Maktaba Shamila Urdu

Al-Madinah Islamic Research Center

About this app

ShamilaUrdu is an Islamic Digital Urdu Library with more than 600 authentic books. Each book is published on the app after being proof-read. ShamilaUrdu’s book view is the same as the printed published book.
This application is available on six platforms:
*Android
*iOS
*Windows
*MacOS
*Linux
*Web

Features
- Search the whole library for any given text
- Search Urdu as well as Arabic text
- Add Bookmarks/Tags to read it later
- Various setting for easy reading

Qur’an View
- Read Qur’an with Tarjuma (translation) and Tafseer (exegesis) in the same page with option to switch between the two
- Copy Qur’anic Arabic, Tarjuma or Tafseer

Hadith View
- Read/copy Hadith with Translation, Tashreeh (Explanation) and Takhreej (Source)
- Table of contents

Book View
- Read book with footnotes
- Table of contents
- Copy text from books

Qu’ran
-Quran-e-Kareem with 7 translations of renowned scholars:
-Tarjuma Junagharhi (Shaikh Maulana Muhammad Junagarhi)
-Tarjuma Taiseer-ul-Quran (Shaikh Maulana Abdul Rahman Kilani)
-Tarjuma Taeseer-ur-Rahman (Shaikh Muhammad Luqman Salafi)
-Tarjuma Tarjuman-ul-Quran (Shaikh Maulana Abul Kalam Azad)
-Tarjuma Siraj-ul-Bayan (Shaikh Muhammad Haneef Nadwi)
-Tarjuma Fahm-ul-Quran (Shaikh Miyan Muhammad Jameel)
-Tarjuma Abdul Salam Bhutwi (Shaikh Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhutwi)

Tafseer
-Tafseer Ahsan-ul-Bayan (Shaikh Hafiz Salah-ud-din Yousuf)
-Tafseer Taiseer-ul-Quran (Shaikh Maulana Abdul Rahman Kilani)
-Tafseer Taiseer-ur-Rahman (Shaikh Muhammad Luqman Salafi)
-Tafseer Tarjuman-ul-Quran (Shaikh Maulana Abul Kalam Azad)
-Tafseer Fahm-ul-Quran (Shaikh Miyan Muhammad Jameel)
-Tafseer Siraj-ul-Bayan (Shaikh Muhmmad Haneef Nadwi)
-Tafseer Ibn-e-Kathir (Shaikh Hafiz Ammad-ud-din Abu-al-Fida Ibn-e-Kathir)
-Tafseer Saadi (Shaikh Abdul Rahman bin Nasir Al-Sadi)
-Tafseer Sanai (Shaikh Maulana Sanaullah Amratsari)
-Tafseer Ashraf-ul-Hawashi (Shaikh Muhammad Abduhu Al-Falah)
-Tafseer Abdul Salam Bhutwi (Shaikh Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhutwi)
-Tafseer Tas'heel-ul-Bayan (Muhtarma Ume Imran Shakeela Bint e Miyan Fazal Hussain)

Hadith
-Sahih al-Bukhari
-Sahih Muslim
-Sunan Abu Dawood
-Sunan al-Tirmidhi
-Sunan al-Nasa'i
-Sunan ibn Majah
and 9 other Hadith books


Other Islamic Books
-Islamic Books on 26 different Categories which makes a total of 600+ books. These topics are covered and many moreL
- Qur’anic Studies (Quraniyat)
- Prophetic Traditions (Hadeesiyat)
- Islamic Creed (Aqeeda)
- Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh wa usool e fiqh)
- Commandments and Provisions (Ahkam o Masail)
- Islamic Rulings (Fatawa)
- Prophetic Biography (Seerat un Nabi)
- Social Reforms (Islah e Muashrah)
- Countering Temptation/Corruption (Rad e Fitan)

Ratings and reviews

Assalamu alaikum, JazakAllah khairan may Allah reward the team best in dunya & akhirah, Ameen. I've used Maktaba Shamila for 4-5 years, brilliant! Huge Islamic book collection, easy tafseer, share without ads/subscription—free & reliable. Top Urdu andArabic scholars' works. Category downloads (e.g. Quranic books) one click great! Wish for all books option. No dark mode, so I use Al Quran and Wahy apps for night reading. Please add dark mode it makes easier at night! Best app—barakAllah feekum!

The new version has a lot of issues. The searched content is not found while the circle keeps rotating. Some books are on display, others are missing. The problem with searching by words in the books is to slow that it starts to get worse. Hopefully this will be worked on. The first version was easy to find and use.

Excellent work. Zajakallah kheyra. It need some more features like zoom in zoom out for reading, book mark,one download folder for books and very important feature that is whole quran and Hadees books search engine. It has a very good search engine but that is limited to a Surah. We can't search a word or ayat in a whole Quran at once. Thanks.

What’s new

UI fixes for Android 15 compatibility