Listen to Sunnah.com
Turn any sunnah.com hadith page into audio. Open the chapter or the full collection in Chrome, click CastReader, and listen with paragraph highlighting. Works for Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Nasai, Ibn Majah, Malik, Riyad as-Salihin, and the 40 Hadith of Nawawi.
Why Listen to Sunnah.com with CastReader?
Sunnah.com is the largest open hadith database online — Sahih Bukhari, Muslim, the four Sunan, and the canonical compilations of Riyad as-Salihin and 40 Hadith. CastReader reads the English translations with the paragraph you're hearing highlighted on screen.
Sahih Bukhari + Muslim
The Most-Studied Texts in Islam, Read Aloud
Sahih al-Bukhari has 7,563 hadith across 97 books. Sahih Muslim, 7,500. Reading them straight through is a lifetime project; listening makes the dailiness manageable. CastReader reads the chapter (kitab) or the individual hadith page in English, with the isnad (chain of narrators) and the matn (text) clearly distinguished by Sunnah.com's paragraph structure.
Riyad as-Salihin
Daily-Reading Compilations
Riyad as-Salihin and the 40 Hadith of Nawawi are the introductory and devotional compilations — short, thematic, designed to be read regularly. CastReader reads a chapter at a time. The 40 Hadith fits a single commute. Riyad as-Salihin's chapters are 5–15 minutes each at 1.2x.
Hadith Highlighting
Track Each Narration
Each hadith on Sunnah.com is its own paragraph block — narrator, chain, text, grading. CastReader highlights the current hadith as it reads, so you can follow the structure on screen — see which hadith is being read, the chain of transmission, and the grading classification (Sahih, Hasan, Da'if).
Clean Audio
Skips Reference Numbers, Arabic Inline, Sidebar Tools
Sunnah.com pages have hadith reference numbers (USC-MSA, In-book, English), the Arabic original above each English translation, and sidebar navigation between chapters. CastReader reads only the English translation and the narrator attribution — not the reference numbers, not the inline Arabic, not the navigation sidebar.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything about listening to Sunnah.com with CastReader
How do I listen to a hadith collection?
Open the chapter on sunnah.com in Chrome (e.g., Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Revelation). Click the CastReader icon. Audio starts at the first hadith and plays through to the end of the chapter. Use the chapter navigation to move to the next book.
Which collections are supported?
All collections sunnah.com hosts: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan an-Nasa'i, Sunan Abu Dawud, Jami at-Tirmidhi, Sunan Ibn Majah, Muwatta Malik, Riyad as-Salihin, Bulugh al-Maram, Mishkat al-Masabih, the 40 Hadith of Nawawi, the 40 Hadith Qudsi. Whatever the site renders as English text, CastReader reads.
Does it read Arabic?
It reads whatever the page displays. Sunnah.com shows Arabic above each English translation by default. The English-trained TTS will pronounce Arabic transliteration of names (Abu Hurairah, Aisha, Anas ibn Malik) reasonably well, but the inline Arabic block is skipped — we don't try to read original Arabic with an English voice. For Arabic recitation, use a dedicated Quran app.
What about the chain of narrators (isnad)?
Yes — sunnah.com includes the isnad as part of the hadith body. CastReader reads it. 'Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet, peace be upon him, said...' That structure carries through the audio. It's the canonical form, and listening makes the chain part of the rhythm rather than a footnote.
Can I listen to a whole book straight through?
Yes — at the chapter (kitab) level. Open the chapter index and click any chapter to load all its hadith on one page. Click CastReader and the chapter reads end to end. For full books like all of Bukhari, you'd navigate chapter by chapter.
Does it skip the reference numbers?
Yes. The 'Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari 1' / 'In-book reference: Book 1, Hadith 1' / 'USC-MSA web (English) reference: Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 1' triplet at the end of each hadith is skipped. The audio flows from one hadith to the next without the reference clutter.
What about commentary or fiqh discussion?
Sunnah.com is primarily the hadith text, not commentary — it's a source database, not a tafsir. For commentary on a specific hadith, you'd open a separate site. CastReader reads whatever page you're on, so any external commentary site that displays English text works the same way.
Is it free? Any limits?
Completely free. No account needed, no hadith limits, no ads. CastReader is a free browser extension for Chrome and Edge.
Start Listening to Sunnah.com
Completely free. No signup. No hadith limits. Install CastReader and open any chapter on sunnah.com.