omnianasa/The-Six-Hadeeth-Books-Dataset

Dataset Card for The Six Hadeeth Books Dataset

This dataset is a large-scale collection of ~24,000 images representing the primary six books of Hadeeth (Al-Kutub al-Sittah). It is specifically curated to support research in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and layout analysis for classical Arabic typography.

File Naming Convention

Each image follow a systematic naming pattern to help in programmatic data loading:

Pattern: {book_id}_{volume_number}_{page_number}.png

Example: bukhari_01_125.png

• bukhari: The author/collection name (e.g., Bukhari, Muslim, etc.).

• 01: The volume number (Mogalad).

  • Note: Files with 00 as the volume number indicate either a single-volume book or the primary representative cover found during the search.

• 125: The page number within that volume.

• Language(s) (NLP): Arabic (Classical/Religious)

• License: MIT

Directory	Collection Name	Status	Files Count
bukhari/	Sahih al-Bukhari	✅ Completed	5,745
muslim/	Sahih Muslim	✅ Completed	4,513
abodwd/	Sunan Abi Dawud	✅ Completed	4,873
nasaee/	Sunan al-Nasa'i	✅ Completed	4,142
tirmidhi/	Jami` al-Tirmidhi	✅ Completed	3,093
ibnmajah/	Sunan Ibn Majah	✅ Completed	2,302

Total Images: ~24,668 images.

Dataset Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset using the specific parquet conversion branch
dataset = load_dataset(
    "omnianasa/The-Six-Hadeeth-Books-Dataset",
    revision="refs/convert/parquet"
)

• Repository: https://huggingface.co/datasets/omnianasa/The-Six-Hadeeth-Books-Dataset

• Training and fine-tuning OCR models for Arabic religious texts.

• Not intended for modern standard Arabic handwriting recognition without additional fine-tuning.

• Should not be used for interpreting religious rulings without consulting specialized scholars.