady Thiam, Vice-President of the High Islamic Council of Mali, on the city the world knows better than Malians do
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
From Biskra to Gao: Islam reached Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal in the north of Mali before the south
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
How knowledge in Islam is passed on, hand to hand, in the circles of Mali
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
The first word revealed was not “pray” but “read”: the religion begins with knowledge
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
Timbuktu’s manuscripts hold centuries of scholarship. Are they being read?
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
Thierno Hady Thiam on the middle way of the Mālikī school, and what has shifted in his lifetime
From the Haramainمن الحرمين
A waiter in Madinah, reciting Sūrat an-Nūr as he works
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
Thierno Hady Thiam on the middle way of the Mālikī school, and what has shifted in his lifetime
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
Thierno Hady Thiam, Vice-President of the High Islamic Council of Mali, on the city the world knows better than Malians do
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
From Biskra to Gao: Islam reached Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal in the north of Mali before the south
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
How knowledge in Islam is passed on, hand to hand, in the circles of Mali
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
The first word revealed was not “pray” but “read”: the religion begins with knowledge
Scholars of Maliعلماء مالي
Timbuktu’s manuscripts hold centuries of scholarship. Are they being read?
Masajid of Africaمساجد أفريقيا
In Old Kampala: work began in 1972, it took 35 years to open, and up to 20,000 can pray here
Masajid of Africaمساجد أفريقيا
The khutbah’s call of Āl ʿImrān 3:102, with its source on screen
Our expertiseخبراتنا
We produce documentaries, short films and institutional videos for masjids, foundations and organisations, capturing their history, people and impact to a broadcast standard.
We provide communications strategy, donor reporting and reputation management for Islamic foundations, waqf bodies, financial institutions and schools, helping them communicate their work clearly to communities, partners and funders.
We provide professional translation of films, publications, reports and policy documents for institutions, organisations and businesses. Every translation is reviewed for accuracy and cultural context, across Arabic, English, French, Swahili, Somali and Hausa.
We verify religious content, quotes, footage and claims circulating online, tracing them to their original source. This service is available to media houses, platforms and institutions.
We deliver media, communications and storytelling training for religious leaders, Islamic organisations and newsrooms, including accurate reporting on Muslim communities.
We license verified footage of Muslim life across Africa and the Haramain to broadcasters, production companies and cultural institutions.
We develop educational series, short courses and children’s content on Islamic history and heritage in Africa for madrasas, schools and learning platforms.
We produce pilgrim guides, preparation series and branded content for Hajj and Umrah operators, drawing on extensive original footage from Makkah and Madinah.
We design and host gatherings, forums and Ramadan programme series that bring together scholars, institutions and communities around African Islamic heritage, with sponsorship and content opportunities for partners.
Prayer timesمواقيت الصلاة
Next adhan in Nairobi
العصر Asr at 14:15
00:00:00
Across Africaعبر أفريقيا
As the sun moves, the call to prayer moves with it, from city to city. The shadow is the night over Africa right now. Each light is one of 125 cities, and every line points to the Kaʿbah. Tap a city to see its times.
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From the Haramainمن الحرمين
Masjid al-Ḥarām in Makkah, the qiblah of every prayer above, and the Prophet’s Masjid in Madinah, through the Hijri year. Tap an arch to watch.
الكعبة
Seeing it, circling it, and at dusk
الأذان
The call to prayer over Masjid al-Ḥarām
حول الحرمين
Marwah, bakhūr and Madinah
رمضان
The month of fasting, and of Badr
الحج
Dhū al-Ḥijjah, from ʿArafah to Muzdalifah
The Kaʿbahالكعبة
Through the crowd on the Maṭāf among pilgrims in iḥrām, until the Kaʿbah comes into view
The Kaʿbahالكعبة
Worshippers stand at the upper floor’s edge, looking down on the Ṭawāf around the Kaʿbah
The Kaʿbahالكعبة
As the light fades, the Maṭāf fills with pilgrims in white beneath the lit Clock Tower
The Kaʿbahالكعبة
One āyah, Az-Zumar 39:53, recited by Sheikh Yasser Al-Dosari, imam of Masjid al-Ḥarām, over the courtyard beneath the Clock Tower and the Kaʿbah
The Adhanالأذان
The call to prayer rings out over the Haram, heard from an arch on its upper floor above the Kaʿbah
Around the Haramainحول الحرمين
The hill’s bare rock, kept inside the Masʿā. Pilgrims walk seven times between here and Ṣafā, as Hājar did
Around the Haramainحول الحرمين
Oud smoking in a gold mabkharah, the scent that welcomes guests and fills the masājid
Around the Haramainحول الحرمين
The great umbrellas of the Prophet’s Masjid open over its courtyards, shading the worshippers below
Ramaḍānرمضان
Badr was fought on 17 Ramaḍān, 2 AH. The battlefield, Jabal al-Malāʾikah, and the plaque naming the fourteen Companions martyred there, with Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly reciting
Hajjالحج
On foot in the crowds of Hajj, umbrellas raised against the sun, on to the next rite
Hajjالحج
Pilgrims crowd the slopes of Mount Arafat, Jabal al-Raḥmah, under the midday sun
Hajjالحج
Umbrellas and misting poles over a sea of white, on the day pilgrims spend in prayer at ʿArafah
Hajjالحج
After ʿArafah, pilgrims sleep under the open sky at Muzdalifah before the stoning at Minā
﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا﴾
“O you who believe, if a wrongdoer brings you news, verify it.”
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