Qur'an and Hadith
A Brief Guide to the Qur'an in English
Translations or interpretations of the Qur'an vary. Yusuf Ali’s The Holy Qur'an and Pickthall’s The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an are in common use, but the English is archaic (thee, thou, etc.) The recent translation of Abdel Haleem is very readable. Other translations in modern English include Saheeh (also spelled Sahih) International, Khalidi, Shakir, Arberry, Jones, Droge, etc. The Study Qur'an edited by Nasr gives ready access to much traditional commentary, but the translation is archaic.
The suras (chapters) in the Qur'an are not ordered chronologically, but from longest to shortest, except for the first, which is a prayer.
Qur'an websites with translations, commentaries, etc.:
www.islamawakened.com: over 40 English translations including Abdel Haleem, Sahih International, Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, and Arberry.
quran.com: Sahih International and Arabic. Many other translations and languages through Settings after going past the home page. Searchable.
tanzil.net: multiple translations into multiple languages.
altafsir.com: Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, Arberry, etc. Al-Jalalayn commentary in English; numerous commentaries in Arabic.
quran.al-islam: Shakir, Yusuf Ali and Pickthall.
Quranic Arabic Corpus: University of Leeds project with full grammatical analysis (iʿrāb) of the Arabic Qur'an and other useful grammatical helps.
www.mosshaf.com: Arabic Qur'an resource site including commentaries of Ibn Kathir, Sayyid Qutb, the popular Egyptian commentator Sha'rawi (d. 1998), etc.
Al-Sha'rawi (d. 1998) Qur'an Interpretation, English translation (see pdfs at bottom of page)
quranx.com: Several commonly used translations and Sunni hadith collections
mobdii.com/Aljamaie.html: Extensive Arabic Qur'an commentary site.
Sunni Hadith Collections (English)
http://bewley.virtualave.net/: Bukhari, Malik and Riyad al-Salihin translated by Aisha Bewley (go to Hadith part way down page)
ahadith.co.uk: major Sunni collections in partial translation
www.kalamullah.com/hadith.html: pdfs of published English/Arabic Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, al-Nasa'i
Sunni Hadith Collections (Arabic)
sunnah.com: Arabic/English (without Ahmad)
dorar.net: Sunni hadith search
Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Musnad, ed. Shuʿayb al-Arnāʾūt, et al., 50 vols. (Beirut: Muʾassat al-risāla, 1413-1421/1993/2001). archive.org
The Best Editions of Arabic Books (including Hadith collections)
Christopher Melchert on How to Cite Hadith
Qur'an Verse Numbering in Older European Scholarship
European scholarship up to the 1970s followed the verse numbering of the Arabic edition of Gustav Flügel (d.1870). Click here for a conversion table from the Flügel verse numbering to the verse numbering of the 1923 Cairo edition of the Arabic Qur'an now used for scholarship. The accurate and eloquent translation of A. J. Arberry, The Koran Interpreted (1955), follows the Flügel numbering, but online versions of Arberry typically adjust the verse numbering to the present standard.