# Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) (remote · bayan.alwa7i.com)

Hadith with grades and takhrij, Qur'an verses with tafsir, narrators and articles, in Arabic.

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `bayan.alwa7i.com`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan/bayan.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan/bayan)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.1`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 11/100
  - TLS not yet verified: we couldn't open a connection to check the certificate.
  - Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS not yet verified: we couldn't read the response headers to check for it.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 0/100
  - Transport check failed: declared streamable-http, but we couldn't connect to verify it.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 0/100
  - Schema not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's schema, or could read only part of its tool list.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 0/100
  - Tool coverage not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Tool Safety**: 0/100
  - Tool safety not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Capabilities**: 0/100
  - Capabilities not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's capabilities.

**Unverified: 5 categories.** Categories scored 0 because we could not verify them: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) MCP server?

Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) is a hosted endpoint at https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan 'https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan": {
      "url": "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan]
url = "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan --url 'https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan:
    url: "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan -t streamable-http -u 'https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 70, 0)

- [security regression] Endpoint reachability: reachable → unreachable
- [security regression] Stability: 0.13 → unverified
- [security regression] HSTS header: fail → unverified
- [security regression] Authorization: partial → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] TLS certificate: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Transport: pass → fail
- [functional regression] Capabilities: fail → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified

### 2026-11-04 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 68, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-31 (score 68)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search` (~77 tokens)

بحث في البيان

Search Bayan (Arabic Islamic encyclopedia) for verses, hadiths (Sabil al-Rashad, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim) and articles containing the given Arabic words. Returns a few of each with links to the site.

Input parameters:

- `q` (string, required): Arabic words, e.g. «إنما الأعمال بالنيات»

### `get_hadith` (~192 tokens)

حديث

A hadith by book and its number as cited (e.g. Sahih al-Bukhari 1 = «إنما الأعمال بالنيات»), or by `seq` from a search result or a site link: its text, grade, takhrij (where known), narrators, related Bayan articles and the link to its page.

Input parameters:

- `book` (string, required): Book slug: sahih-al-bukhari, sahih-muslim, sabil-al-rashad, sunan-abi-dawud, jami-al-tirmidhi, sunan-al-nasai, sunan-ibn-majah, musnad-ahmad, al-muwatta
- `number` (integer): The hadith's number in the book, as it is cited
- `seq` (integer): Alternatively, its place in the book (the `seq` of search results and site links)

### `get_verse` (~54 tokens)

آية وتفسيرها

A Qur'an verse by surah and ayah number, with passages of its tafsir from the classical books and the link to its page.

Input parameters:

- `ayah` (integer, required)
- `surah` (integer, required)

### `get_narrator` (~61 tokens)

راوٍ

A hadith narrator by name: the link to his page on Bayan (his grade in the books of jarh wa ta'dil) and related articles.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string, required): Arabic name, e.g. «الوليد بن مسلم»

### `list_articles` (~40 tokens)

مقالات البيان

Bayan's published articles and answers, newest first, with links (paged).

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional category slug
- `page` (integer)

### `get_article` (~33 tokens)

مقالة

One Bayan article by its slug (from list_articles or search): full text and link.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan/bayan#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 70
- 2026-11-04: 70
- 2026-11-03: 69
- 2026-11-02: 69
- 2026-11-01: 68
- 2026-10-31: 68

## Common questions

### What is the Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) MCP server?

Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.alwa7i.bayan/bayan. Hadith with grades and takhrij, Qur'an verses with tafsir, narrators and articles, in Arabic. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp).

### Is the Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) MCP server safe to use?

Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) scores 70 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) MCP server expose?

Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) exposes 6 tools: search, get_hadith, get_verse, get_narrator, list_articles, get_article. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 457 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) MCP server require authentication?

Its publisher declares no required credentials for Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic). We have not been able to confirm that against the live endpoint, and a server can require authorisation without declaring it here.

### Is the Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) MCP server still maintained?

Bayan — Islamic encyclopedia (Arabic) is still listed in the MCP registry, though our most recent checks did not reach this channel. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://bayan.alwa7i.com/mcp
- Website: https://bayan.alwa7i.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan/bayan.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan/bayan.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-alwa7i-bayan-bayan/bayan