# Sahabah Habits

**Pick a companion. Get their habits, one day at a time.** An iPhone app that turns the
daily practices of twenty of the Prophet's companions into habits you can actually
follow.

- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6799609668
- Store name: Sahabah: Muslim Prayer Tracker
- Platform: iPhone, iOS 16.4 and later
- Price: free, with an optional Premium subscription
- Website: https://sahabah.scrollthequran.com

## What it is

The companions are remembered for what they repeated, not for what they said once. Abu
Bakr weighed his day before sleeping. Bilal renewed his ablution the moment it broke and
prayed two units after it, every time. Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf asked for nothing but
directions to the market. Pick one companion in the morning and build the day around
them.

## Features

### Twenty companions, one virtue each
Each companion stands for a single virtue and carries a biography written for this app.
The habits come out of that story, so you find out why you are doing a thing before you
do it.

### One hundred and forty habits, in two kinds
Daily routines are the concrete things a companion did every day, from performing wudu
on waking to sitting for a moment after prayer. Character habits come from a single
moment in their story: admit a mistake without adding "but", say the true thing that
costs you something, keep one small promise exactly on time. Every habit carries its
reference.

### Prayers and dhikr, free forever
Five prayers, each recorded in one tap: prayed, prayed in congregation, or missed. A
tasbih counter whose button is the whole lower half of the screen, so you can count
without looking, with a longer buzz at the target. Eight dhikr are included with their
references, among them the tasbih of Fatima, and you can add your own with any count.
Make-up prayers count down from a figure you enter yourself.

### Progress
Tick a habit and the ring moves. Keep a streak, and see your last thirty days at a
glance with prayers and make-up prayers counted separately. No feed, no notifications
you did not ask for, no one to compare yourself against.

## Three things it refuses to do

1. **It will not tell you when to pray.** The calculation methods disagree with one
   another by up to twenty minutes and the schools differ on asr, so the app asks what
   you did rather than announcing when to do it.
2. **It will not guess what you owe.** Make-up prayers count down from a figure you
   enter yourself. The app never estimates the number for you.
3. **It has nowhere to send your practice.** No account and no sign-up. Everything lives
   on the phone, and nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere for it to go.

## The twenty companions

| Companion | Virtue | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Bakr as-Siddiq | Loyalty | 573 to 634 |
| Umar ibn al-Khattab | Justice | 584 to 644 |
| Uthman ibn Affan | Generosity | 576 to 656 |
| Ali ibn Abi Talib | Knowledge | 600 to 661 |
| Bilal ibn Rabah | Patience | 580 to 640 |
| Khadijah bint Khuwaylid | Faithfulness | 555 to 619 |
| Salman al-Farisi | Seeking truth | 568 to 656 |
| Mus'ab ibn Umayr | Sacrifice | 594 to 625 |
| Aisha bint Abi Bakr | Teaching | 613 to 678 |
| Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf | Honest earning | 580 to 652 |
| Abu Dharr al-Ghifari | Simplicity | unknown to 652 |
| Abu Hurayrah | Determination to learn | 603 to 679 |
| Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah | Trustworthiness | 583 to 639 |
| Zayd ibn Thabit | Precision | 611 to 665 |
| Anas ibn Malik | Service | 612 to 712 |
| Mu'adh ibn Jabal | Sound judgement | 603 to 639 |
| Umm Salamah | Good counsel | 596 to 680 |
| Ja'far ibn Abi Talib | Compassion | 590 to 629 |
| Abdullah ibn Mas'ud | Resolve | 594 to 653 |
| Nusaybah bint Ka'b | Courage | unknown to 634 |

## Languages

Twenty one languages, with full right to left layout in Arabic and Urdu. The companion
biographies and their habits are written in all of them, not just the interface:
English, Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Indonesian, Malay, Hindi, Bengali, French, German,
Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Tamil and
Malayalam.

## Pricing

**Free, and it stays free.** Five prayers one tap each, the tasbih counter with eight
dhikr and their references, make-up prayers you count yourself, the streak, the ring and
your last thirty days. Fully offline, no account, no ads.

**Premium. A free trial, then monthly or yearly at the price shown in the App Store.**
The subscription is for the companions: twenty of them, a biography written for each,
one hundred and forty daily habits, every habit with its reference, all of it in twenty
one languages.

## About the content

The biographies and habits are educational material compiled from well known works of
sira and hadith. This is a tool for building habits, not a source of religious rulings,
and it is not a substitute for a qualified scholar. Corrections are welcome and go to
the front of the queue.

## Links

- Download: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6799609668
- Privacy policy: https://sahabah-habits.vercel.app/privacy.html
- Terms of service: https://sahabah-habits.vercel.app/terms.html
- Sister app, Scroll The Quran: https://scrollthequran.com